<p><div>A falling tortoise is a bizarre way to meet one's end, but it is typical of Sheenagh Pugh's wry humour that it finds a place in her poetry. The more humorous aspects of mortality and human frailty receive the same alert consideration as sombre subjects such as dictatorship, torture, the Dieppe raid and pollution. Whether describing the significance of the maximum break in snooker or exploring the mind of a Nazi, Sheenagh pugh's individual voice resonates through her crafted poetry.<br /></div></p>

Beware Falling Tortoises

Literature & Fiction

Pugh, Sheenagh

Poetry

Seren

The appearance of My People in 1915 caused a literary sensation. In England critics praised it as a work of art comparable with Zola and new writers such as Joyce.

My People

Evans, Caradoc

Contemporary

The Green Bridge: Stories from Wales

<p>This anthology of Welsh short stories offers a chronological overview of the form in Wales during the last century. Twenty-five English-language writers provide one story each to produce an entertaining and varied anthology. Tales of horror, satire, humor, war, the aristocracy, love, madness, indus</p>

Parenting & Relationships

On Becoming a Fish

Emily Hinshelwood

More than 50 years ago, the Beatles started a revolution, transforming the face of music, youth, and popular culture. This collection of poems responds to the Beatles' music as well as to their historical influence—both in the 1960s and today. With contributions by a myriad of poets young and old—including Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Elaine Feinstein, Peter Finch, Adrian Henry, Philip Larkin, Roddy Lumsden, Lachlan MacKinnon, Roger McGough, Sheenagh Pugh, Jeremy Reed, and Carol Rumens—this book is a tribute to the Beatles’ creativity and capacity to influence successive generations.

Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After the Beatles

God Loves You

Maris, Kathryn

She Inserts the Key

Burton, Marianne

In the spring of 1940, Elsa Jones finds herself lonely and homesick in a changing Hong Kong as war threatens. Bomb shelters spring up and soldiers appear on the streets. When Hong Kong falls to the Japanese, Elsa and her husband Tommy are captured and interned in a makeshift camp on the southern side of the island, where, along with the rest of the colonial elite, they struggle to survive in hostile surroundings. Several years later, they return to Wales with their six-year-old daughter Mari, who has only ever known life in the camp. A story of war told from the edges, this book interweaves four separate accounts—Elsa, her Chinese servant Lin, Tommy, and Mari—to relate the intimate havoc wrought by military conflict on individual lives.

The Rice Paper Diaries

Rhydderch, Francesca

Genre Fiction

In the late 1990s, Hilary Menos made the unusual move from Camden Town to a Devon farmhouse, two miles to the nearest village. Over the next ten years, she and her family turned the hundred acres into an organic farm, complete with a herd of Red Devon cows. This collection reveals her experiences as a 'blow in' from upcountry, moving into a tight-knit rural community and witnessing first-hand the conflict between farming tradition and modern commerce.

Red Devon

Menos, Hilary

<p>In Port au Prince, Haiti, the police roam the streets and no one is safe. Fignolé, a musician and political radical, is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colorful bustle, urban deprivation, and political tension of the city; when they eventually locate him, they will have found more about themselves than they wanted to know. This story explores one day and three lives in a city where love is hard to find, life is cheap, and death is all too familiar. It is the tense, passionate, and vividly told story of small victories of hope in the face of a seemingly impossible fight against a monolithic regime.</p>

The Colour of Dawn

Lahens, Yanick

Layland, Alison

Literary

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