Gwen Davies - Böcker

A dark and chilling collection of tales to make the blood run cold, Sing Sorrow Sorrow features short stories from contemporary Welsh writers.

RACHEL TREZISE grew up listening to the rock stars of the 1980s and harbouring an ambition to write a warts ‘n’ all rockumentary. This is the story of her quest for the perfect band – and the band she found. At a rock gig in a Rhondda pub, she discovered MIDASUNO; a gaggle of Merthyr kids with a ton of conviction and a penchant for neck breaking guitar riffs. She booked a back seat on the tour bus they call Black Betty to track the band as they razed the British toilet circuit... Part reportage, part social history and part memoir: DIAL M FOR MERTHYR records the struggles of a band from the wrong side of the tracks trying to stay afloat in an ever changing musical and social climate.

Female-led literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times in the literary essay, and illustrative panache overall. Originating in Wales and with international ambition. Here we bring together the best of NWR's online essays and review-essays within a showcase of new work previewing forthcoming titles from some of this country's key English-language publishers. Plus, there's new work from Phuoc Tien, Susan Karen Burton, Jayne Joso and Deidre Brennan, and 'Hi-Mawari', the lost Welsh story of Lafcadio Hearn (alias Koizumi Yakumo).

In different guises, the Plankton Collector visits members of a family torn apart by grief and regret. He teaches them the difference between the discarded weight of unhappy memories and the lightness borne by happiness recalled. A lyrical, haunting combination of nature writing and magic realism, about time, healing, trauma and memory.