Literature Wales Newsletter
Past Eligible Books
Wales Book of the Year 2011
January
Belinda Bauer, Blacklands, Transworld (Novel)
M.J. Trow, Maxwell's Retirement, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Carole Llewellyn, Rhiannon, Robert Hale (Novel)
Gwyneth Lewis, A Hospital Odyssey, Bloodaxe (Poetry)
Anne Bennett, The Child Left Behind, HarperCollins (Novel)
Tiffany Murray, Diamond Star Halo, Portobello Books (Novel)
Greg Heywood, iReckon, KMVF Media (Novel)
Stephen Knight, Merlin: Knowledge and Power Through the Ages, Cornell University Press (Literary Criticism)
Adam Czerniawksi, Firing the Canon: Essays Mainly on Poetry, Salt (Literary Criticism)
Judith Arnopp, Waving at Trains, Lapwing (Poetry)
Maggie Harris, After a Visit to a Botanical Garden, Cane Arrow Press (Poetry)
Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey, Hodder & Stoughton (Novel)
Bel Roberts, A Discerning Woman's Guide to Manhunting, Diadem Books (Novel)
Simon Beaufort, Deadly Inheritance, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Roy Lewis, Design for Murder, Robert Hale (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
February
Landeg White, Livingstone's Funeral, Cinnamon (Novel)
Stevie Davies, Into Suez, Parthian (Novel)
Phil Carradice, Herbert Williams (Writers of Wales Series), University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Dannie Abse, Two for Joy: Scenes from Married Life, Hutchinson (Poetry)
Andrew McNeillie, In Mortal Memory, Carcanet (Poetry)
Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow, Jonathan Cape (Novel)
Leslie Kenton, Love Affair, Vermilion (Other)
Elizabeth Hopkin, Then the Sirens Have Sounded, Gorfannon (Other) (Copies not submitted)
March
Rhys Hughes, Twisthorn Bellow, Atomic Fez Publishing (Novel)
John Llewellyn Probert, Wicked Delights, Atomic Fez Publishing (Short Fiction)
John Barnie, The Forest Under the Sea, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Paula Brackston, Lamp Black, Wolf Grey, Snowbooks (Novel)
Robert Minhinnick, Fairground Music, Gomer (Other)
Oliver Bullough, Let our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus, Penguin (Other)
Rosie Harris, Whispers of Love, Arrow Books (Novel)
Rachel Trezise, Loose Connections, Accent (Short Fiction)
Trisha Ashley, Chocolate Wishes, HarperCollins (Novel)
Scott Mariani, The Shadow Project, HarperCollins (Novel)
Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World, Gollancz (Novel)
Sam Adams, Prichard's Nose, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Richard Lewis, Out of the Valley: The Autobiography of a Media Man, Y Lolfa (Other)
Patrick McGuinness, Jilted City, Carcanet (Poetry)
Pamela Evans, Harvest Nights, Headline (Novel)
Edward Storey, Almost a Chime-Child, Raven Books (Poetry)
Joanna Davies, Freshers, Honno (Novel)
Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Canongate (Other)
Graeme Harper, On Creative Writing (New Writing Viewpoints), Multilingual Matters (Literary Criticism)
Malcolm Lewis, The Hard Man, Mulfran Press (Poetry)
Roy Morgans, The Sychbant, Mulfran Press (Poetry)
David Jones, A World Within the World, Original Writing (Poetry)
Martin Locock, Carefully Chosen Words, Carreg Ffylfan Press (Poetry)
Anthony Bloor, The Big Wheel, Simon Siabod Publishing (Novel)
Bernard Knight, Where Death Delights, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
April
Peter Luther, Precious Cargo, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Rachel Trezise, Sixteen Shades of Crazy, Blue Door (Novel)
Gillian Morgan, Salt Blue, Honno (Novel)
Tony Bianchi, Bumping, Alcemi (Novel)
Nigel Humphreys, The Flavour of Parallel, Arbor Vitae Press (Poetry)
Rhys Trimble, Keinc, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Sarah Jackman, Summer Circles, Simon & Schuster (Novel)
John Goodby, Wine Night White, Hafan Books (Poetry)
Richard Gwyn, Sad Giraffe Café, Arc Publications (Poetry)
Daniel Huws, Memories of Ted Hughes 1952-1963, Five Leaves Publications (Other)
Antony Woodward, The Garden in the Clouds: From Derelict Smallholding to Mountain Paradise, HarperCollins (Other)
Jo Carnegie, Wild Things, Transworld (Novel)
A.J. Desmond, Big Bang, Adventure Books of Seattle (Novel)
Bernard Knight, A Plague of Heretics, Pocket Books (Novel)
Nick Fisk, Departure Lounge 25, Pure-Poetry (Poetry) (Copies not submitted)
May
Judith Barrow, Pattern of Shadows, Honno (Novel)
Pascale Petit, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo, Seren (Poetry)
Elaine Walker, The Horses, Cinnamon (Novel)
Trezza Azzopardi, The Song House, Picador (Novel)
Merryn Williams, Effie: A Victorian Scandal, Book Guild Publishing (Other)
Huw Lawrence, Always the Love of Someone, Alcemi (Short Fiction)
Irene E. Thomas, A Childhood in Ebbw Vale: A Poetry Anthology, Old Bakehouse Publications (Poetry)
Roy Noble, Noble Ways: Laybys in My Life, Accent (Other)
Thomas Emson, Zombie Britannica, Snowbooks (Novel)
Liz Fielding, A Wedding at Leopard Tree Lodge, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
JimEriddles, An Engineer Rhymes, JimEriddles (Poetry)
Fiona Sampson, Rough Music, Carcanet (Poetry)
Nick Fisk, Departure Lounge 58, Square Books (Poetry)
Gladys Mary Coles, Clay, Flambard Press (Novel)
Joe Dunthorne, Faber New Poets 5: Joe Dunthorne, Faber and Faber (Poetry)
Harold Carter, Against the Odds: The Survival of Welsh Identity, Institute of Welsh Affairs (Other)
Dave Lewis, Urban Birdsong, Ponty Press (Poetry) (Copies not submitted)
Iris Gower, House of Shadows, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
June
Clare Dudman, A Place of Meadows and Tall Trees, Seren (Novel)
Carol Rumens, De Chirico's Threads, Seren (Poetry)
Lyndon Davies, Shield, Parthian (Poetry)
John Harrison, Cloud Road: A Journey Through the Inca Heartland, Parthian (Other)
Christine Stovell, Turning the Tide, Choc Lit (Novel)
Rhys Trimble, Kapita, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press (Poetry)
Edward Marston, Railway to the Grave, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Scott Mariani, Uprising, HarperCollins (Novel)
Susanna Gregory, The Killer of Pilgrims, Sphere (Novel)
Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg, Sphere (Novel)
M. Stanford-Smith, The Great Lie: A Nicholas Talbot Adventure, Honno (Novel)
Tim Lebbon, The Thief of Broken Toys, ChiZine Publications (Novel)
Jamie Owen, Around Wales by B-Roads and Byways, Ebury Press (Other)
Bryce Thomas, Rhamin, Thomas Hamilton & Co. (Novel)
Tom Anderson, Grey Skies, Green Waves, Summersdale (Other)
Catherine George, The Power of the Legendary Greek, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Thomas T. Moynihan, To Win Against the Odds, Y Lolfa (Novel)
John Goodby, Illennium, Shearsman (Poetry)
John Greenridge, Zondor the Great (Or, Real Travels Along the Time Dimension), AuthorHouse (Novel)
David Woolley, Pursued by a Bear, Headland Publications (Poetry)
July
S.M. Owen-Jones, First Impressions and Afterthoughts: Writers and Artists of the Modernist Movement, Book Guild Publishing (Literary Criticism)
Karen Jankulak, Geoffrey of Monmouth, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Rhys Thomas, On the Third Day, Doubleday (Novel)
Lorraine Jenkin, Cold Enough to Freeze Cows, Honno (Novel)
Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability, Faber and Faber (Poetry)
Barbara Erskine, Time's Legacy, HarperCollins (Novel)
Ffion Mair Jones, 'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Ceri Norman, Celtic Maidens, Melrose Books (Novel)
Jim Perrin, West: A Journey Through the Landscape of Loss, Atlantic Books (Other)
Robert Lewis, Bank of the Black Sheep, Serpent's Tail (Novel)
Simone Mansell Broome, Cardiff Bay Lunch, Lapwing (Poetry)
Simon Thirsk, Not Quite White, Gomer (Novel)
Bronwen Hosie, Robert Burns: Bard of Scotland, Argyll Publishing (Other)
Liz Fielding, SOS: Convenient Husband Required, Harlequinn Mills & Boon (Novel)
Anita Arcari, The Hokey Pokey Man, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Simon Beaufort, The Bloodstained Throne, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
August
Sue Moules, The Earth Singing, Lapwing (Poetry)
Jamie Medhurst, A History of Independent Television in Wales, University of Wales Press (Other)
Bob Lock, The Empathy Effect, Screaming Dreams (Novel)
Julian Ruck, An Equal Judge, Dinefwr (Novel)
Darren Floyd, Match Day, Hirst Publishing (Novel)
Paul D.E. Mitchell, Changeling, Wuggles (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Daniel G. Williams, Aneurin Bevan and Paul Robeson - Socialism, Class and Identity, Institute of Welsh Affairs (Other) (Copies not submitted)
September
Hannah Evans, Scrums and Bananas, Wuggles (Novel)
Susie Wild, The Art of Contraception, Parthian (Short Fiction)
Tyler Keevil, Fireball, Parthian (Novel)
Wil Gritten, Letting Go, Parthian (Other)
J.P. Smythe, Hereditation, Parthian (Novel)
Dan Healy, Facsimiles, Cinnamon (Poetry)
John L. Williams, Miss Shirley Bassey, Quercus (Other)
D.E. Oprava, Sole, Blackheath Books (Poetry)
Sam Stone, Demon Dance, Murky Depths (Novel)
Deborah Fisher, Royal Wales, University of Wales Press (Other)
John Greeves, Cuba Libre: From Revolution to Hip-Hop Rock, Vanguard Press (Poetry)
Ken Follett, Fall of Giants, Macmillan (Novel)
David Crystal, Begat: The King James Bible & the English Language, Oxford University Press (Other
October
Bethan Darwin, Two Times Twenty, Honno (Novel)
Zillah Bethell, Les Temps des Cerises, Seren (Novel)
Gwyneth Lewis, The Meat Tree, Seren (Novel)
Niall Griffiths, Ronnie's Dream, Seren (Novel)
Mike Jenkins, Moor Music, Seren (Poetry)
M. Wynn Thomas, In the Shadow of the Pulpit: Literature and Nonconformist Wales, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Anne Bennett, Keep the Home Fires Burning, HarperCollins (Novel)
Romy Wood, Bamboo Grove, Alcemi (Novel)
Geoffrey Hill, Oraclau/Oracles, Clutag Press (Poetry)
Penny Simpson, The Deer Wedding, Alcemi (Novel)
Trisha Ashley, Twelve Days of Christmas, Avon (Novel)
Philip Palmer, Version 43, Orbit (Novel)
Ian Davidson, Partly in Riga and Other Poems, Shearsman Books (Poetry)
Jenny Sullivan, Silver Fox - It Begins, Wuggles (Novel)
Alison Bielski, One of Our Skylarks, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Alan Wall, Doctor Placebo, Shearsman (Poetry)
Dai Smith, In the Frame, Parthian (Other)
Boyd Clack, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Parthian (Other)
Tishani Doshi, The Pleasure Seekers, Bloomsbury (Novel)
John Barnie, Fire Drill, Seren (Other)
Nicholas Murray, Real Bloomsbury, Seren (Other)
Patrick Sims-Williams, Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature, Oxford University Press (Literary Criticism)
Iain Sinclair, Postcards from the 7th Floor, Pighog Press (Poetry)
November
Mansel Jones, Tangwstyl, Goylake Publishing (Novel)
Teleri Bevan, The Ladies of Blaenwern, Y Lolfa (Other)
Mal Pope, Old Enough to Know Better, Y Lolfa (Other)
Robert Crompton, Bunderlin, Solidus (Novel)
P.J. Vanston, Crump, Matador (Novel)
Harry Guest, Some Times, Anvil Press Poetry (Poetry)
Ian Davidson, Radical Spaces of Poetry, Palgrave Macmillan (Poetry)
Fritz O'Skennick, Who is John Doe?, lulu.com (Novel)
Fritz O'Skennick, Of Darkness and Light, lulu.com (Other)
Fritz O'Skennick, Dark Confessions, lulu.com (Novel)
Fritz O'Skennick, Fear the Reaper, lulu.com (Novel)
Fritz O'Skennick, Of Darkness Verses the Light, lulu.com (Other)
P.J. Davy, Village Fate, Bookline & Thinker Ltd (Novel)
Sally Roberts Jones, Notes for a Life, Headland Publications (Poetry)
Rosie Harris, Ambitious Love, Arrow Books (Novel)
Bill James, I am Gold, Constable & Robinson (Novel)
Vanessa Gebbie, Storm Warning, Salt (Short Fiction)
Liz Fielding, Mistletoe and the Lost Stiletto, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Thomas Emson, Krimson, Snowbooks (Novel)
Edward Marston, Under Siege, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Simon Beaufort, A Dead Man's Secret, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Meic Stephens, A Bard for Highgrove - A Likely Story, Cambria Books (Novel) (Copies not submitted
December
Jean Gill, San Fairy Anne, lulu.com (Novel)
Roy Tomkinson, Accidental People, Globe Publications Ltd (Novel)
Roy Tomkinson, Neononckle, Globe Publications Ltd (Novel)
Rob Mimpriss, For His Warriors, Gwasg y Bwthyn (Short Fiction)
Oliver Reynolds, Hodge, Areté Books (Poetry)
Bernard Knight, According to the Evidence, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Wales Book of the Year 2010
JANUARY 2009
John Powell Ward, The Last Green Year, Cinnamon (Poetry)
John Gimblett, Monkey, Cinnamon (Poetry)
John Powell Ward, Variations on Four Places, Rack Press (Poetry)
Richard Marggraf Turley, Wan-Hu’s Flying Chair, Salt (Poetry)
Paula Brackston, Book of Shadows: A Tale of Spells and Secrecy, Snowbooks (Novel)
Phillip B. Zarrilli, Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski, Routledge (Other)
Scott Mariani, The Doomsday Prophecy, Avon (Novel)
Hywel Teifi Edwards, The National Pageant of Wales, Gomer (Other)
Jo Verity, Sweets from Morocco, Honno (Novel)
Harry Guest, Comparisons & Conversions, Shearsman Books (Poetry)
Judith Maro, The Stoat, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Lyndon Harris, My Public Relationships, Marylyn Publishers (Other)
Catrin Collier, Black Eyed Devils, Accent (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Emma Smith, Masculinity in Welsh Writing in English: The Cases of Lewis Jones, Glyn Jones, Gwyn Thomas and Ron Berry, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller (Literary Criticism) (Copies not submitted)
FEBRUARY 2009
Anna Wigley, Waking in Winter, Gomer (Poetry)
M.J. Trow, Maxwell’s Revenge, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Glenda Beagan, The Great Master of Revenge, Seren (Short Fiction)
Ruth Bidgood, Time Being, Seren (Poetry)
Liz Fielding, Secret Baby, Surprise Parents, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
James Marsden, Genetics of the Gods, Athena Press (Novel)
Sarah Jackman, Never Stop Looking, Simon & Schuster (Novel)
Paul Crosthwaite, Trauma, Postmodernism, and the Aftermath of World War II, Palgrave Macmillan (Literary Criticism)
Rhys Thomas, The Suicide Club, Doubleday (Novel)
Kitty Sewell, Bloodprint, Simon & Schuster (Novel)
Stephanie Dummler, The Dovecote, Onlywomen Press (Novel)
Ron Watkins, Sharpshooters in the Hills, Robert Hale (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
MARCH 2009
Damian Walford Davies, Suit of Lights, Seren (Poetry)
Bethan Darwin, Back Home, Honno (Novel)
Claire Peate, HeadHunters, Honno (Novel)
Petina Strohmer, Truly Blue: A Rock & Roll Parable, Leaf Books (Novel)
Dave Lewis, Layer Cake, Ponty Press (Poetry)
Kevin Mills, Fool, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Helena Grice, Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing, Taylor & Francis (Literary Criticism)
Anni Wilton-Jones, Winter Whiting, Stonebridge Publications (Poetry)
Rosie Harris, Love Changes Everything, Arrow Books (Novel)
Emyr Humphreys, The Woman at the Window, Seren (Short Fiction)
Peter Griffiths, Tongue Tied, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Mari Strachan, The Earth Hums in B Flat, Canongate (Novel)
Paul D.E. Mitchell, Fulcrum (Path Transcendent trilogy), Paul D.E. Mitchell (Novel)
Paul D.E. Mitchell, Lever (Path Transcendent trilogy), Paul D.E. Mitchell (Novel)
Paul D.E. Mitchell, Rotation (Path Transcendent trilogy), Paul D.E. Mitchell (Novel)
Roy Tomkinson, The Tour, Strategic Publications (Novel)
Thelma Hancock, Tree Dimensional, Vanguard Press (Novel)
Thomas Emson, Skarlet, Snowbooks (Novel)
Roger Granelli, Dead Pretty, Accent (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Ken Jones, Stone Leeks, Pilgrim Press (Other) (Copies not submitted)
Jackie Williamson, Memory Seeds, Acorns Publishing (Poetry) (Copies not submitted)
Geoff Jones, Poetry Mine, Caneri Press (Poetry) (Copies not submitted)
Rhys Hughes, Mister Gum, Dog Horn Press (Short Fiction) (Copies not submitted)
APRIL 2009
Jean Gill, How Blue is my Valley, lulu.com (Novel)
David Hodges, Echoes from a Far Shore, The Abbey, Caldey Island (Poetry)
Marianne Jones, Too Blue for Logic, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Alan Bilton, The Sleepwalkers’ Ball, Alcemi (Novel)
Horatio Clare, A Single Swallow: Following an Epic Journey from South Africa to South Wales, Chatto & Windus (Other)
Hywel Francis, History on our Side: Wales and the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike, Iconau (Other)
Pamela Evans, The Tideway Girls, Headline (Novel)
Tim Lebbon, Hellboy: The Fire Wolves, Dark Horse Books (Novel)
Ambrose Conway, Beyond the Reso, Kings Hart Books (Novel)
Keri Finlayson, Rooms, Shearsman Books (Poetry)
Siân James, Return to Hendre Ddu, Seren (Novel)
Anthony Bunko, Demons and Cocktails: My Life with the Stereophonics, John Blake (Other)
Trisha Ashley, Wedding Tiers, HarperCollins (Novel)
Kevin Mills, The Prodigal Sign, A Parable of Criticism, Sussex Academic Press (Literary Criticism)
Gillian Clarke, A Recipe for Water, Carcanet (Poetry)
Nikolai Tolstoy, The Oldest British Prose Literature: The Compilation of the Four Branches of the 'Mabinogi', The Edwin Mellen Press (Literary Criticism)
Sheila Morgan, Olicka Bolicka and Pink Bluebells, Dinas (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Vivian Griffiths, Monty Python: The Ideology of the Grotesque, Pericles Publications (Other) (Copies not submitted)
MAY 2009
Peter Dale, Local Habitation, Anvil Press Poetry (Poetry)
Mike Parker, Map Addict: A Tale of Obsession, Fudge & The Ordnance Survey, Collins (Other)
Ann Drysdale, Discussing Wittgenstein, Cinnamon (Other)
Terri Wiltshire, Carry Me Home, Macmillan (Novel)
Penelope Evans, The Weight of Water, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Tim Lebbon, The Island, Allison & Busby (Novel)
David Greenslade, Zeus Amoeba, Two Rivers Press (Poetry)
Iain Sinclair, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report, Hamish Hamilton (Other)
Jayne Joso, Soothing Music for Stray Cats, Alcemi (Novel)
Peter J. Conradi, At the Bright Helm of God: Radnorshire Pastoral, Seren (Other)
Patrick Hannan, A Useful Fiction, Seren (Other)
Catherine George, The Italian Count's Defiant Bride, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Robert King, Haunted Neath, The History Press (Other)
Marilyn Jenkins, The Legacy of Alice Waters, YouWriteOn.com (Novel)
Paul Burston, The Gay Divorcee, Sphere (Novel)
David Crystal, Just a Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language, Taylor & Francis (Other)
Tom Anderson, Chasing Dean: Surfing America's Hurricane States, Summersdale (Other)
John Barnie, Tales of the Shopocracy: A Portrait of my Father and his World, Gomer (Other)
Paul Ferris, Gower in History: Myth, People, Landscape, Armanaleg Books (Other)
Richard F. Jones, Dancing with the Devil, AuthorHouse (Novel)
Meirion Jordan, Strangers Hall, Gatehouse Press (Poetry)
Roy le Coeur, New Shoes, Legend Press (Novel)
Iris Gower, Bomber's Moon, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Roy le Coeur, Spartacus Prophecy, Legend Press (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Eva Goldsworthy, Across the Severn - The Migration of a Welsh Family, Y Lolfa (Other) (Copies not submitted)
JUNE 2009
Andrew McNeillie, Once, Seren (Other)
Byron Rogers, Me: The Authorised Biography, Aurum (Other)
Shelagh Weeks, Up Close, Cinnamon (Novel)
Gemma June Howell, Inside the Treacle Well, Hafan Books (Short Fiction)
Alhaji Sheku Kamara, Peace, Hafan Books (Poetry)
Aimé Kongolo, Reciprocities / Réciprocités, Hafan Books (Poetry)
Steve Short, The Green Grounds, Hafan Books (Poetry)
Susanna Gregory, A Vein of Deceit, Sphere (Novel)
Glen Peters, Mrs D'Silva's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta, Parthian (Novel)
Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago (Novel)
Margaret Redfern, Flint, Honno (Novel)
Zillah Bethell, Seahorses Are Real, Seren (Novel)
Malcolm Pryce, From Aberystwyth with Love, Bloomsbury (Novel)
David Lloyd, Tales from an Aber Lad, Y Lolfa (Other) (Copies not submitted)
David Jones, Alpha & Omega, Original Writing (Poetry) (Copies not submitted)
JULY 2009
Harri Garrod Roberts, Embodying Identity: Representations of the Body in Welsh Literature, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Huw Edwin Osborne, Rhys Davies (Writers of Wales), University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Geraint Ellis, Reaching Out Reaching In, Geraint Ellis (Novel)
Roger Frederick, Flesh and Wood, Interstate Fiction (Novel)
Diane Green, Emyr Humphreys: A Postcolonial Novelist? (Writing Wales in English), University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Angela Gardner, Views of the Hudson, Shearsman (Poetry)
Kate Furnivall, The Concubine's Secret, Sphere (Novel)
David Melding, Will Britain Survive Beyond 2020?, Institute of Welsh Affairs (Other)
Andrew Breeze, The Origins of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, Gracewing (Literary Criticism)
Edward Marston, The Silver Locomotive Mystery, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Peter Lord, The Meaning of Pictures: Images of Personal, Social and Political Identity, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Ric Hool, No Nothing, The Collective Press (Poetry)
Lorraine Jenkin, Eating Blackbirds, Honno (Novel)
Scott Mariani, The Heretic's Treasure, HarperCollins (Novel)
Andrew Barlow, The Bear Pit, Arena Books (Novel)
Katherine John, The Destruction of Evidence, Accent (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
AUGUST 2009
J.D. Davies, Gentleman Captain, Old Street Publishing (Novel)
Chris Thomas, More Tales of Pelican Square, Wuggles Publishing (Short Fiction)
Priscilla Masters, Grave Stones, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Richard Jay Parker, Stop Me, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Sam Stone, Futile Flame, Murky Depths (Novel)
Bernard Knight, Crowner Royal, Simon & Schuster (Novel)
P.J. Davy, Nutters, Snowbooks (Novel)
Rosie Harris, The Quality of Love, Arrow Books (Novel)
SEPTEMBER 2009
Holly Howitt, The Schoolboy, Cinnamon (Short Fiction)
Sue Moules, In the Green Seascape, Lapwing Publications (Poetry)
Byron Beynon, Nocturne in Blue, Lapwing Publications (Poetry)
Thelma Hancock, Diverse Distress, Vanguard Press (Novel)
Liz Fielding, Christmas Angel for the Billionaire, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Christian Saunders, Apartment 14F: An Oriental Ghost Story, Damnation Books (Novel)
Jasmine Donahaye, Self-Portrait as Ruth, Salt (Poetry)
Landeg White, Singing Bass, Parthian (Poetry)
Bill James, Full of Money, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Roy Lewis, Shadowmaker, Constable (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
David Crystal, Walking English, Overlook Press (Other) (Copies not submitted)
OCTOBER 2009
Philip Gross, The Water Table, Bloodaxe (Poetry)
Jeff Collins, Stuart Cable: From Cwmaman to the Stereophonics and Beyond, University of Wales Press (Other)
Jeni Williams, Being the Famous Ones, Parthian (Poetry)
Elizabeth Baines, Too Many Magpies, Salt (Novel)
Catherine George, The Mistress of His Manor, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Liz Fielding, Her Desert Dream, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Nigel Jenkins, Gower, Gomer (Other)
Frieda Hughes, The Book of Mirrors, Bloodaxe (Poetry)
Philip Palmer, Red Claw, Orbit (Novel)
Don Llewellyn, The Kissing Gate, Dinefwr Publishers (Novel)
Brenda Jones, A Welsh Woman's View, Shrewsbury Books (Poetry)
Phyllis M. Jones, New People in an Old World, Kenwyn Books (Short Fiction)
Russell Celyn Jones, The Ninth Wave, Seren (Short Fiction)
Owen Sheers, White Raven, Seren (Short Fiction)
Edward Marston, Fire and Sword, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Liz Whittaker, A Court in Splendour, Llanerch Press (Other)
Gareth Wheatley, On an Offa Bus, Bridge Books (Other)
Angela V. John, Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955, Manchester University Press (Other)
Colin Thomas, Dreaming a City: From Wales to Ukraine, Y Lolfa (Other)
Stefan Jakubowski, Once Upon a Tyme, Zygmunt Stanley (Novel)
Marianne Jones, Ring of Stones, Cinnamon (Short Fiction)
Philip Gross, I Spy Pinhole Eye, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Roger Lewis, Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as it is Lived, Short Books (Other)
Anna Davis, The Jewel Box, Black Swan (Novel)
NOVEMBER 2009
John Evans, The Acid Real, Underground Press (Other)
Brian John, Sacrifice, Greencroft Books (Novel)
Matthew David Scott, The Ground Remembers, Parthian (Novel)
Alun Trevor, The Songbird is Singing, Parthian (Other)
Bill James, Hotbed, Constable & Robinson (Novel)
Nia Pritchard, More Than Just a Wedding, Honno (Novel)
Lynda Nash, Ashes of a Valleys Childhood, Mulfran Press (Poetry)
John Llewellyn Probert, Against the Darkness, Screaming Dreams (Novel)
Barry Pilton, Land of my Neighbours, Bloomsbury (Novel)
Jan Morris, Contact!: Brief Encounters in a Lifetime of Travel, Faber and Faber (Other)
Stuart Warner, Echoes of the First Song: Poems and Inspirations, Antony Rowe Publishing (Poetry)
Ann Drysdale, Quaintness and Other Offences, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Kathy Miles, The Shadow House, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Jon Gower, Real Llanelli, Seren (Other)
Jessica Cox, Brief Lives: Charlotte Brontë, Hesperus Press (Literary Criticism) (Copies not submitted)
DECEMBER 2009
Paul D.E. Mitchell, Goddess, Wuggles Publishing (Novel)
Chris Kinsey, Cure for a Crooked Smile, Ragged Raven Press (Poetry)
Richard Marggraf Turley, Bright Stars: John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture, Liverpool University Press (Literary Criticism)
Susanna Gregory, A Murder on London Bridge, Sphere (Novel)
John D. Rogers, The Prince and the Patriot, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Thomas Emson, Prey, Snowbooks (Novel)
Helen Spring, Memories of the Curlew, YouWriteOn (Novel)
Bruce French, LoveSexMoneyDeath, Vanguard Press (Novel)
Mike Thomas, Pocket Notebook, William Heinemann (Novel)
Wales Book of the Year 2009
JANUARY 2008
Lewis Davies, Love and Other Possibilities, Parthian (Short Fiction)
David Williams, Desert England, Apex Publishing (Novel)
Susanna Gregory, The Butcher of Smithfield, Sphere (Novel)
Sarah Broughton, Other Useful Numbers, Parthian (Novel)
Tom Green, Concepts of Arthur, Tempus (Literary Criticism)
Steve Griffiths, Landing, Rack Press (Poetry)
Byron Beynon, Cuffs, Rack Press (Poetry)
Edward Marston, Soldier of Fortune, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Seán Burke, The Ethics of Writing: Authorship and Legacy in Plate and Nietzsche, Edinburgh University Press (Literary Criticism)
Dora Beale Polk, The Will, Orlandon Press (Poetry)
Philip Palmer, Debatable Space, Orbit Books (Novel)
FEBRUARY 2008
Aled Islwyn, Out With It, Parthian (Short Fiction)
Gee Williams, Blood etc, Parthian (Short Fiction)
Tia Jones, On Open Ground, Gomer (Novel)
Lindsay Ashford, The Killer Inside, Honno (Novel)
Liz Fielding, The Bride’s Baby, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Joe Dunthorne, Submarine, Hamish Hamilton (Novel)
Geraint Talfan Davies, At Arm’s Length, Seren (Other)
Nicholas Murray, So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (Other)
Niall Griffiths, Real Aberystwyth, Seren (Other)
Ian Skidmore, Kyffin: A Figure in a Welsh Landscape, Seren (Other)
J.C. Evans, A Spent Season, Morfa Publications (Poetry)
Allan Bush, Last Bird Singing, Seren (Novel)
Gareth Calway, River Deep, Mountain High, Bluechrome (Novel)
Colin Jackson, Quick Reads: Life’s New Hurdles, Accent (Other) (Copies not submitted)
Sally Spedding, Strangers Waiting, Bluechrome (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Shane K.P. O’Neill, Bound by Blood, Dracula Chronicles Ltd (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
MARCH 2008
Katie Thear, Hearing the Grass Grow, BroadLeys Publishing (Novel)
Trisha Ashley, Sowing Secrets, Avon (Novel)
Matthew Francis, Mandeville, Faber and Faber (Poetry)
Scott Mariani, The Alchemist’s Secret, HarperCollins (Novel)
Paul Groves, Qwerty, Seren (Poetry)
Phyllis M. Jones, A Life That I Did Not Know, Kenwyn (Other)
Christopher D. Evans, Omega, PS Publishing (Novel)
Eifion Jenkins, If You Fall I Will Catch You, Seren (Novel)
Roger Granelli, Risk, Accent (Novel)
Georgia Carys Williams, In Flight, Young Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Lizzy Green, In the Orange, Young Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Petra Page, Ghost Writer, Young Welsh and Poetic (Short Fiction)
M.J. Trow, Maxwell’s Chain, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Thomas Dilworth, Reading David Jones, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Simon Lewis, Bad Traffic, Sort Of Books (Novel)
E.A. Rees, A Life of Guto’r Glyn, Y Lolfa (Other)
Nigel Jenkins, Real Swansea, Seren (Other)
Ronald Rees, The Black Mystery, Y Lolfa (Other)
Jane Blank, The Geometry of Love, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Julie McGowan, Just One More Summer, Sunpenny Publishing (Novel)
Pamela Evans, Under An Amber Sky, Headline (Novel)
Herbert Williams, The Marionettes, Cinnamon (Novel)
Scott Quinnell, Quick Reads: The Hardest Test, Accent (Other)
Brooke Biaz, Moon Dance, Parlor Press (Novel)
Roger Granelli, Quick Reads: Losing It, Accent Press (Short Fiction) (Copies not submitted)
Meg Kingston, Manuscript and Other Stories, Jay Walker Writing (Short Fiction) (Copies not submitted)
APRIL 2008
Shelagh Watkins, The Power of Persuasion, Mandinam Press (Novel)
Nicholas Murray, A Corkscrew is Most Useful, Little, Brown (Other)
Carole Seymour-Jones, A Dangerous Liaison, Century (Other)
Peter Read, Read Only: A Collection of Poems, Pinewood Press (Poetry)
Carolyn Lewis, Missing Nancy, Accent Press (Novel)
Lorraine Jenkin, Chocolate Mousse and Two Spoons, Honno (Novel)
Daniel Healy, Winter Lines, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Lloyd Rees, Simple Arithmetic, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Mike Jenkins, The Fugitive Three, Cinnamon (Novel)
Rosie Harris, A Dream of Love, Arrow (Novel)
Grey Gowrie, Third Day: New and Selected Poems, Carcanet (Poetry)
Kate North, Eva Shell, Cinnamon (Novel)
John Pook, Needing the Experience, Lower House Books (Poetry)
MAY 2008
Jim Bowen, Just Another Mzungu Passing By, Parthian (Novel)
Priscilla Masters, The Watchful Eye, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Lloyd Robson, Oh Dad! A Search for Robert Mitchum, Parthian (Other)
Penny Simpson, The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum, Alcemi (Novel)
Tristan Hughes, Revenant, Picador (Novel)
Babs Horton, Recipes for Cherubs, Pocket Books (Novel)
Patience Agbabi, Bloodshot Monochrome, Canongate Books (Poetry)
Catherine George, The Millionaire’s Rebellious Mistress, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Ben Osborne, The Hyperion Legacy, Troubador (Novel)
Jan Price, A Better Class of Doggerel, Peevish Bee (Poetry)
Christine Evans, Bardsey, Gomer (Other)
Ffion Hague, The Pain and the Privilege, Harper Collins (Other)
Gillian Clarke, At the Source, Carcanet (Other)
Kelly Grovier, A Lens in the Palm, Carcanet (Poetry)
David Llewellyn, Everything is Sinister, Seren (Novel)
Dai Smith, Raymond Williams: A Warrior’s Tale, Parthian (Other)
C.M. Hopkin, The Sensualist, Gofannon (Novel)
Tony Conran, What Brings You Here So Late?, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch (Poetry)
Catherine Belsey, Shakespeare in Theory and Practice, Edinburgh University Press (Literary Criticism)
Jeannie Johnson, Bitter Harvest, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Trisha Ashley, Happy Endings, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Roy Lewis, Guardian of the Dead, Allison & Busby (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Rhys Hughes, The Less Lonely Planet, Humdrumming (Other) (Copies not submitted)
JUNE 2008
Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Not In These Shoes, Picador (Poetry)
Susanna Gregory, The Devil’s Disciples, Sphere (Novel)
Holly Howitt, Dinner Time, Cinnamon (Short Fiction)
Edward Marston, Murder on the Brighton Express, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Terry Cooper, Kangazang, Screaming Dreams (Novel)
Stephen John, Wimmin Like Rhian, Trafford (Novel)
Rhys Hughes, The Postmodern Mariner, Screaming Dreams (Novel)
Chris Walley, The Infinite Day, Tyndale (Novel)
R.D. Cook, Between Two Seas, Seren (Novel)
Louise Walsh, Fighting Pretty, Seren (Novel)
Carol Rumens, Blind Spots, Seren (Poetry)
Anne Cluysenaar, Batu-Angas: Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace, Seren (Poetry)
Stefan Jakubowski, Miscreation, Zygmunt Stanley (Novel)
Simon Mundy, Silent Movements, Hay Press (Novel)
John Goodby, uncaged sea, Waterloo Press (Poetry)
Ruth Fowler, No Man’s Land, Viking (Other)
John Llewellyn Probert, Coffin Nails, Ash-Tree Press (Novel)
Catrin Collier, Magda’s Daughter, Orion (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Catrin Collier, A Well-Deserved Murder, Accent (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
JULY 2008
Josie Henley-Einion, Silence, Legend Press (Novel)
Zoë Skoulding, Remains of a Future City, Seren (Poetry)
Barbara Erskine, The Warrior’s Princess, HarperCollins (Novel)
Kelly Grovier, The Gaol: The Story of Newgate, London’s Most Notorious Prison, John Murray (Other)
Alan Wall, Sylvie’s Riddle, Quartet (Novel)
James Hawes, Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life, St. Martin’s Press (Other)
Robert Minhinnick, King Driftwood, Carcanet (Poetry)
Barbara Hardy, Dickens and Creativity, Continuum (Literary Criticism)
Richard Jones, A Flight Home, AuthorHouse (Novel)
Michael Evans, The Children of Reckoning: The First Book in the Apocalyte Series, AuthorHouse (Novel)
Jane Cartwright, Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales, University of Wales Press (Other)
Justin D. Edwards, Postcolonial Literature, Palgrave Macmillan (Literary Criticism)
Diana Gruffydd Williams, My People’s Pilgrimage, Y Lolfa (Other)
Chris Thomas, Gildas 1: Here and Soon, Wuggles Publishing (Novel)
Gwen Madoc, Keeping Secrets, Severn House (Copies not submitted)
AUGUST 2008
Tom Davies, Testament, Berwyn Mountain Press (Other)
Jan Fortune-Wood, Stale Bread and Miracles, Cinnamon Press (Novel)
Bill James, In the Absence of Iles, Constable & Robinson (Novel)
Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress, Tindal Street Press (Novel)
Grahame Lloyd, Six of the Best: Cricket’s Most Famous Over, Celluloid Ltd (Other)
James Hawes, My Little Armalite, Jonathan Cape (Novel)
Sarah Corbett, Other Beasts, Seren (Poetry)
Brian Jenkins, Mill Road, Arima Publishing (Other)
Pascale Petit, The Treekeeper’s Tale, Seren (Poetry)
James Hawes, Excavating Kafka, Quercus (Other)
Niall Griffiths, Real Liverpool, Seren (Other)
John L. Williams, Michael X, Century (Other)
Bronwen Hosie, Growing up in a Welsh Valley: Sunshine on the Mayfield, The History Press (Other)
Tony Lewis-Jones, Izumi, Poetry Monthly Press (Poetry)
Gillian Fenwick, Traveling Genius: The Writing Life of Jan Morris, University of South Carolina Press (Other) (Copies not submitted)
SEPTEMBER 2008
Joseph Clancy, Passing Through, Headland Publications (Poetry)
Robert Shail, Stanley Baker: A Life in Film, University of Wales Press (Other)
Meic Stephens, Yeah, Dai Dando, Cinnamon Press (Novel)
Jonny Collider, Petrol Horses, Lulu.com (Novel)
Stephen May, TAG, Cinnamon (Novel)
Phil Maillard, Sweet Dust & Growling Lambs, Shearsman (Poetry)
Matthew Jarvis, Welsh Environments in Contemporary Poetry, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Meirion Jordan, Moonrise, Seren (Poetry)
Rowan Williams, Headwaters, Perpetua Press (Poetry)
Sarah Prescott, Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Edward Tudor, A Message Delayed, AuthorHouse (Novel)
Roy Tomkinson, Anger Child, Globe Publications Ltd (Novel)
Liz Fielding, Wedded in a Whirlwind, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Duncan Bush, Now All The Rage, Colophon Books (Novel)
David Jones, In Perpetuum, Original Writing (Poetry)
Ceri Sullivan, The Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert and Vaughan, Oxford University Press (Literary Criticism)
Eileen D. James, Disconnected Jottings, Vanguard Press (Short Fiction)
Rowan Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, Continuum (Literary Criticism)
Kevin Sinnott, Behind the Canvas, Seren (Other)
Rosie Harris, A Love Like Ours, Arrow Books (Novel)
Rhian Edwards, Parade the Fib, tall-lighthouse (Poetry)
Elisabeth Luard, My Life as a Wife: Love, Liquor and what to do about the Other Women, Timewell Press (Other)
Julian Ruck, Inheritance Lost, Isis Publishing (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
OCTOBER 2008
Sheenagh Pugh, Long Haul Travellers, Seren (Poetry)
Paul Griffiths, Let Me Tell You, Reality Street Editions (Novel)
Fflur Dafydd, Twenty Thousand Saints, Alcemi (Novel)
Jeb Loy Nichols, The Untogether, Alcemi (Short Fiction)
Alan Wall, Alexander Pope at Twickenham, Shearsman (Poetry)
Steve Griffiths, An Elusive State: Entering Al-Chwm, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Elizabeth Ashworth, Flashes and Specks, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Martin Daws, Skin Tight the Sidewalk, Martin Daws (Poetry)
Peter Luther, The Mourning Vessels, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Margaret Isaac, Lake Stories of Wales: Shadows in the Waters, Apecs Press (Short Fiction)
Lloyd Jones, My First Colouring Book, Seren (Short Fiction)
Trisha Ashley, A Winter’s Tale, HarperCollins (Novel)
Scott Mariani, The Mozart Conspiracy, HarperCollins (Novel)
Meic Stephens, Necrologies: A Book of Welsh Obituaries, Seren (Other)
John Sam Jones, Crawling Through Thorns, Parthian (Novel)
Julia Gregson, East of the Sun, Orion (Novel)
Caroline Ross, The War Before Mine, Honno (Novel)
Tim Killick, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the Tale, Ashgate Publishing (Literary Criticism)
Deborah Kay Davies, Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful, Parthian (Short Fiction)
K.S. Davies, A Flower Girl’s Tears, Young, Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Lizzy Green, Promise, Young, Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Georgia Carys Williams, Breaking the Shell, Young, Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Stewart Mottram, Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature, D.S. Brewer (Literary Criticism) (Copies not submitted)
Maggie Hampton, Living Where the Nights Jive, Parthian (Short Fiction)
NOVEMBER 2008
Hywel Dix, After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Ruth Bidgood, Hearing Voices, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Patrick Jones, Darkness is Where the Stars Are, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Mary-Ann Constantine, The Breathing, Planet (Short Fiction)
Kate Furnivall, Under a Blood Red Sky, Sphere (Novel)
David N. Thomas, Fatal Neglect: Who Killed Dylan Thomas?, Seren (Other)
Edward Marston, Drums of War, Allison & Busby (Novel)
J. Brookes, The Dresden Cantata, Square Books (Poetry)
John Humphries, Freedom Fighters: Wales’ Forgotten ’War’, 1963-1993, University of Wales Press (Other)
Chrissy Derbyshire, Mysteries, Awen Publications (Other)
Dimitra Fimi, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits, Palgrave Macmillan (Literary Criticism)
John Lee Grenfell, Not From Books, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Mario Basini, Real Merthyr, Seren (Other)
Carole Llewellyn, Megan, Robert Hale (Novel)
Joan Stockdale, Angharad’s Dream, Paul Mould (Novel)
Vanessa Gebbie, Words from a Glass Bubble, Salt Publishing (Short Fiction)
Ron Watkins, Return of the Bounty Hunter, Robert Hale (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
David Franklin, English Toss on Planet Andong, Baby Ice Dog Press (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Aneurin Gareth Thomas, Excess Baggage, lulu.com (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
DECEMBER 2008
Susanna Gregory, The Westminster Poisoner, Sphere (Novel)
Anne Bennett, A Mother’s Spirit, HarperCollins (Novel)
Rupert Shortt, Rowan’s Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop, Hodder & Stoughton (Other)
Priscilla Masters, Buried in Clay, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Richard Porch, Swansea’s Heritage, The History Press (Other)
Richard Beard, Becoming Drusilla: One Life, Two Friends, Three Genders, Harvill Secker (Other)
Ian Gregson, How We Met, Salt Publishing (Poetry)
Alex Keegan, Ballistics, Salt Publishing (Short Fiction)
Bill James, Off-Street Parking, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
Wales Book of the Year 2008
JANUARY 2007
Dai Vaughan, Inconsequences, Rack Press (Poetry)
Tessa Hadley, Sunstroke and Other Stories, Jonathan Cape (Short Fiction)
Ray French, Going Under, Harvill Secker (Novel)
Ian Davidson, As If Only, Shearsman Books (Poetry)
Freda Davies, A Portion for Foxes, Caeriw Publishing (Novel)
Raymond Humphreys, Checkpoint, Institutul European (Short Fiction)
Sarah Jackman, The Other Lover, Simon & Schuster (Novel)
Katherine John, Amber Knight, Accent (Novel)
John Evans, Mike and Jan, John and Janet, Book Guild Publishing (Novel)
Susanna Gregory, Blood on the Strand, Little, Brown Book Group (Novel)
Edward Marston, The Painted Lady, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Geraint H. Jenkins, A Concise History of Wales, Cambridge University Press (Other)
Sally Spedding, Come and Be Killed, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
FEBRUARY 2007
Mercer Simpson, Early Departures, Late Arrivals, Rockingham Press (Poetry)
Lyndon Davies, Hyphasis, Parthian (Poetry)
Graham Hartill, A Winged Head, Parthian (Poetry)
David Greenslade, Adventure Holiday, Parthian (Poetry)
Andrew Gallimore, Bloody Canvas: The Mike McTigue Story, Mercier Press (Other)
Anna Davis, The Shoe Queen, Doubleday (Novel)
Richard Gwyn, Deep Hanging Out, Snowbooks (Novel)
Kitty Harri, Hector’s Talent for Miracles, Honno (Novel)
Peter Luther, Dark Covenant, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Conrad Allen, Murder on the Celtic, St. Martin’s Minotaur (Novel)
John Barnie, Trouble in Heaven, Gomer (Poetry)
Maria Donovan, Pumping Up Napoleon, Seren (Short Fiction)
Mike Parker, Neighbours from Hell? English Attitudes to the Welsh, Y Lolfa (Other)
Catherine George, The Rich Man’s Bride, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Niall Griffiths, Bring it Back Home, Accent (Short Fiction)
Lindsay Ashford, The Rubber Woman, Accent (Short Fiction)
Stevie Davies, The Eyrie, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Novel)
Sam Adams, Missed Chances, Y Lolfa (Poetry)
Roger Turvey, Llywelyn the Great, Gomer (Other)
Peter N. Williams, Whistling in the Soup; Not So-Tall Tales of Growing Up in Troubled Times, Outskirts Press (Other)
Grahame Davies, Everything Must Change, Seren (Novel)
Idris Caffrey, Relatively Unscathed, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Tanni Grey Thompson, Aim High, Accent (Other)
MARCH 2007
Scott Mariani, The Fulcanelli Manuscript, Robert Hale (Novel)
Peter Gordon Williams, Provoke the Silent Dust, Vanguard Press (Novel)
Judy Corbett, Envy, Ebury (Novel)
Bob Lock, Flames of Herakleitos, Screaming Dreams (Novel)
Fiona Owen, Going Gentle, Gomer (Poetry)
Bethan Phillips, The Lovers’ Graves; True Tales that Shocked Wales, Gomer (Other)
Carol Rumens, Self into Song: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures, Bloodaxe (Literary Criticism)
Liz Fielding, The Secret Life of Lady Gabriella, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Viv Griffiths, Nocturne for a Jazz Guitar, Pericles Publications (Poetry)
Andrew McNeillie, Ian Niall: Part of his Life, Clutag Press (Other)
Trezza Azzopardi, Winterton Blue, Picador (Novel)
Dan Rhodes, Gold, Canongate (Novel)
Martyn Sullivan, Cinder Flames and Alley Ways, Young, Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Pamela Evans, When the Boys Come Home, Headline (Novel)
Jeannie Johnson, When the Wild Thyme Blows, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
APRIL 2007
Malcolm Pryce, Don’t Cry For Me Aberystwyth, Bloomsbury (Novel)
Kelvin Hayes, Symposium of Empty Envelopes; Poems 1992/2007, Equivocal (Poetry)
Helen Aileen Davies, The Emperor and the Butterfly, Troubador (Novel)
Ann Drysdale, Three-three, two-two, five-six, Cinnamon (Other)
Marilyn Jenkins, Close Distances, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Aneurin Gareth Thomas, Luggage from Elsewhere, Parthian (Novel)
Stefan Jakubowski, Dead Peculiar, Zygmunt Stanley (Novel)
Nick Fisk, 5x4x5x4+1, Pure Poetry (Poetry)
Scott Mariani, How to Write a Thriller, How To Books (Other)
Priscilla Masters, Slipknot, Allison & Busby (Novel)
M.J. Trow, Maxwell’s Point, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Trisha Ashley, Sweet Nothings, Severn House (Novel)
Sharon Morris, False Spring, Enitharmon (Poetry)
K.S. Davies, Landscapes and Hearts, Young, Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Jon Manchip White, Solo Goya: Goya and the Duchess of Alba at Sanlúcar, Iris Press (Novel)
Linda Davies, Final Settlement, Severn House (Novel) (Copies not submitted)
MAY 2007
Patrick McGuinness, 19th Century Blues, Smith/Doorstep Books (Poetry)
Jan Fortune-Wood, Dear Ceridwen, Cinnamon Press (Novel)
Jeremy Hooker, Upstate, Shearsman Books (Other)
Peter George, Undreamed Shores, AuthorHouse (Novel)
Herbert Williams, Wrestling in Mud, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Phyllis M. Jones, No Harbour Lights: Life in a Wartime Hospital, Kenwyn Publishers (Other)
Ian Gregson, The New Poetry in Wales, University of Wales Press (Other)
Alan Perry, Days of the Comet, Moonstone Press (Short Fiction)
Jo Verity, Bells, Honno (Novel)
Alan Wall, Writing Fiction, HarperCollins (Other)
Imogen Rhia Herrad, The Woman who Loved an Octopus, and Other Saints’ Tales, Seren (Short Fiction)
Margaret Topping, Supernatural Proust: Myth and Metaphor in A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu, University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Jan Carew, Flowers of the Forest, Pegasus (Novel)
Peter Ho Davies, The Welsh Girl, Sceptre (Novel)
Barry Pilton, The Town with no Twin, Bloomsbury (Novel)
Catrin Collier, One Last Summer, Orion (Novel)
Tony Layton, Castles in the Sand, Lulu.com (Novel)
Tom Bullough, The Claude Glass, Sort of Books (Novel)
JUNE 2007
Susan Richardson, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, Cinnamon Press (Poetry)
Lynne Barrett-Lee, Out on a Limb, Accent Press (Novel)
Susanna Gregory, To Kill or Cure, Little, Brown Book Group (Novel)
Kate Furnivall, The Russian Concubine, Sphere (Novel)
Liz Fielding, Reunited: Marriage in a Million, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Owen Sheers, Resistance, Faber and Faber (Novel)
Jane Aaron, Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity, University of Wales Press (Other)
Ian Davidson, Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry, Palgrave Macmillan (Other)
Viv Griffiths, Escaping the Shadow of the Gods, Pericles Press (Poetry)
Tony Curtis, Crossing Over, Seren (Poetry)
Viv Griffiths, Scribblings of a Swansea Jack, Pericles Press (Poetry)
Fiona Sampson, Common Prayer, Carcanet Press (Poetry)
Nigel Jenkins, O For a Gun, Planet (Poetry)
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