Past Eligible Books

Angharad Parry, Culture Burst, Young, Welsh and Poetic   (Poetry)
Nikita Lalwani, Gifted, Viking   (Novel)
Charlotte Greig, A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy, Serpent’s Tail   (Novel)
Rachel Trezise, Dial M for Merthyr: On Tour with Midasuno, Parthian   (Other)
Susanna Gregory, To Kill or Cure Sphere, The Little, Brown Book Group   (Novel)
Roy Lewis, Dragon Head, Constable and Robinson   (Novel)
Hilary Watson, Tracings, Young, Welsh and Poetic   (Poetry)

JULY 2007

Edward Marston, The Iron Horse, Allison & Busby   (Novel)
Penelope Evans, Saving Grace, Allison & Busby   (Novel)
Horatio Clare, Truant, John Murray   (Novel)
Anne Bennett, A Sister’s Promise, Harper   (Novel)
Mary-Ann Constantine, The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Forgery, University of Wales Press (  Literary Criticism)
Cathryn A. Charnell-White, Bardic Circles: National, Regional and Personal Identity in the Bardic Vision of Iolo Morganwg, University of Wales Press   (Literary Criticism)
Iris Gower, Bargain Bride, Bantam   (Novel)
Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels, Hodder & Stoughton   (Novel)
Chris Keil, Liminal, Alcemi   (Novel)
Gee Williams, Salvage, Alcemi   (Novel)
Dannie Abse, The Presence, Hutchinson   (Other)
Taff Lovesey, The Shimmering Gate: Book Two of the Portal Chronicles, BookSurge   (Novel)
Claire Peate, Big Cats and Kitten Heels, Honno   (Novel)
Joan Stockdale, My Side of Heaven, Paul Mould Publishing   (Novel)
Fiona Sampson, On Listening, Salt   (Literary Criticism)
Anthony Bushell, Poetry in a Provisional State, University of Wales Press   (Literary Criticism)
Rosie Harris, Sing for Your Supper, Arrow Books   (Novel)
Anwen Jones, National Theatres in Context: France, Germany, England and Wales, University of Wales Press   (Other) 

AUGUST 2007

Jacob Bush, An Assignation with Lady Truth: Poems and Short Stories, Meta One   (Other)
Viv Griffiths, Bemused and Mumbling, Pericles Press   (Poetry)
Viv Griffiths, Contrivers and Survivors, Tuba Press   (Poetry)
Tessa Hadley, The Master Bedroom, Jonathan Cape   (Novel)
Paul Groves, Country Boy, Starborn Books   (Other)
Peter Lord, Winifred Coombe Tennant: A Life Through Art, The National Library of Wales   (Other)
Hannah Jones, Diary of a Diet; A Little Book of Big, Accent   (Other)
Katy Cawkwell, The Story of Rhiannon, Parthian   (Short Fiction)
Joshua Hartzenberg,The Hybrid Induction, Joshua and Gerry’s Books   (Novel)   (Copies not submitted)

SEPTEMBER 2007

Zoë Brigley, The Secret, Bloodaxe   (Poetry)
Trisha Ashley, Lord Rayven’s Revenge, Robert Hale   (Novel)
Anne Stevenson, Stone Milk, Bloodaxe   (Poetry)
Rosie Harris, Waiting for Love, William Heinemann   (Novel)
Dick Francis, Dead Heat, Michael Joseph   (Novel)
Jackie Davies, About Elin, Honno   (Novel)
Mark Jenkins, Birthmarks, Infestedwaters   (Novel)
Jeff Collins, Rock Legends at Rockfield, University of Wales Press   (Other)
Bill Bailey, The War Cruise of the Weisbaden, United Writers Publications Ltd   (Novel)
Georgia Carys Williams, Brighter Than Green, Young, Welsh and Poetic   (Poetry)
Nia Pritchard, More Than Just a Hairdresser, Honno   (Novel)
Teleri Williams, In Sight of the Sea, Alun Books   (Poetry)
Chris Wigginton, Modernism from the Margins: The 1930s Poetry of Louis MacNiece and Dylan Thomas, University of Wales Press   (Literary Criticism)
Katharina Hall, Günter Grass’s ’Danzig Quintet’: Explorations in the Memory and History of the Nazi Era from Die Blechtrommel to Im Krebsgang, Peter Lang   (Literary Criticism)
Alan Perry, Uturns, Moonstone Press   (Short Fiction)
Angharad Parry, Quixotic, Young, Welsh and Poetic   (Poetry)
Martyn Sullivan, Cold Hills, Young, Welsh and Poetic   (Poetry)
Hilary Watson, The Night Raconteur, Young, Welsh and Poetic   (Poetry)
Katie Gramich, Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales: Land, Gender, Belonging, University of Wales Press   (Other)
Evan Gwyn Williams, Wynn: The Life of a Proletarian Pushed from Pillar to Post (1948-1976), Tuba Press   (Short Fiction)
David Alston, Into Painting: Brendan Stuart Burns, Seren   (Other)
Jeannie Johnson, Secret Sins, Severn House   (Novel)   (Copies not submitted)

OCTOBER 2007

Carys Davies, Some New Ambush, Salt   (Short Fiction)
Elizabeth Baines, Balancing on the Edge of the Wolrd, Salt   (Short Fiction)
Eluned Phillips, The Reluctant Redhead, Gomer   (Other)
Nia Wyn, Blue Sky July, Seren   (Other)
John Freeman, A Suite for Summer, Worple Press   (Poetry)
Michelle Williams-Huw, My Mummy Wears a Wig - Does Yours?, Accent   (Other)
Paul Rees, I Was Always Free: The Abolition of African Slavery, artiste paintre   (Poetry)
Brian John, Guardian Angel, Greencroft Books   (Novel)
Mike Jenkins, Walking on Waste, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch   (Poetry)
Paul Henry, Ingrid’s Husband, Seren   (Poetry)
Robert Minhinnick, Sea Holly, Seren   (Novel)
Ceri Thomas, Ernest Zobole: A Life in Art, Seren   (Other)
Barrie J. Davies, Subesque: The Art of Barrie J. Davies, Editions Martin   (Other)
Morine Krissdóttir, Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys, Duckworth   (Other)
Ken Follett, World Without End, Dutton Books   (Novel)
Glyn Rhys, Lost Head in Cors Caron, Y Lolfa   (Other)
Eirian Jones, The War of the Little Englishman, Y Lolfa   (Other)
Spencer Vignes, Lost in France: The Remarkable Life and Death of Leigh Richmond Roose, Football’s First Playboy, Tempus   (Other)

NOVEMBER 2007

Richard Margraaf Turley, The Fossil-Box, Cinnamon   (Poetry)
Alun Wyn Bevan, St. Helen’s Stories, Gomer   (Other)
James Marsden, All My Yesterdays, Athena Press   (Other)
David S. Thomas, Welsh Woven: A Novel, David S. Thomas   (Novel)
Anne Bennet, A Daughter’s Secret, HarperCollins   (Novel)
Robert Lewis, Swansea Terminal, Serpent’s Tail   (Novel)
Margaret D. Jones, It Came, To Pass: An Autobiography, Apecs Press   (Other)
Ieuan M. Pugh, The Day God Met Father and Other Fables, Athena Press   (Short Fiction)
Bill James, Pix, Constable & Robinson   (Novel)
Catherine George, The Millionaire’s Convenient Bride, Harlequin Mills & Boon   (Novel)
Matt Morden, Stumbles in the Clover, Snapshot Press   (Poetry)
Jenny Lewis, Fathom, Carcanet   (Poetry)
Grahame Davies, Real Wrexham, Seren   (Other)
Linden Peach, Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power, University of Wales Press   (Literary Criticism)
Liz Fielding, The Sheikh’s Unsuitable Bride, Harlequin Mills & Boon     (Novel)
Megan S. Lloyd, Speak it In Welsh: Wales and the Welsh Language in Shakespeare, Rowman & Littlefield   (Literary Criticism)   (Copies not submitted)
Katherine John, Black Daffodil, Accent   (Novel)   (Copies not submitted)

DECEMBER 2007

Jan Fortune-Wood, The Standing Ground, Cinnamon   (Novel)
Jackie Williamson, Cevamp, Mike and Me, Acorns Publishing   (Other)
Catrin Dafydd, Random Deaths and Custard, Gomer   (Novel)
Rosie Harris, Love Against All Odds, William Heinemann   (Novel) 
Dic Edwards, Walt Whitman and Other Poems, Oberon Books   (Poetry)

 

Wales Book of the Year 2007

JANUARY 2006 

J. Brookes, The Nylon Machines, The Profitless Press (Short Fiction)
Jan Fortune-Wood, Particles of Life, Bluechrome Publishing (Poetry)
Jan Fortune-Wood, A Good Life, Bluechrome Publishing (Novel)
Edward Marston, The Parliament House, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Nicholas Murray, The Narrators, Rack Press (Poetry)
Phillip Gross, The Egg of Zero, Bloodaxe (Poetry)
John Barnie, The Green Buoy, Rack Press (Poetry)
Christine Evans, Growth Rings, Seren (Poetry)
Daniel G. Williams, Ethnicity and Cultural Authority: From Arnold to Du Bois, Edinburgh University Press (Literary Criticism)
Susanna Gregory, A Conspiracy of Violence. Chaloner’s First Exploit in Restoration London, Little, Brown Book Group (Novel)

FEBRUARY 2006 

Jem Poster, Rifling Paradise, Sceptre (Novel)
Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Virago (Novel)
Liz Fielding, The Five-Year Baby Secret, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Conrad Allen, Murder on the Oceanic, St. Martin’s Minotaur (Novel)
Jeannie Johnson, Forgotten Faces, Orion (Novel)

MARCH 2006 

Amy Gdala, Heads We Win, Superscript (Other)
David Hodges, Watching for the Wind, The Abbey, Caldey Island (Poetry)
Catrin Collier, Tiger Bay Blues, Orion Publishing (Novel)
Christine Evans, Burning the Candle, Gomer (Poetry)
Nigel Wells, Walesland / Gwaliadir, Gomer (Poetry)
Tony Lewis-Jones, Anytime, Poetry Monthly Press (Poetry)
Horatio Clare, Running for the Hills, John Murray (Novel)
Alan Perry, Dreaming from North to South, Moonstone Press (Poetry)
Anita Flowers, Masking the Madness, House of Angels (Short Fiction)
Catherine George, The Millionaire’s Runaway Bride, Harlequin Mills & Boon (Novel)
Nigel Jenkins, Hotel Gwales, Gomer (Poetry)
Claire Peate, The Floristry Commission, Honno (Novel)
Ian Gregson, Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction, Continuum (Literary Criticism)
Pamela Evans, In the Dark Streets Shining, Headline (Novel)
Andrew McNeillie, Arkwork with Artwork, Clutag Press (Poetry)

APRIL 2006 

Dannie Abse, Running Late, Hutchinson (Poetry)
Barry Morgan, Strangely Orthodox. R.S Thomas and his Poetry of Faith, Gomer (Literary Criticism)
Angela V. John, War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century. The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson, I.B. Tauris (Other)
Adrian Rudesind, Bang-Up For Men. The Smell of Prison, Starborn Books (Novel)
Eigra-Lewis Roberts, Return Ticket, Gomer (Novel)
Julian Ruck, Ragged Cliffs, Isis (Novel)
Rosie Harris, Megan of Merseyside, William Heinemann (Novel)
Jim Perrin, The Climbing Essays, In Pinn (Other)
Tristan Hughes, Send My Cold Bones Home, Parthian (Novel)
Penelope Evans, My Perfect Silence, Allison & Busby (Novel)

MAY 2006 

Carol Lee, A Child Called Freedom, Century (Novel)
Phyllis M. Jones, The Crystal Moment, Kenwyn (Poetry)
Jeremy Hooker, The Cut of the Light: Poems 1965-2005, Enitharmon (Poetry)
David Llewellyn, Eleven, Seren (Other)
Rachel V. Knox, Girl on the Edge, Honno (Novel)
Chas Griffin, More Scenes From a Smallholding, Ebury (Other)
Patrick Hannan, When Arthur Met Maggie, Seren (Other)
Richard Collins, Overland, Seren (Novel)
Tony Brown, R.S. Thomas (Writers of Wales Series), University of Wales Press (Literary Criticism)
Bill James, Making Stuff Up, Severn House (Novel)
Jasmine Donahaye, Misappropriations, Parthian (Poetry)
Jo Verity, Think Like a Bee, Leaf Books (Short Fiction)

JUNE 2006 

Jan Morris, Hav, Faber and Faber (Novel)
Ian Gregson, Call Centre Love Song, Salt Publishing (Poetry)
Edward Marston, The Railway Viaduct, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Peter Thabit Jones, The Lizard Catchers, Cross-Cultural Communications (Poetry)
Byron Rogers, The Man Who Went Into The West. The Life of R.S Thomas, Aurum (Other)
James Eno, Seeking the Spoils, Hay Press (Novel)
L.M. Shakespeare, Malice, Stacey International (Novel)
Tom Anderson, Riding the Magic Carpet, Summersdale (Other)
Cynan Jones, The Long Dry, Parthian (Novel)
John Latham, Sailor Boy, The Collective (Poetry)
Susanna Gregory, The Tarnished Chalice, Little, Brown Book Group (Novel)
Roy Tomkinson, Of Boys, Men & Mountains, Y Lolfa (Other)
Geraint Jones, Landsong, Just Done Productions (Novel)

JULY 2006 

Andrew McNeillie, Slower, Carcanet (Poetry)
Dennis Lewis, The Corrupted, Accent (Novel)
John Greeves, Almost a Doppelganger, Palores (Poetry)
Lindsay Ashford, Death Studies, Honno (Novel)
Bill James, The Sixth Man, and Other Stories, Severn House (Short Fiction)
Iris Gower, Act of Love, Batam (Novel)
Ken Jones, The Parsley Bed, Pilgrim Press (Poetry)
Sally Spedding, Prey Silence, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Derec Jones, The Walker and Other Stories, Opening Chapter (Short Fiction)
Derec Jones, The Three Bears, Opening Chapter (Novel)

AUGUST 2006 

Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear, Hodder & Stoughton (Novel)
Osi Rhys Osmond, Carboniferous Collision: Josef Herman’s Epiphany in Ystradgynlais, Institute of Welsh Affairs (Other)
Rhys Hughes, At the Molehills of Madness, Pendragon Press (Short Fiction)
Brooke Biaz, Small Maps of the World, Parlor Press (Short Fiction)
Ann Pettitt, Walking to Greenham: How the Peace-Camp and the Cold War Ended, Honno (Other)
K.S. Davies, Of Mermaids and Moonfish: Feel the Deep, Read…, Young Welsh and Poetic (Poetry)
Edward Marston, The Princess of Denmark, St. Martin’s Minotaur (Novel)
Peter Walker, It’s Not Just Cricket, Fairfield Books (Other)
Michael Tod, God’s Elephants, Cadno Books (Novel)

SEPTEMBER 2006 

Dick Francis, Under Orders, Michael Joseph (Novel)
Rosie Harris, The Power of Dreams, William Heinemann (Novel)
Niall Griffiths, Runt, Jonathan Cape (Novel)
Hayley Long, Kilburn Hoodoo, Parthian (Novel)
J. Brookes, Nobby: Prince of Wales, The Profitless Press (Short Fiction)
Tony Millin, Freeloading Cymru, Gomer (Other)
Rosamund McCullain, The Dispossessed, Chipmunka Publishing (Novel)
George Brinley Evans, Where the Flying Fishes Play, Parthian (Other)
Lara Clough, Facing into the West Wind, Honno (Novel)
Maggie Harris, From Berbice to Broadstairs, Mango Publishing (Poetry)

OCTOBER 2006 

C.J. Emerson, Objects of Desire, Allison & Busby (Novel)
Howard Marks, Senor Nice, Harvill Secker (Other)
Barbara Hardy, George Eliot: A Critics Biography, Continuum (Literary Criticism)
Lynne Barrett-Lee, Barefoot in the Dark, Accent (Novel)
Tom Davies, The Tyranny of Ghosts, Berwyn Mountain Press (Novel)
christopher brooke, & the concept of zero, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Clare E. Potter, Spilling Histories, Cinnamon (Poetry)
Landeg White, Arab Work, Parthian (Poetry)
Deborah Kay Davies, Things you Think I Don’t Know, Parthian (Poetry)
Ruby Holmes, Accidental Recklessness, Chipmunka Publishing (Other)
Anthony Bunko, Boy, Girl, Fruitcake, Flower, A. Bunko (Novel)
Brian Lee, Cardiff’s Vanished Docklands, Sutton (Other)
Chris Walley, The Dark Foundations, Tyndale House Publishers (Novel)
Lloyd Jones, Mr Cassini, Seren (Novel)
Gareth Ellis, Parang, Y Lolfa (Novel)
Ted Rushgrove, Wagons Roll, Robert Hale (Novel)

NOVEMBER 2006 

Richard Thomas, Taking Stock: Life as a Country Vet, Gomer (Other)
Tiffany Atkinson, Kink and Particle, Seren (Poetry)
Andrew Gallimore, Occupation: Prizefighter. The Freddie Welsh Story, Seren (Other)
Jamie Owen, More Welsh Journeys, Gomer (Other)
Ivy Alvarez, Mortal, Red Morning Press (Poetry)

DECEMBER 2006 

Barbara Hardy, The Yellow Carpet, Shoestring Press (Poetry)
Merryn Williams, The First Wife’s Tale, Shoestring Press (Poetry)
Bill James, Letters from Carthage, Severn House (Novel)
Philip Gross, The Abstract Garden, The Old Stile Press (Poetry)

 

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