Literature Wales Newsletter
Publishers
Parthian Books
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| Address: The Old Surgery, Napier Street, Cardigan, Ceredigion, SA43 1ED | |
| Tel: 01239 612059 | |
| Email: parthianbooks@yahoo.co.uk | |
| Website:www.parthianbooks.co.uk (Library of Wales www.libraryofwales.org) | |
| Distributor: In Wales: Welsh Books Council. Outside Wales: Central Books | |
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Number of titles published annually (on average) in English for adults: 20 |
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| Date company established: 1993 | |
| Staff employed (full-time equivalents): 4 | |
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Contact: Publishing Director: Richard Davies, The Old Surgery, Napier Street, Cardigan, SA43 1ED Tel. 01239 612059 parthianbooks@yahoo.co.uk Editor: International Project Editor: |
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| Types of books/CD-Roms published: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Art | |
| Advice to writers concerning submission of manuscripts: An idea of the type of fiction we are interested in always helps. | |
| The publisher seeks new authors particularly in the following categories: Fiction | |
| Average time taken to respond to unsolicited manuscripts: Two months | |
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Any other information: We publish a range of new fiction, poetry and drama, reflected in forthcoming books which include the latest in the Bright Young Things series, Ten of the Best, a poetry anthology by five young Welsh writers; a debut novel by American-born Swansea-based poet and novelist Christien Gholson called A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind; the latest work by Cynan Jones: Everything I Found On the Beach; the innovative anthology of literary criticism in the field of Welsh Writing in English Almanac 15; a UK-edition of the winner of the Zimbabwean Best First Novel Award This September Sun by Bryony Rheam and the exuberant Ten Pound Pom a personal biography, travelogue and rant by one of Wales' foremost writers, Niall Griffiths, on a trip round Australia. We are currently developing a new E-Book List for May 2011.
Forthcoming for Christmas 2011: Loneliness of the Long-Distance Book-Runner by Bill Rees; on the life of a second-hand book dealer |
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