Parthian imprint: 87 books

Van of One's Own

A Winter Sojourn

by Biddy Wells
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017

"Portugal is not all that far away, or exotic, or dangerous, but it felt like a huge stretch for me to leave my partner, family, job and home and just go off. An overland solo trip lasting months in an ancient little camper van was not the kind of thing I did. But it was something I was about...

Turning the Tide

The Life of Lady Rhondda

by Angela V. John
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014

Drawing upon a varied array of sources, many of which were previously unused, this rich biography explores the public achievements and the fascinating private world of one of the most influential people in British society in the first half of the 20th century. The book tells the remarkable tale of...
by Jon Gower
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

In this zany new collection of stories, a paid assassin called Krink loads up on viper-spit to tackle some uber-thugs; the governor of a prison ship introduces his inmates to haute cuisine; and a farmer wakes up after an avalanche in north Wales to find he is the last man alive. Ranging from the taiga...

Unfinished Business

Journal of an Embattled European

by Geraint Talfan Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

For many in Britain the issue of the country’s membership of the European Union is the biggest political decision of their lifetime. It affects their livelihoods, their communities, the life chances of their children and their grandchildren and, above all, their sense of themselves. The existential...
by Carole Burns
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015

The stories in this collection circle around women who are either literally missing—a mother in rehab, a daughter never born—or who are missing some metaphorical piece of themselves. A father tries to convince his uncompromising, anorexic daughter to want to live, a single woman lures men to her...
by Ron Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

In this classic masterpiece, originally published in 1968, dysfunctional lovers Rees Stevens and Ellen Vaughan must uncover and interpret Ellen's father's journal in order to make sense of their own lives. Faulknerian in its range, hard driven in its narrative telling, singular in style, and fierce...
by Rod Humphries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

The dark clouds of war are gathering over Europe, yet the inhabitants of the South Wales town of Penddawn have other things on their minds: rugby, of course, religion, and the annual trip to the shores of Tenby—a chance to forget about both poverty and Hitler. But, for one small boy, the worlds...
by Aled Islwyn
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Aled Isylwyn's award-winning writing is is characterized by emotional concerns underlain by lyrical intensity. In this short story, taken from the collection Out With It, charm and confidence allow Joel to part men with their money in the gym and the gay clubs, but Welsh muscle-boy soon discovers his ability to escape the past is not as developed as his physique.
by Lewis Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

Embarking on a journey that spans Sri Lanka, Wales, Spain, India, Morocco, and the lives and minds of complex, charming characters, these short stories offer a fresh view on contemporary life in Wales. The stylized prose creates both a sense of familiarity in the exotic and a sense of exotic...
by Glen James Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018

Stranded on the outskirts of Ironopolis — nickname to a lost industrial Middlesbrough — the Burn Council Estate is about to be torn down to make way for regeneration. For the future ... But these streets know many stories, some hide secrets … Jean holds the key to the disappearance...
by James Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

After an elderly farmer dies, following an accident on a remote Welsh smallholding, he leaves the kingdom over which he had ruled so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. As they prepare for the funeral, the novel—the last written by the prolific James Hanley—relates the events and experiences...
by Glen Peters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014

With recipes, murder, intrigue, and vernacular from another era, this crime novel recaptures the tastes and turbulence of 1960s Calcutta as the city struggles with the changes pressing upon the country. A young, widowed mother, Mrs. D'Silva is eager to be part of the new India, the new Kolkata, and...
by Margiad Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

On a frozen winter’s day, Mary Bicknor, the companion of a wealthy old woman, marries Easter Probert, whose child she is expecting. She cries bitterly throughout the service, which has been engineered by the vicar. Easter has no wedding ring for her, and though he lends her a silver ring of his...
by Miren Agur Meabe
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018

‘But what if we are all fictioneers? What if we all continually make up the stories of our lives? (…) Our life-stories are ours to construct as we wish, within or even against the constraints imposed by the real world…’ J.M. COETZEE A writer in her late thirties retreats to Landes in...
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