This page highlights some of the authors who’ve had books published with us.  More new authors/books being added every month.

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George Lewis (Edited by Jayne Mogridge)

From the brickyards of Burry Port to the Great War and back again, ‘From Burry Port to Bedwas’ is a personal memoir of George Lewis. Proud Welshman, Christian, talented musician and family man, George started writing a series of notebooks in the 1970s so that his family would know what life was like at the turn of the century in west Wales and beyond. Although primarily a family tale the descriptions of lives lived, hardships endured, work, war and love shine through making this a universal, historical journey we can all take and enjoy.


Jim Wilson

Jim’s second publication is a very personal account of a traverse across one of Nepal’s last remaining wildernesses and undiscovered Tibetan regions. This area was only opened to trekking in 2015 and Jim’s group were the first to complete the whole traverse. This is the story of that first exploratory trek and the trials and tribulations of a journey through remote valleys and high mountain passes.


Irene Edwards

A children’s writer from Llanelli.  An experienced primary school teacher, on retirement she began to research into the imaginary minds of children and their world of literature and writing.

She published the successful ‘Magic Islands series,’ – a resource used in schools all over the UK.


Rob Cullen

This is a collection of poetry written over forty years. They begin in the 1970s when Rob worked at Eastmoors Steelworks, Cardiff. Other poems were written when he worked in a psychiatric hospital in Sussex. The title poem, Uncertain Times, was written in 1985 during the miner’s strike and reflects the impact of a destructive political process on the community in which Rob was born and grew up – a destructive process that still has effect to this day. Some poems expose the experience of working with seriously emotionally damaged and abused children. More recent poems reveal the healing journey that Rob took to regain his equilibrium after a long professional life working with troubled, and troubling, people.


Joanne C Hicks

Joanne is a poet from beautiful Tenby in Pembrokeshire, west Wales.

A collection of poems and prose, which cover a wide range of subjects. Poems that are reflective of everyday life, some thought provoking and some humorous. Some inspired by the Pembrokeshire countryside and beaches, others by historical events such as Covid-19, VE Day and the passing of the Queen.

Poems that will feed your soul – simply put – life wrapped up in verse.


Lindsay Pettifor

Lindsay was born and raised in Herefordshire and now lives in Worcestershire with her husband and daughter.

A collection of poems exploring place within the natural world through the cycle of seasons, and through redemption and the legacy of love.

Lindsay’s poetry has been highly commended by the Yeovil Poetry Prize and received a special mention in the 2021 International Welsh Poetry Competition.


David Urwin

David Urwin’s poetry has been published in on-line magazines such as ‘I am not a silent poet’ and his haiku in ‘Blithe Spirit’, the journal of the ‘British Haiku Society’. He has a loyal and respectful following in south-west Wales where he regularly reads his work live, including his ‘performance poetry’.

He has three collections out:

‘Towards Humanity’, (Pinewood Press, 2015), ‘Plain Song from the Backstreets of Silence’, (P&P 2020) and ‘The Parrot in the Mango Tree’, (P&P, 2023). He recommends reading the poems out loud, and disturbing the silence… for just a little while.



Chris Armstrong

Chris Armstrong has had three careers, working as a merchant seaman and navigator, a farmhand on the farm where he still lives, and as an information scientist before retiring to become a poet and writer. He has one collection of poems in print, Mostly Welsh (Y Lolfa, 2019). Although initially entirely focussed on poetry, his writing has branched into short stories and his first full length work of fiction, The Dark Trilogy was published in 2022. A collection of short stories is in preparation. He has been published, for example in Storgy, Agenda and London Grip New Poetry. He lives in a cottage in the mountains of mid-Wales.


Jim McCarthy

Swansea writer and academic Jim McCarthy has translated from the Spanish a superb collection of short stories from award-winning writer Fernando Villamía. His collection, ‘The Back of the Photo’ is Winner of the Max Aub International Story Competition & Winner of the Gabriel Miró Short Story Prize.

Jim has also translated all six award-winning plays by Spanish playwright Antonio Tabares. Now available, in English, in two volumes.


Moira Andrew

Moira Andrew was born and educated in Scotland. She has worked in most areas of primary education, as teacher, head teacher and college lecturer. She taught creative writing part-time in the University of Glamorgan. Moira has written a number of books on the creative arts for Belair, the most popular being Language in Colour and Paint a Poem. She has many poetry collections to her name, among them, Geese and Daughters, (IDP 2018), Imagine a Kiss, (Dempsey & Windle 2020), Looking through Water, (Poetry Space 2020) and Moonfall (2021).


Terry Breverton

Terry Breverton was educated at Manchester and Lancaster universities, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has spoken on Wales at the North American Festival of Wales at Vancouver and Washington and across Wales, given academic papers in Paris, Thessaloniki, Charleston and Seattle and taught in Milan and Reggio Emilia.

He is a prolific author with over fifty books to his name.


Steve Woods

Steve was born and brought up in south Wales. He married Sue and moved to Australia in 1981. Returning to Wales in 1993, he took up sailing, after completing a BA Hons with the Open University. He spends much of his leisure time in the tropics, which he loves.

Steve is a prolific writer and has produced three poetry collections and a autobiographical memoir.


Gillian Griffiths

Gillian Griffiths was born in Bridgend, South Wales and has lived in and around Wales all her life. She worked for over 23 years at the headquarters of South Wales Police before leaving to pursue a career as a self-employed artist. She now divides her time between creating a florilegium of the plants and flowers of Cowbridge Physic Garden and writing fiction.  ‘Crazy Paving’ is her first novel and it draws on a deep love of the beautiful coastline of South Wales and a belief that age is merely a number.


Anita Namyslo

A first collection of poems by English writer Anita Namyslo.  Anita spent her childhood in Warwickshire before attending the University of Warwick. She studied teacher training at the University of Durham and then taught at the Inlingua School of Languages in the Black Forest, south-west Germany. Since 2003 she has been a freelance trainer for Business English.  She has loved writing poems since she was six years old.


Stephen P Jeffries

Having told his son and daughter the story of ‘Matthew And The Front Room Railway’ when they were young, Stephen now in his early seventies, found himself retelling the story to his granddaughter. With the introduction of lockdown measures in the UK, he took the opportunity to put pen to paper and produce his first fantasy novel.


Angela Edwards Rigby

Cardiff-based poet Angela Rigby has produced two collections of subtle, yet sharply observed poetry. These poems are light in touch, with original turns of phrase and unique points of view. Many have been published in magazines and online and are collected here for the first time along with new poems. This is her second collection, her first, ‘A Rose In Snow’ was published in 2020.


Stephanie McNicholas

Born in Pontypridd, South Wales, she qualified as a journalist in Cardiff in the 1980s and went on to write for national and regional newspapers and magazines, including Record Mirror and the Big Issue Cymru. Steph was one of the team of journalists who created the Western Mail website icwales, which later became known as Wales Online. In 2015, she joined community radio station GTFM in her hometown, as a newsreader and presenter.


Sally Spedding

Sally Spedding was born by the sea near Porthcawl and studied Sculpture at Manchester and St. Martin’s, London. While an exhibiting artist and full-time teacher, she won an international short story competition and was approached by an agent. Wringland, set in haunted Fen country, was published in 2001. Sally is twice winner of the international Welsh Poetry Competition and works as a full-time author.


Moira Andrew / Angie Butler

Moira Andrew is a former headteacher who has lectured creative writing at the University of Glamorgan, written a number of books (many for children), including eight, highly-praised poetry collections.

Angie Butler has performed her work on a variety of platforms including the UK and Kenya. She also holds the Guinness Book of World Records for gathering the most pirates together. This is her first poetry book, a collaboration with accomplished poet and friend, Moira.


Islwyn Ffowc Elis (translated by Stephen Morris)

‘A time traveller arrives in Wales in the year 2033 to find a peaceful and thriving country. He falls in love and plans to make a life in this new version of his homeland – only to be forced back to his own time. Searching for a way back, he finds himself in a dystopian mirror-universe version of his beloved nation, and despairs. Will he find his way back to the golden future that he saw was possible? Will Wales? This is the first translation into English of the classic Welsh-language time-travel novel, written in 1957.’


Elizabeth Donnelly

A lovely, short collection of heartfelt poetry by Irish writer Elizabeth Donnelly.

Illustrated with beautiful watercolour paintings by Lynsey Donnelly.

 


Rhys Lloyd

Rhys Lloyd was born in the 1960s, is a proud Celt, husband and father. He lives in London and Brighton.

Sandpiper is his first published work. Set from the 1960s through to beyond the present day, it is an imagining of how a man’s life could play out.


William Furley

William Furley benefited from the freedoms of the European Union when he moved from London to S. Germany at the age of twenty-three and eventually became Associate Professor of Greek at Heidelberg University until his retirement to London in 2019.

He has collected here poems published over the decades in literary magazines and read at readings, and many not previously published.


Keith J Roberts

A Swansea writer with an interest in Second World War history. His last book ‘Electric Avenue’, published in 2010, tells the story of the well known ‘Morrison Electricar’ battery electric commercial vehicles.

Within This War is the story of a Birmingham family whose daughter comes to work in a munitions factory in mid Wales. Friendships are quickly formed and life seems rosy. But initial happiness soon turns to sorrow as tragedy strikes this close-knit group of girls.


Paul Tallett

Scottish adventurer Paul Tallett always dreamed of trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp.

Find out how he swapped the sofa for the hills as he becomes a super-fit mountaineer scaling hundreds of Munros and Corbetts on a journey of discovery that lasts over 10 years.

Will he achieve his goal? And what comes next in the life of this passionate adventurer?


R. M. Kain

R. M. Kain is an exciting new author who writes fast-paced, military-style thrillers based in various locations around south Wales.

Praise:
“Gritty, and entertaining, with a fair dose of squaddie humour. Jock of the Bay is the fabulous debut novel from exciting new author R M Kain.” – Deb McEwan


L. Penelope OAP

A new author who behind the confident public persona is a woman judged to be highly assertive and highly needy. Forming relationships with men 24/7 was not in her wish list or, latterly, her bucket list. She finally found good loving, occasional mind blowing sex and some heartache in her 40s. With the help of cosmetic surgery, gym sessions, and a reasonably healthy diet she’s still going strong in her 70s. Will she succeed and find the elusive combination of lust and love fuelled commitment whilst maintaining her independence?

Searching for Parker is full of wry, poignant, often funny memories of a successful career and a turbulent personal life.


Abhay Singh

Biology graduate Abhay Singh, who completed a MSc in Ecological Genetics at Cardiff University, shares numerous scientific theories, mixed with his own mortality, life story and religious upbringing in India to explain why all actions on Earth are guided by the reality of the soul.

Body, Mind and Spirit explores the scientific explanations for our consciousness.


G. D. Jones

G. D. Jones, is a Bridgend based writer that likes to ask questions about our very existence. Author of ‘The Future Assassin’, ‘Theory Tales’, ‘Extra Terrestrial Wrestlers’ and ‘Gypsy Campfire Stories’ he attempts to answer those intriguing questions that have plagued mankind since the beginning of time. Who are we? And where have we come from? An original, fantasy short story writer.


Michael James

Michael James was born and brought up in the Rhondda Valley in south Wales where his love of mountains was formed.  He works with disadvantaged children and those with learning difficulties.

This is the true story of how a 75-year-old man trekked to Poon Hill, in the Himalayas, to raise funds and awareness for two Christian charities he works with, The Leprosy Mission and the Rainbow of Hope.


Rob Graham

Robert Graham was born in 1961 in the poorly deprived area of Aston in Birmingham. Moving to Wales at the age of six months old, he describes himself as a true Welshman; even though his father was Scottish and his mother Irish.

At sixteen he went on to join the navy, travelling the world and experiencing firsthand the horrors of war.


Lesley Williams

Lesley Williams lives in Swansea. After a long career in Social Services, early retirement gave her the opportunity to attend a variety of writing courses run by the University. She has performed her work locally as a member of the ‘Garage Players’ and continues to meet monthly with a small group of Swansea poets.

This moving collection of poetry and prose – ‘Meanderings of the Mind’ – draws upon many of her own heartfelt personal experiences.


Penelope Callow

Penelope Callow is the pen name of children’s author Penelope Garland. Penelope was born in South Wales to a Welsh Father and Manx Mother. Her life took her to Paris, France where she settled into married life as a teenage bride. She returned to live in Wales after living and working there but never forgetting her beloved island… Penelope hopes that this is the first of many children’s books to come!


Huw Beynon

HB was born on the sunny side of a Welsh hillside on the 26th and the 28th of November in the Year of the Horse. Yes, right from the ‘Oops!’ moment that led to conception, life was clearly programmed to be a laugh a minute, sometimes two. For the past three years – from Brexit and Trumpety Trump to Social Media and Huawei – he has embraced the joy and the doolallyness of the passing parade as observed from the grassy knoll, essentially with hat set at a jaunty angle and a little ball bouncing along above the words. Happy days.


Hubert Tsarko

Hubert Tsarko is the pen name of John Short. Born in Liverpool, he grew up on the edges of Lancashire and went from school to study Comparative Religion at Leeds University. Later he spent some years in the south of Europe working in fields and factories and as an English teacher in Spain before settling for a long period in Athens. At the end of 2007 he emerged from an obscure neighbourhood of Piraeus to get a laptop and submit work to magazines.


Chris Clark

This autobiography is one of Shelf Unbound’s ‘Best Books for 2019′. The title, a parting quip by Brian Clough after Chris interviewed him on radio, sets the ironic tone.

A Cardiff boy, Chris grew up on the streets of postwar Canton, travelled far as teacher and broadcaster, then went through some desperate times before establishing his own national company.   But the stars of this book are the family and friends he has loved, sometimes lost, but always remembered and written about so poignantly.


J. Loh Rettig

Born and raised in Malaysia, after graduating from High School, impelled by inquisitiveness and adventures spirit, J. Loh soon left for Europe where she furthered her education and learned a professional occupation in Germany.

After writing her first poem at the age of seventeen J. Loh decided to produce her first book of verse in 2015 and has followed this up with a novella in 2018.


David Wright

As a professional photographer who has lived in south Wales for over 26 years David has enjoyed discovering the history of this beautiful part of the world and meeting some of it’s many interesting characters. In this, his first novel, he hopes to capture a ‘sense of community’ which has long since been eroded by the winds of time.


Sue Bowen

A retired primary school headteacher and school inspector, still involved in schools as chair of a local Multi Academy Trust. She lives in Macclesfield and has two children and four lovely grandchildren.

Sue has taken six years to meticulously transcribe a WWI soldier’s diary.


Pat McKenna

Born in Pontypridd, Pat attended Maesycoed Infants and Junior School and after passing the 11+ went on to Pontypridd Girls’ Grammar School. After leaving school she worked as a Solicitors’ Clerk and later as a secretary to a surveyor. Interested in writing since an early age she has written many poems, short stories for children and adults and a couple of plays. She enjoys reading, crochet work and in the past belonged to a hand weaving group. Her other interests are local history and Celtic languages, particularly Welsh, which her daughter and three granddaughters all speak fluently.


Mike Coombes

Based in Newport, South Wales.

He has spent almost 20 years in bereavement counselling and has now put in writing his experience – good and bad – of supporting over a thousand people through their grief.


Louise G Cole

Originally from Worcestershire, England Louise now lives in County Roscommon in the west of Ireland.

She writes short stories, flash fiction and poetry, and has been published, and won or been shortlisted, in various literary competitions.


Dr James Henderson

University lecturer James has a doctorate in Astrophysics and is passionate about communicating the wonders of the Universe to the world.

Black holes, quantum physics, space travel and aliens. This book offers an exciting tour around our amazing cosmos.

This great educational book should do just that!


Harry Calvert

The author is Professor Emeritus in Law in the University of Wales. He worked in many Commonwealth jurisdictions before settling in Wales in 1975. He lives in the Rhondda Valley with his wife, Heather, and their Welsh border collie, Coco. He is 85 years old.

He has published a number of books and academic papers.


Dr Clyde Hughes

Dr Clyde Hughes lives in Swansea with his wife Anne, two German shepherd dogs, three cats, four Shetland ponies and a cockatoo which are all rescue animals. He runs an animal healing sanctuary and all proceeds from the book ‘Angelic Dowsing’ will go towards the running of the centre. He is qualified in many forms of healing and has been working as a healer for over 30 years.


Cari Glyn

Cari Glyn is the pen name of Jen Pritchard. Jen was born in Bargoed and has many happy childhood memories growing up in the local community before the pit finally closed. After completing A levels, she left home to study for a BSc at University College, Cardiff and went on to complete a PhD in Zoology. After a 30 year career in education, Jen recently retired and returned to live in S. Wales.


Skye Langdon

Skye Langdon is the pen name for Gilda Clark. Gilda is a British (Romanian-born) author, currently living in Chester, UK. A keen, dynamic mathematics lecturer, growing a tree of her life, with multiple branches of passions (fine arts, music and writing), intuitive, independent and sensitive to the outside world, with a vivid imagination and adaptability in the face of new challenges. She has a little family, with two children.


Ted Cogdell

Ted Cogdell from Griffithstown, south Wales was conscripted into the first (and only) peacetime militia in July 1939. What was supposed to be six months training turned into seven years of war. His adventures during WWII are truly remarkable. He was awarded the Burma Star, the Arctic Star, the 1939-1945 Star, the Defence Medal and the 1939-45 War Medal. This incredible memoir was written by Ted for his family. Ted was 99 years old when he published this memoir.


Shahilla Barok

Shahilla Barok is a well-respected and highly regarded trainer, with over 20 years of experience in developing people. As a fully qualified teacher, coach and NLP practitioner, Shahilla has helped to develop private individuals and professionals within businesses. She also designs and delivers training and workshops in a number of local authorities, corporations and to embassy staff.


Gillian Brightmore

Gillian Brightmore is a fiction and script writer born in Wales and an activist in mental health issues. She has published a number of short stories, most successfully, ‘The Woman who loved Cucumbers’ (Honno Short Fiction – 2002). Her work has appeared in Planet Magazine, Big Issue Cymru, Everywoman Magazine, Roundyhouse, Poetry Online Express, ‘Exchanges: Women Writing in Wales’ (Honno Poetry – 1990) and Velvet Magazine.


Amelie Ash

Ballet dancer and author Amelie Ash is from Leicestershire. Her debut anthology ‘Epiphany’ documents her battle with anorexia.

Amelie has also had work published in ‘Poetry Rivals 2012’ and ‘Women Writers of the Year 2015’.


Janet Teal Daniel

In 2004, Janet and Ieuan Rhys Daniel left their marital home of twenty-five years in south Wales to live and work in the Shetland Isles. This is the story of their experience and explores themes of attachment, relationships, connection, remoteness and belonging.

Janet runs a successful private practice, counselling from home and working with a range of issues. She particularly enjoys working with couples experiencing difficulties in their relationship. This has brought together her counselling and mediation skills.


Jay Thomas

At a very young age the author committed a crime, in that he had great difficulty in learning to read. Many years later he was diagnosed as being dyslexic.

These stories are written bearing in mind of the many misunderstood children who have difficulty in reading.


James Walton

Australia writer James Walton is a masterful artisan with language.  His first poetry collection is simply wonderful.

‘Walton is a masterful artisan with language in poems that at the same time completely steer clear of artifice. Careering explorations carry a great sense of unruffled stillness – this book is a well travelled hardwood chest filled with glittering curios, feathers, loss and tranquillity. The future of this art form lies in experiential reading of fully fleshed works like these.’ – Les Wicks


Marie-Louise Green

Marie-Louise Green, born within the sound of Bow Bells could claim to be a Cockney but she dislikes towns and cities, preferring the great outdoors and peace of the countryside. A local writers’ group encouraged her to indulge her love of language and reading. Writing has given her imagination freedom to draw upon past experiences, current affairs and best of all a reason for ‘people watching’. After writing short stories, prose and plays the gauntlet was thrown down ‘So you think you’re a author; prove it!’ This is her first novel.


Dave Lewis

#1 Amazon Best Seller and award-winning Welsh writer, poet and photographer based in Pontypridd. He has written over 20 books on various subjects; poetry, crime thrillers, self-help, photography & cycling. He runs the world famous Welsh Poetry Competition, setup Writers of Wales and the Poetry Book Awards.


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