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Latest title from Planet Books

Our latest title, The Breathing, was launched recently at The Bookshop at Aberystwyth Arts Centre.

The Breathing - £6.99

Mary-Ann Constantine read a couple of passages from the book and an excellent crowd attended.

Planet would like to extend a warm thank you to the Bookshop for hosting the event.

The CARADOC EVANS COLLECTION
Morgan Bible and Journal 1939-44 - £6.95

This new edition brings together two of the author's late works, the short story collection, Morgan Bible, and a Journal that he kept between 1939-44...

 

My Neighbours - £6.95

Damned by the Western Mail as “literary filth” this collection of stories, from Caradoc Evans's greatest creative period, takes stock of the London Welsh...

 

GALICIAN TRANSLATIONS

Wounded Wind - £5.75

Portraying vividly the difficulties of life in Galicia, the poor, rainy north-western corner of Spain...

 
Things - £6.25

These very short stories, which approach prose poems in their lyric intensity, are Alfonso R. Castelao's contribution to a popular Galician art form...

 

Them and Other Stories - £6.75

Them presents a rich selection of the short stories of Nobel prize nominated Galician author Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrin...

 

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

The Breathing - £6.99

A gathering of eleven short stories, The Breathing has a consistency of voice that pulls disparate plots and settings together and turns them into a creative whole.

 

The Red Jag - £6.75

A collection of powerful, witty short stories set in multi-cultural Britain...

 

POETRY

 

O for a gun - £7.50

This collection of 101 haiku and senryu follows Nigel Jenkins's highly successful haiku publication Blue, published by Planet in 2002...

 

The Wind Itself - £8.25

Selected Poems of Werner Aspenström translated by Robin Young...

 

Graffiti Narratives - £4.95

A groundbreaking collection of poems and stories in the Merthyr dialect charting the course of post-industrial south Wales...

 
 
 
Coulda Bin Summin - £6.95

Coulda Bin Summin follows up on the success of Mike Jenkins's groundbreaking collection of poems, Graffiti Narratives, in presenting the voices and characters of contemporary Merthyr...

 

NON-FICTION

 

Summer Journal 1951

 

- £5.75

Mynydd Bach is an area of still unspoilt moorland in Ceredigion and a wild, special place even to those without local roots...

Sugar & Slate - £6.95

A mixed-race young woman, the daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and black father from Guyana , grows up in a small town on the coast of north Wales...

 

The Skiffle Craze - £15.00

What were skiffle's origins? Its attraction for young people? Its importance for Sixties music..?

 

Words With Pictures - £19.95

Welsh Images and Images of Wales in the Popular Press 1640-1860 by Peter Lord...

 

 

 

 

 


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