Drift: Winner of the Wales Book of the Year

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War casts its pall of shadow and gunsmoke over much of the book, ‘smothering everything,’ rubbing out ‘traditions, kindness, joy’ and making ‘people’s lives invisible. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It is a stunning piece of fiction, that swells with a magical lyricism and captures with sheer luminosity its characters, story and sense of place. I didn’t know anything about the story when I picked this up and honestly I think that’s a good way to approach it.

Here is the crisp and emotive prose of an athletic storyteller – one who’s novel, Martha, Jac a Sianco, is already considered a modern classic in Welsh literature – and she holds no truck with magical themes shrouded in prettified obscurity.There’s a cafe in Llangrannog where you can have a lovely hot chocolate right on the beach, which I would highly recommend.

I wish someone had explained that this meant it had a strong fantasy plotline that was not hinted at in the blurb. It's a stunning tale about the enigma that is the sea, and the descriptions of the ocean are breathtaking. Joseph’s journey is to maturity, and an appreciation that letting somebody have their freedom is a remarkable act of love, rather than what he’s been taught through his life by his father, who captured and stifled his mother.

org/best-welsh-non-fiction-books-of-2023/ Our book Birdsplaining: A Natural History by Jasmine Donahaye makes the Wales Arts Review 2023 pick of the year for nonfiction! The book is on the Welsh curriculum and the film adaptation, also written by Lewis, won six Welsh Baftas as well as the Spirit of the Festival Award at the Celtic Media Festival. It bursts with hope and gentle strength, and I was completely absorbed by it's wonderful characters. We hope that the platform provided by this competition brings these fantastic books to the attention of even more readers, and that wider audiences are drawn to read Wales.

Lewis finely weaves her imaginings, expertly paced, until their intensity churns like a collapsing wave. In a year in which the Welsh-language overall prize was won by Llŷr Titus for his novel Pridd (Gwasg y Bwthyn), Clare Furlough, representative of the prize’s organisers Literature Wales stated, ‘The novels claiming the overall prizes this year are both unique but are linked by their sense of place; their magical words are rooted in specific Welsh landscapes.Nefyn has a close affinity to the workings of the tides, and over time has built up a vast collection of specimens washed ashore into their cove – shells, egg cases, seeds and trinkets from distant lands – which she keeps on display in glass cabinets. He ferries a lot of the Welsh students in town back and forth, and he always has copies of my books in the glovebox of his car. When you login first time using a Social Login button, we collect your account public profile information shared by Social Login provider, based on your privacy settings.