Parthian Books

29/07/2024

The ALT Edition 2024 is here! Including Q***r Spaces, Places, Pages with Joshua Jones and Jj Fadaka on Sat 24th August at 1pm at the wonderful Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop

https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/q***r-spaces-places-pages

29/07/2024

Haven’t got your summer reading sorted? Head over to Parthian website and check out our new releases. We’ve got a little something for everyone!

26/07/2024

🔥🔥🔥Delighted to announce that Joshua Jones’ acclaimed debut short-story collection Local Fires has made the longlist for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize!

19/07/2024

Ece Temelkuran’s celebrated novel Women Who Blow on Knots is hitting the stage this autumn at !

A powerful tale of freedom, resilience, and unbreakable friendships. Adapted for stage by Arcola Theatre co-founder Leyla Nazli.

Running from the 24th October - 23rd November 2024.

🎨 .arty

18/07/2024

🩰 So, Unspeakable Beauty isn't just about ballet and quietness.

💜 It's about the sheer depth of human relationships, and how one person can be your entire world. 🌎

This can either be a saving grace or absolute disaster...

For Violet, which will it be?

🔗 If you'd like to read more of Unspeakable Beauty, you can find a copy here through Parthian Books
https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/unspeakable-beauty

If you've already read it, let me know what you think. ☺️

17/07/2024

“I realised that Wales had an articulable existential mission that mapped on to my own Turkish preoccupations about representation and emplacement and I found this commonality invigorating. Growing up as an émigré in England, I was continually reminded of my Turkishness ‒ otherness ‒ throughout my formative years.”

Read the full article by Özgür Uyanık below ⬇️

Özgür Uyanık I’ve been writing in Wales since 2017. Initially, I was doing creative writing assignments for an MA and revising a long-gestating novel that would be published in 2020. By that time, I had completed the MA, begun a PhD in creative writing, and built up a portfolio of screenwriting...

16/07/2024

"I continue to value libraries as precious human spaces that I often use to align myself with the nourishing sense of communal reading. The invisible energy generated by humans reading together, even though they are magically in their own worlds, is invaluable for anyone and not just writers or students."

Get to know Author of the Month Özgür Uyanık, who introduces his debut collection of short stories, 'Men Alone', a meditative vision from a unique voice that explores the many – often confounding – permutations of modern masculinity.

"Poised between melancholy and yearning, this wry, moving, and beautifully crafted collection of stories is a rich and multilayered meditation on aloneness in all its complex shades and metamorphoses." – Tristan Hughes.

Read the full interview here: https://libraries.wales/aotm/ozgur-uyanik/

Parthian Books Cardiff Library Service Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru / Books Council of Wales

12/07/2024

In the next FREE Representing Wales session, we’ll be hearing from English language publishers, Calon, Parthian Books, Seren Books and Lucent Dreaming.

Join us on Wednesday 24 July.
Time: 6.00pm - 7.00pm

Sign up here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RjH-j0qPRcOrJoA3iKZt8g

10/07/2024

This fantastic event is TONIGHT at Waterstones in Trafalgar Square! A debut authors' panel "placing q***r lives and culture front-and-centre", featuring Joshua Jones. More info on the link 👇👇

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Debut Authors Panel: Ania Card, Joshua Jones and Rachel Dawson in conversation today.

06/07/2024

Diolch to Cynon Valley Museum for stocking our books!

05/07/2024

https://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/new-releases/products/for-britain-see-wales-a-possible-future

Joe England “For twenty years we’ve pretended we know what we’re doing on the economy – and the truth is we don’t really know what we’re doing on the economy. Nobody knows what they are doing on the economy… Everybody is making it up as we go along… we need to try a different approac...

04/07/2024

Happy Publication Day! 🎊 Men Alone: Stories the debut short-story collection from Özgür Uyanık is out now!

04/07/2024

It's polling day!

Joe England ‘Come to Wales, we’re very cheap’ is not something this government is prepared to consider’ Mark Drakeford There is the fundamental question: what do people actually want in their daily lives? In June 2020 public demonstrations and a 24,000-signature petition caused the local hea...

03/07/2024

Part Two.

Joe England To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognised need of the human soul. Simone Weil (1949) In 1967 a Welsh Office document announced: ‘For both economic and social reasons the Government reject any policy which would assume the disintegration of the substantial valley c...

03/07/2024

The unexpected sightings of “star-nosed polecats” and Purple moor grass inspired Rae Howells’ wonderful new poetry collection, which she shares with us for an evening of passionate, community activism and a common value towards protecting and appreciating the marvels of the natural world. Rae ...

03/07/2024

"Calling all local artists, poets, stitchers, sculptors, photographers, videographers, and arty, creative people! We’re going to hold a pop-up exhibition in honour of our beautiful West Cross Common and we want you to be part of it!!!

You have just under three weeks to make something inspired by the common. Let us know your plans on the email address on the poster below asap (but by 13 July at the latest) and we’ll let you know how to submit.

Any questions, or if you need directions or ideas for the species you can find on the common, just let us know here or by email.

Also looking for helpers so let us know if you’re able to be involved in any way!"

03/07/2024

The Black Bough Poetry Party, fundraising for Wellchild in Neath, is this Saturday, July 6th, 12.30-11.30pm. Featuring Natalie Ann Holborow and Rae Howells among others.
Grab your ticket here! 👇👇

Come and join our in-person event, where we share poems & music in our all day event in aid of the children's disability charity, Wellchild.

02/07/2024

Ready to delve into the world of Owain Owain’s sci-fi cult classic The Last Day? 🤖 Through a handful diary entries from the ‘lost’ 20th century, The Last Day is a powerful ode to minority languages and a warning of the true terrors of technology in the wrong hands.

Translated into English for the first time by Emyr Wallace Humphreys, pick it up from your local bookshop or direct from our website.

02/07/2024

This Friday and Saturday. The Weekend Rumble, featuring Joshua Jones and Christina Thatcher among others!

More info here: https://www.theweekendrumble.com/

02/07/2024

From Özgür Uyanık, novelist and film director, comes a debut collection of audacious, darkly wry and compassionate short stories. 'Men Alone' is a meditative vision from a unique voice that explores the many – often confounding – permutations of modern masculinity.

Driven by universal themes of desire, mortality, loss and yearning, each story evokes both the melancholy and the hope inherent in all stages of life, from childhood through to maturity. Artists, writers, lovers, killers: all types of men walk these pages, along the streets of Cardiff, İstanbul, London, Paris, Odesa and Lisbon. All seeking to find a way to belong in the world.

Özgür spent his formative years in London after his family emigrated from Türkiye in 1980, and now lives in Cardiff. With a background in the UK film industry and a few years of directing commercials in İstanbul, he transitioned to the realm of literature while continuing to work on his film projects.

"Poised between melancholy and yearning, this wry, moving, and beautifully crafted collection of stories is a rich and multilayered meditation on aloneness in all its complex shades and metamorphoses." – Tristan Hughes.

'Men Alone' will be published in July by Parthian Books.

Read the full interview here: https://libraries.wales/aotm/ozgur-uyanik/

02/07/2024

In a new series of articles in the run up to the election, Joe England explores the impending constitutional meltdown of a divided UK and its consequences, reflecting on Wales’s position as the poorest nation of all.

As a crisis looms, his new book For Britain See Wales, contemplates a reimagined Wales and what it would mean for its people.

This is the story of how Wales reached an economic and constitutional crossroad and the choices that must now be made…….

https://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/recommended-non-fiction/products/for-britain-see-wales-a-possible-future

In a new series of articles in the run up to the election, Joe England explores the impending constitutional meltdown of a divided UK and its consequences, reflecting on Wales’s position as the poorest nation of all. As a crisis looms, his new book For Britain See Wales, contemplates a reimagined ...

01/07/2024

Özgür Uyanık is Author of the Month for July with Libraries Wales! You can read his fascinating interview here 👇
'Men Alone' is officially launched this Thursday, 4th July!

https://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/recommended-fiction/products/men-alone-short-stories

From Özgür Uyanık, novelist and film director, comes a debut collection of audacious, darkly wry and compassionate short stories. Men Alone is a meditative vision from a unique voice that explores the many – often confounding – permutations of modern masculinity. Driven by universal themes of...

01/07/2024

Exploring the possible constitutional meltdown of a divided UK and its consequences. Social and industrial historian Joe England reflects on Wales’ position as the poorest nation of all, contemplating a reimagined Wales and what that would mean for its people.

For Britain See Wales: A Possible Future? is out now!

28/06/2024

A lovely launch of Men Alone:Stories by Özgür Uyanik at last night. With insightful discussion from fellow writer Tristan Hughes and a reading of short story ‘Banter’.

27/06/2024

27/06/2024

And it’s launched!🌼🌿 Rae Howells' glorious poetry collection This Common Uncommon explores the secrets and treasures of our natural world and fights to protect it. Order your copy and dive into the wonderful world of this uncommon common.

Thank you to our lovely hosts , and to everyone who came along!

27/06/2024

This launch for Men Alone by Özgür Uyanık is TONIGHT in Cardiff! Free entry. More info here 👇👇

Join us for the launch of Özgür Uyanık's "audacious and compassionate" debut story collection.