New fiction inspired by the sea, commissioned exclusively for the National Maritime Museum, to mark the 70th anniversary of its opening.

A guide to Aberystwyth that mixes autobiography with topography, alligns the oblique approach with historical report, and contrasts the prosaic with the downright odd.

A guide to Liverpool with an autobiographical element which details the author's birth and formative years in the city, his movement away from it, and the abiding pull it exerts.

On leaving school a 16-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has committed suicide after losing her livestock in the foot-and-mouth epidemic and his uncle has turned to the bottle. The boy is a spiritual savant. In one of his ecstatic trances the boy learns that he has an appointed role in the world.

In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves together on the coast of Wales. They explore and attempt to overcome the yearnings and addictions that brought them this place, promiscuity, drugs, petty crime, the intense and angry search for the meaning which they feel life is lacking at the end of this momentous century.

Robbed of his ancestral home, Ianto pledges revenge not only on the English yuppies who have turned his grandmother's cottage into a weekender' barbecue party but on all those who have violated him and the land that is his. This latest act of colonial oppression and desecration triggers his lurid and strange information into unspeakable savagery.

Chased by a hit-man, a young man returns home from London to a small town in Wales. Reconciliation with his family is alternated with his pursuer's progress. A long criminal connection is revealed but can he escape the sins of his fathers? This is a tense, tightly written drama that will captivate the reader with fast, gut-wrenching action.

Written by one of Britain's most talented young writers.

A bar in Liverpool, January 2nd 2000: Victor, coming from the recent global party, meets a girl. Some time later that night, he is in her bed. This, he thinks, is the best sex he's ever had. Kelly, coming down after the recent global party, meets a boy. Some time later that night, he is in her bed. This, she thinks, is the best sex she's ever had.

On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide. During one of his ecstatic trances the boy learns that he has an appointed role in the world, which he must discover for himself. During an episode of brutal and climactic violence, he does exactly that.

Mabinogion is an exciting series of contemporary novels by leading authors, reworking ancient Celtic myth cycles. 'Ronnie's Dream' by Niall Griffiths is the second in the series and is based on the tale of The Dream of Rhonabwy, in which a traveller asleep in a filthy hovel has vivid dreams of Arthurian splendour. Set in present day Wales, the 2009 retelling features three men on the run, hiding .

Money has been stolen from the remote North Wales post office, but Darren's been over-enthusiastic with the lump hammer. When he and Alastair get back to Liverpool, and try and spend the cash on a consignment of pure cocaine - and in doing so get involved with some dangerous criminals - things really get out of hand.

A newcomer has arrived in a small Welsh seaside town, a one armed Liverpudlian. Seeking to rebuild his life, he is attempting to lead a life here unlike any life he's lived before: a normal one. However, two men are leaving Liverpool, sent by their gang boss to wreak revenge on a one armed man, maybe living somewhere in west Wales.

Everything goes wrong from the start. The money's been stolen from the remote North Wales post office, but Darren's been over- enthusiastic with the lump hammer. The elderly sub-postmistress lies in a coma. A book of furious pace and pacific calm that allows the reader to see both sympathy and terror when everything goes wrong.