A contemporary retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the earliest Welsh manuscripts which date from the 13th century.

A small Welsh valley community come together to form a carnival marching band in Gwyn Thomas' farcical exploration of the social, economic and political turbulence abound in twentieth century Wales.

With passion, humour and remarkable insight Gwyn Thomas captures the world of South Wales in the 1830s during the turbulent years of the Merthyr and Newport Risings. As the newly-built foundries enter their first decline, a travelling harpist from the rural north arrives in one of the new towns to find his friends caught in a fiercely-fought industrial dispute, a dispute which quickly spirals out of control. A powerful and sweeping novel by one of Wales's great literary figures, 'All Things Betray Thee', tells the epic story of a people, their joys and victories, but also their sorrows and defeats.

First published in 1947, The Alone to the Alone unites Gwyn Thomas' lyrical and philosophical flights of narrative in a satire whose savagery is only relieved by irrepressible laughter. It is Gwyn Thomas' most shaped work: the underlying meaning of South Wales' history is not so much documented as laid bare for universal dissection and dissemination. The novel, with its distinctive plural narration, is a choric commentary on human illusion and knowledge, on power and its attendant deprivation, on dreams and their destruction. The Alone to the Alone is History as Carnival and, in Gwyn Thomas' unique voice, a comic vision of humanity that recognizes no geographical boundaries.

Sex, murder, and a devastating, humour mark these three novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In Oscar, the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him. InSimeon, the abuse of sexual and family power ends with violent death, and in The Dark Philosophers itself, the grimly humorous philosophers gather in an Italian café to tell the tragic tale of revenge and manslaughter that they engineer.

Yn ei arweiniad bywiog i farddoniaeth a beirdd y Cymry hyd at gyfnod beirdd yr uchelwyr, llwydda Gwyn Thomas i brofi bod traddodiad o unrhyw werth yn beth byw a chreadigol. Ceir yn y llyfr yma gyflwyniad i nodweddion barddoniaeth y cyfnodau gwahanol yn ein traddodiad, i'r personoliaethau y tu ol i'r farddoniaeth ac i'r cerddi eu hunain, wedi'u cyfieithu i Gymraeg cyfoes a bywiog. Dyma un o'r llawlyfrau mwyaf defnyddiol ym maes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg ac un sy'n cyfuno ysgolheictod o'r radd flaenaf ag arddull sionc ac apelgar. Cyflwynir y deunydd mewn modd fydd yn apelio at bawb sy'n ymddiddori mewn barddoniaeth Gymraeg ond eto bydd yn addas ar gyfer myfyrwyr y traddodiad barddol.

A collection of eight articles, lectures and essays on diverse themes found in Welsh and Celtic literature from the Middle Ages to the 20th century including individual chapters on the work of Sion Cent, Daniel Owen and R. Williams Parry.