The Complete Dewithoner’s Reading List

The Bard, 1774, by Thomas Jones (1742–1803)

The following list comprises titles reviewed and discussed by those taking part in Dewithon, a yearly celebration of Welsh writers and their works for the pleasure and enlightenment of the international book-blogging community. It includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays, in fact anything with a significant link to Wales.

It is hoped this index will act as a stepping-stone for those wishing to discover written works from (and about) our small but literary nation. Please feel free to drop me a line if you think anything is missing.

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THE WALES READATHON LIBRARY

Aiken, Joan

• The Whispering Mountain (1968)

Alexander, Lloyd

• The Book of Three (1964)

Azzopardi, Trezza

• Remember Me (2003)
• The Tip of My Tongue (2013)

Bailey, Anthony

• A Walk Through Wales (1992)

Bauer, Belinda

• Blacklands (2010)

Bawden, Nina

• Carrie’s War (1973)

Breeze, Andrew

• The Origins of the ‘Four Branches of the Mabinogi’ (2009)

Chatwin, Bruce

• On the Black Hill (1982)

Clare, Horatio

• The Prince’s Pen (2012)

Clarke, Gillian

• At the Source: A Writer’s Year (1999)

Conran, Alys

• Pigeon (2016)

Cooper, Susan

• The Grey King (1975)

Dafydd, Fflur

• The White Trail (2011)

Dahl, Roald

• James and the Giant Peach (1961)

Davies, Rhys

• The Black Venus (1944)

Davies, W.H.

• The Autobiography of a Super-tramp (1908) – BOOK OF D19
• Songs of Joy and Others (1911)

Dillwyn, Amy

• The Rebecca Rioter (1880)

Dunthorne, Joe

• The Adulterants (2018)

Eames, Marion

• A Private Language? A Dip Into Welsh Literature (1997)

Edwards, Dorothy

• Winter Sonata (1928)

Erskine, Barbara

• Sleeper’s Castle (2016)

Fisher, Catherine

• The Clockwork Crow (2018)

Fforde, Jasper

• The Last Dragonslayer (2010)

Garner, Alan

• The Owl Service (1967)

Gray, Ann

• Gronw’s Stone, Voices from the Mabinogion (1997)

Goudge, Elizabeth

• The Child from the Sea (1970)

Greenwood, Juliet

• The White Camellia (2016)

Gruffydd, W.J.

• Folklore and Myth in the Mabinogion – A Lecture Delivered at the National Museum of Wales on 27 October 1950 (1958)

Hall, M.R.

• The Coroner (2009)

Hancocks, David

• Cunval’s Mission (2004)

Hawkins, Alis

• None So Blind (2017)

Hickson, Joanna

• First of the Tudors (2016)

Jenkins, Eifion

• If You Fall I Will Catch You (2008)

Johnes, Martin

• Wales: England’s Colony? (2019)

Johnston, Dafydd R.

• A Pocket Guide: The Literature of Wales (1994)

Jones, Cynan

• Cove (2016)
• The Dig (2014)
• The Long Dry (2006)

Kemp, Laura

• The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness (2018)

Lofmark, Carl

• A History of the Red Dragon (1995)

Lovekin, Carol

• Ghostbird (2016)

Lewis, Rhiannon

• My Beautiful Imperial (2017)

Llewellyn, Richard

• How Green Was My Valley (1939)

Machen, Arthur

• The Great God Pan (1890)

Merriman, Catherine

• Barbecue (The New Welsh Review, 1992) *

Morden, Daniel

• Secret Tales from Wales (2017)

Mortimer, Penelope

• The Pumpkin Eater (1962)

Newton, Jan

• Remember No More (2017)

Nimmo, Jenny

• The Snow Spider Trilogy (1986-89)

Penman, Sharon Kay

• Here be Dragons (1985)
• Falls the Shadow (1988)
• The Reckoning (1991)

Peters, Ellis

• A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977)

Postgate, Daniel

• Cenhadaeth Nadolig Bluebell – An Ivor the Engine Story (2009)

Prichard, Caradog

• One Moonlit Night (1961) – BOOK OF D20

Pullman, Philip

• Northern Lights (1995)

Raine, Allen

• A Welsh Witch (1902)

Riggs, Ransom

• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2011)

Roberts, Kate

• Feet in Chains (1936)

Ronson, Jon

• The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004)

Russell, Bertrand

• The Problems of Philosophy (1912)

Sheers, Owen

• The Green Hollow (2018)
• Resistance (2007)

Spooner, L.M.

• Gladys of Harlech (1858)

Strachan, Mari

• Blow on a Dead Man’s Embers (2011)

Szerb, Antal

• The Pendragon Legend (1934)

Thomas, Dylan

• Collected Poems (1953)
• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940)
• Under Milk Wood (1953)

Unknown

• The Mabinogion (12th-13th Centuries CE)

Various

• Second Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories (1993)

Walton, Jo

• Among Others (2011)

Warr, Tracey

• Conquest: Daughter of the Last King (2016)

Waterson, Luke

• Song Castle (2018)

Wynne, Ellis

• The Visions of the Sleeping Bard (1703)

Wynne Jones, Diana

• Eight Days of Luke (1975)
• The Homeward Bounders (1981)
• Howl’s Moving Castle (1986)

* short story

An updated version of this list will appear following the event each year.

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