Forthcoming titles from Alcemi
The Deer Wedding by Penny Simpson
From the author of The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum
“Compelling, humane... a novel of remarkable delicacy and power.... Its central subject – how personal and collective histories mesh – has never been more vital.” Michael Symmons Roberts
ISBN:9780956012500 £9.99. Published on 30 September 2010
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Bamboo Grove by Romy Wood
“Buzzes with insight and imagination... A very fine debut.” Richard Gwyn, author of The Colour of a Dog Running Away
ISBN:9780956012517 £9.99. Published on 8 October 2010. Launch at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Glanfa Theatre foyer and Bar One, 7.30pm
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Titles for 2011
Perfect Architect by Jayne Joso
ISBN: 9780956012524. Price: £9.99
"A work of stunning originality and deftness of prose, in which Jayne Joso explores with delicate skill and rare empathy what becomes of the broken hearted." Cathi Unsworth
Jayne Joso's Soothing Music for Stray Cats was predicted by the TLS to be the "next great, eccentric London novel."
Published on 5 May 2011
Dovetail by Jeremy Hughes
ISBN: 9780956012531. Price: £9.99
“A subtly daring format and an easy, hypnotic style, at once tense and uncommon.” John Ballam, Oxford University
Attacked as a boy by bullies, Tim is left with the most serious loss he will face as a man. As a man he is out to revenge himself one by one on the gang by enacting the perfect murder with the perfect killing machine. But first of all he must become a supreme craftsman. Then he must practise. A psychological thriller, set in Spain and south-east Wales, on obsession and the far-reaching evils of perfectionism.
Jeremy Hughes was one of the first students to study for the Master's in writing at Oxford University, from which he graduated with distinction. He was awarded first prize in the Poetry Wales competition and his poetry was shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award. He has published two pamphlets – breathing for all my birds (2000) and The Woman Opposite (2004) – and has widely published poetry, short fiction and reviews in British and American periodicals. Jeremy lives in Abergavenny.
Published on 18 May 2011
The Living Hall by Lara Clough
ISBN:9780956012548. Price: £9.99
Carl can either attend his alcoholic mother's fiftieth or his best friend Jo's Halloween party in Knucklas. His decision marks the beginning of an intricate relationship with this village on the Shropshire-Wales border, and its inhabitants. These include Jo's disabled teenage son Seb and his carer Meg, the only one who can secude Seb from his fantasy world of Samurai swords and motorbikes. Also a pair of thirty-somethings who have decamped to a Forties showman caravan to renovate the local Arts and Crafts pile: Morwenna and Susie, Wenna harbouring secrets as to why she had to leave this area so urgently in the first place.
An evocative novel about reconciliation, boys becoming men, and uncovering beautiful old houses.
Published in 2012
Lara Clough's debut novel was Facing into the West Wind. She has received two prestigious writing bursaries from Academi. A graduate of the MA in Creative and Media Writing course at Swansea, her play Landscape of Love was selected for mentoring with SCRIPT, West Midlands Arts Agency for dramatic writing. Lara has lived on the Welsh Borders for twenty years and currently teaches creative writing locally with Aberystwyth University Lifelong Learning.