Catch Jane Fraser in conversation with Roy Noble on BBC Wales, Sunday 14th December, 5pm, talking wartime Swansea, butchers’ shops, and the art of the historical novel.

Alan Bilton will be talking Folk Horror, Magic Realism, and the Uncanny with Julie Ann Rees, author of the brilliantly terrifying Sea Glass in the Taliesin Café Bar, Swansea University, Monday 24th November, 6pm. All welcome

You can read Jane Fraser’s moving, thoughtful, and deeply personal essay on the writing of Weights and Measures in Nation Cymru at ahttps://nation.cymru/culture/on-writing-weights-and-measures-a-story-made-in-swansea/

Watermark is thrilled and honoured to announce that our next publication will be Jane Fraser’s enormously moving and beautifully observed wartime novel, Weights and Measures, a sensitive, touching, heart-breaking account of an ordinary Welsh family’s experience of the ‘phoney’ war.

Weights and Measures will be published on October 31st, but is available to pre-order from Watermark Press now.

“Against the epic backdrop of the Second World War, Fraser’s intimate love letter to Swansea bursts with passion, humour, and heart—a sweeping family saga so compelling readers won’t want to put it down.”
Euros Lyn, BAFTA-winning Film and Television Director

Alan Bilton will be in conversation with two exciting young poets about their debut poetry collections. Free entry and all welcome.

Lucy’s collection, Dear Ceiling, is a moving exploration of grief journeying through drifting nocturnal dreamscapes and images.

Ben’s collection, Breakfast with the Scavengers, is a funny, bizarre and tender surrealist phantasmagoria, inspired by Ben’s new life in Mexico.

Carolyn will be in conversation with Alan Bilton about her latest novel Time, Again. Carolyn will also be discussing her revised edition of The Short Story – A Perfect Recipe: A Guide to Writing Short Stories.

Saturday July 12th at 2.00pm – Cover to Cover Bookshop, 58 Newton Rd, Mumbles, Swansea SA3 4BQ

"I became immersed in the enchanting illogicality of proceedings ... At Dawn, Two Nightingales works its magic on both readers and characters ... a fun, eccentric and profane read" - Hannah's Bookshelf. You can hear the whole review here.

Carolyn will be in conversation with Alan Bilton about her latest novel Time, Again. Carolyn will also be discussing her revised edition of The Short Story – A Perfect Recipe: A Guide to Writing Short Stories.

Saturday July 12th at 2.00pm – Cover to Cover Bookshop, 58 Newton Rd, Mumbles, Swansea SA3 4BQ

Great to catch up with the brilliant US novelist, Edward Matthews, whose scorching portrayal of a racially and economically divided US, in the pocket of big tech and morally corrupt authoritarian figures, obviously has nothing to do with what is going on today

The last few copies of Border Memories are in stock - grab one before they’re gone.

Missed Alan Bilton talking about ‘At Dawn, Two Nightingales’ on Hannah’s Bookshelf on Saturday? Well, fear not, because you can listen again at https://www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Bookshelf/hannahs-bookshelf-pick-and-mix-10052025/https://www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Bookshelf/hannahs-bookshelf-pick-and-mix-10052025/

Alan Bilton will once again host this year’s International Dylan Thomas Prize ceremony on Thursday May 15th. Launched in 2006, the annual Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize is one of the most prestigious awards for young writers, aimed at encouraging raw creative talent worldwide. It celebrates and nurtures international literary excellence.

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/dylan-thomas-prize/

Alan Bilton will be talking about his new novel, At Dawn, Two Nightingales’, a comic opera in novel form set in 18thC Bohemia, at the Llandeilo Literary Festival, Sunday 27th April, 12.30.

Tickets from https://www.llandeilolitfest.org/