Wales is the new Celtic literary crucible, and this is the first modern short story collection which collects the most exciting Welsh writers working today.

After years of near invisibility in contemporary fiction, in the shadow of the acclaimed offerings from Scotland and Ireland, today Wales can draw from a vibrant, diverse set of writers, from Trezza Azzopardi to James Hawes, from Niall Griffiths to Anna Davis.

This is a vibrant, brilliant, and original collection, whose subjects range from childhood trauma to hipster thrills, but all of them share a pervasive sense of a dark, edgy world. So here they are: eleven exciting writers from Wales, a place perhaps catching up with its own distinctive history and way of life.