The novel follows sixteen-year-old Simon Crimmons as he leaves school to work on the railways and gets pulled into a summer of strikes, glamour, and first love. Warner uses the train world and its class tensions to frame a vivid coming-of-age story.

A railway summer pulls a boy toward work, class conflict, and first love.

Tanya Harrod studies the life of ceramic artist Michael Cardew, a modernist who distrusted modernity, and follows the contradictions of his craft, colonial service, and later reputation. The book doubles as a biography and a history of studio pottery.

A life of craft, contradiction, and the making of modern pottery.

The play imagines the pressures and contradictions that shaped Bradley Manning before the leaks that made him famous. Tim Price places that story against Welsh radical traditions, turning it into a political drama about conscience, power, and responsibility.

A political play that asks how conviction becomes radicalisation.