About Alcemi
Alcemi believes in publishing success stories, kept on a human scale. Editor Gwen Davies has experience of developing new fiction writers such as Richard Gwyn, Rachel Trezise and Tristan Hughes, who have gone on to make their name worldwide with publishers like Doubleday and Picador, while Alcemi’s own plaudits include Gee Williams' Salvage as nominee for the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and Fflur Dafydd having been named as the Oxfam Hay Emerging Writer of the Year 09, for her novel Twenty Thousand Saints.
Alcemi's tastes are for literary fiction by the writers of Wales; genre only if it has an intelligent twist; not so much fantasy as magic realism; not so keen on historical as retro; definitely surrealism, black comedy, sex. Urban, yes, but also rural voices which avoid sentimentality.
Featured Titles
 | Dovetail by Jeremy Hughes A psychological thriller, set in Spain and south-east Wales, on obsession and the far-reaching evils of perfectionism. £9.99 |  | Faith, Hope and Love by Llwyd Owen The second novel from this highly-acclaimed, ground-breaking and often controversial Welsh language author and translator. £9.99 |
 | Perfect Architect by Jayne Joso The new novel from the author of Soothing Music for Stray Cats, a finalist for the 2010 People's Book Prize. £8.99 |  | The Vagabond's Breakfast by Richard Gwyn In 2006, Richard Gwyn was given a year to live unless a suitable liver donor were found. A novelist and poet, he lost nine years of his life to vagrancy and alcoholism in the Mediterranean, principally Spain and Crete. This memoir is an account of his “lost” years. £9.99 |
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