Llyfrau Cantre’r Gwaelod
Llyfrau Cantre’r Gwaelod is an offshoot of CSP-Cymru Cyf., established in 2016 with the aim of bringing back into print lost Welsh literary classics of the nineteenth century. Its volumes incorporate a scholarly edition of the original texts, with an accompanying introduction. Jane Aaron, Emeritus Professor at the University of South Wales, is the series editor, and Rita Singer, Research Fellow at the University of Bangor, edited and introduced its two inaugural publications, T. J. Llewelyn Prichard’s The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti (1st edition, 1828) and Thomas Richards’ Rob the Red-hand and other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery (selected from Richards’ publications in British and Tasmanian periodicals of the 1820s and 1830s).
Contact details: jane.aaron@southwales.ac.uk
Cambria Gothica
Literary explorations of supernatural horror have, in Wales as elsewhere, been popular with writers and readers alike, as this collection of tales, dating from to 1802 to 1908, aims to demonstrate.
Rob the Red-Hand and other Stories of Welsh Society and Scenery
Rob the Red-Hand is a manslayer who spends his life hiding away in the rough mountain uplands of Merionethshire. When he witnesses a gang of smugglers brutally assaulting young Janet Meredith, Rob steps from the shadows and helps his estranged nephew Reginald to free her from her kidnappers.
The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti
A light-hearted mother, a free-spirited noble patron and a blushing young sweetheart—young Twm Shôn Catti from Tregaron has it all. But one day, his mischievous temper gets the better of him and he is forced to become an outlaw. This is the story of a young man fallen from grace who eventually makes good by trusting his own wit, daring and poetic talent.