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2022/12/13: Pugnacious Little Trolls at the White Review

There are not many extrinsic rewards for Welsh writers. The reading population is small; there are significant financial hardships; we are saturated with material from England and the wider Anglosphere; and even the best of Welsh writing is perceived, with some reason, as unvaried and unexciting. Publishers regard Welsh writers at best with a kind of commercial suspicion, and at worst with political and cultural mistrust...

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Books by Rob Mimpriss

Pugnacious Little Trolls

‘freely and fiercely inventive short stories… supercharged with ideas.’

Jon Gower, Nation Cymru

Prayer at the End: Twenty-Three Stories

‘heaving with loss, regret and familial bonds.’

Annexe Magazine

For His Warriors: Thirty Stories

‘sketched with a depth and sureness of touch which makes them memorable and haunting.’

Caroline Clark, gwales.com

Reasoning: Twenty Stories

‘dark, complex, pensively eloquent’

Sophie Baggott, New Welsh Review

The Sleeping Bard: Three Nightmare Visions of the World, of Death, and of Hell

Translated by T. Gwynn Jones, with an introduction by Rob Mimpriss.

A Book of Three Birds

‘Lucid, skilful, and above all, of enormous timely significance.’

Jim Perrin

Dangerous Asylums

‘In this exemplary collaboration between medical science and imagination, lives preserved in official records, in the language and diagnoses of their times, are restored not just to light, but to humanity and equality. This anthology is a resurrection.’

Philip Gross