📚 THE 2026 SHORTLIST 📚
We are thrilled to unveil the 6 titles that make up this year's stellar Swansea University (@swanseauni ) Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist! #SUDTP26
Who will be crowned our winner on May 14th? 🏆
📰 PRESS RELEASE: bit.ly/SUDTP26shortlist
🎉 The great and the good of book bloggers will be providing insight into our 12 longlisted titles from 9th-19th March in our special longlist celebration blog tour! We'll be posting links to blogs as soon as they are published. 👀 #SUDTP26 📚
If you were looking to dip your toe into poetry this month for #ReadingWales26 then how about this booklet from @poetrycandle? Ten poems for a taste of Wales. 🏴📚
"Sometimes now, radio on, half listening, struck still
by a line of verse, a voice, a chord, cadenza,
I remember living light in a breaking wave"
#TodaysPoem#poetry
Waves by Gillian Clarke in Ten Poems from Wales (2013 @poetrycandle) candlestickpress.co.uk/pamph…
ALT Poetry chapbook Ten Poems from Wales (Candlestick Press) sits with a notebook with an ornate gold cover and a black pen
ALT Handwritten transcription of the poem Waves by Gillian Clarke from the poetry chapbook Ten Poems from Wales
#ReadingWales26 🏴📚🏴kicks off on 1 March. Here's everything you need to know about what it is, how to take part and tips on where to start - are you joining in? nutpress.co.uk/2026/02/are-y…
Time to gather your Welsh authors and books. It's almost time for #ReadingWales26 🏴 📚 🏴@BookerTalk is hosting and I'll be co-hosting with her. Come & join us, read a Welsh author and/or join in with the readathons, one fiction, one non-fiction. bookertalk.com/reading-wales…
One of the best romantic fiction writers out there. If you haven't read Miranda Dickinson yet, you're missing out. Stories told with warmth and humour and a brilliant cast of characters. #RomanceBook#TeamSparkly
Hundreds of hours of work. My whole heart poured into every page. It isn’t just a lovely orange book. It’s the best thing I’ve written in 16 years as a published author. And it needs to find its readers. Please help me spread the word, lovelies. I want this book to FLY… 🧵
ALT My brand new book, And Then There Was You, resting on a music rest on a piano with sheet music behind it. The cover shows a man sitting at a painted piano with a woman leaning against it, listening to him play. Strings of white lights loop above with two seagulls flying. The tagline reads: “Two lonely people. One song to change their lives.”
ALT A review of And Then There Was You by Nina Pottell in Prima Magazine reads: “If you need a glorious, uplifting read, this is for you! After her divorce, Merryn has found happiness running her cafe
in St Ives with a community of people around her. Zach feels lost after an injury causes him to abandon his surfing career. Will an abandoned piano that Merryn finds and puts in the courtyard of her cafe bring the two of them together? I adored this story.”
ALT A list of five-star reader reviews for And Then There Was You, read: “'A particular joy ... I was totally enchanted'. ‘Something special... heartwarming and refreshing'.
'This is Miranda at her best'. ‘I really enjoyed the slow burn romance between Zach and Merryn'. ‘What a moving story.’ ‘Miranda Dickinson is one of my favourite authors, she never disappoints.’ ‘So vivid! I felt like I was there at the beach café'. ‘I was swooning with every page'. ‘This book had everything needed in an emotional romance: protagonists with depth, simmering chemistry and a cast of supporting characters that make the novel seem real. This will be one I'll reread over and over!”
ALT A box containing paperback editions of my new novel, And Then There Was You. The cover shows a man sitting at a painted piano with a woman leaning against it, listening to him play. Strings of white lights loop above with two seagulls flying. The tagline reads: “Two lonely people. One song to change their lives.”
Preorders make SUCH a difference, so if you fancy a lovely orange book for the ultimate end-of-summer treat (in paperback, ebook and gorgeous audiobook), preorder from the links here:
linktr.ee/attwy
Publishes with @HQstories on 28th Aug, so not long to wait!
ALT A paperback of my brand new book, And Then There Was You, resting on the music stand of my piano, with sheet music behind it. The cover shows a man sitting at a painted piano with a woman leaning against it, listening to him play. Strings of white lights loop above with two seagulls flying. The tagline reads: “Two lonely people. One song to change their lives.”
Ooh, look! Finished copies of my new novel, #AndThenThereWasYou, have arrived - and they are GORGEOUS!
My 15th contemporary novel and 20th overall. Seeing it in print for the first time never stops being magical.
Out 28th Aug - PB, EB & AB @HQstories
Links in next tweet (1/2)
ALT A paperback of my brand new book, And Then There Was You, resting on the music stand of my piano, with sheet music behind it. The cover shows a man sitting at a painted piano with a woman leaning against it, listening to him play. Strings of white lights loop above with two seagulls flying. The tagline reads: “Two lonely people. One song to change their lives.”
ALT The blurb on the back of the paperback edition of And Then There Was You reads: “Merryn Rowe adores her life in St Ives. The café she owns and the community she serves are her much-needed second chance after a heart-breaking divorce. But as she gazes out at the Cornish sea, she begins to long for more… Zach Trevelyan is not where he expected to be. His surfing career in tatters following an injury, he finds himself in St Ives without a home, a job, or a path ahead… When Merryn discovers an abandoned piano, it evokes long-lost memories of someone who left her life without a word - her much-loved stepfather. Impulsively, she gives the piano a home in the courtyard of her café. And late one night, when a familiar song comes through her window, Merryn discovers a striking man huddled at the piano.
Who exactly is the midnight musician?
And why can't she stop thinking about him... and his beautiful melody?”