Stephen Knight , A Hundred Years of Fiction
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004)
Professor Stephen Knight’s A Hundred Years of Fiction is an in-depth exploration and analysis of the Anglophone fiction of Wales in the twentieth century, the book covers the major periods, genres and authors of twentieth century Welsh writing in English, from Allen Raine to Christopher Meredith. Stephen Knight considers Welsh fiction from a socio-cultural viewpoint, relating the authors and texts to the determining forces of their period and contexts, such as economy, politics, religion, gender issues, concepts of Welsh identity and the varying pressures of a colonial situation. He uses the techniques of modern post-colonial (and colonial) criticism, paying special attention to the role of Welsh-language culture in the formation of the authors and their texts. Beginning with early responses to colonialism, the book then moves on to map Wales's varying representations of the politics of industry, as well as the ways in which Welsh writing in English responded to the metropolitan influence of modernism. In the latter half of the century, the question of women's writing in Wales has become increasingly important, and is examined in detail, as is the decline of industry and the concurrent rise of a postmodern Anglophone literature. A Hundred Years of Fiction will be essential reading for anyone interested in the multiple articulations of Welsh identity and culture in twentieth-century English-language fictions of Wales

Barbara Prys-Williams, Twentieth-Century Welsh Autobiography
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004).
The writing of good autobiography requires an encounter with oneself that can involve the need to wrestle with potent elements from one's past. In this pioneering work on twentieth-century Welsh autobiography in English, Barbara Prys-Williams traces the fascinating psychological influences which have shaped the consciousness and world views of seven authors, all by birth, or by adoption, Welsh. The study throws intriguing new light on the personalities as well as the work of many figures who occupy a prominent place in the Welsh imagination, including several who may be described as icons of their respective cultures. The comic exuberance of Rhondda-born humorist Gwyn Thomas is shown to have bleak origins: his work is powered by pain. Rhys Davies takes detachment to narcissistic levels, manipulating his own history to cover his tracks. Award-winning feminist Lorna Sage, comments with acerbic wit on her Northern Border upbringing, showing herself to have been deprived of secure psychological boundaries. Miner-writers Ron Berry and B. L. Coombes allow powerful personal drives to shape their stories, one openly, one covertly. Margiad Evans, who loved the southern Border country, writes movingly of different phases of life from turbulent adolescence to the process of dying. Poet-priest R. S. Thomas, deeply committed to the ancient heartlands of Wales, uses a virtuoso obliquity in his searingly honest search for self in his poetic autobiography.

Rhian Reynolds ed, BWLET:  Bibliography of Welsh Language Literature in English Translation
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005)
This is the first comprehensive bibliography of Welsh–English literary translation, complementing the online BWLET.net database (live since October 2002) as part of the AHRB-funded project. 

The earliest translations date from the 17th century and sources for translations vary from anthologies, manuscripts and journals, to audiovisual and internet translations. The information is presented by literary period, with each author appearing alphabetically.

BWLET offers an insight into the energy of Welsh-language culture. It maps the cultural exchanges that have shaped it over the centuries and invites new readings of recent cultural relations between the Welsh-speaking Welsh and the majority English language population as well as the Anglophone reading public worldwide.