On Friday 3 July at Y Mochyn Du, Cardiff, Y Lolfa are launching Cofio Tomos  which has been produced in memory of Tomos Owen, a BBC sports producer who died recently after a battle with leukaemia.

With just days to go until history is made at Cardiff’s Swalec Stadium, what better way to warm up for the first ever Ashes Test to be played on Welsh soil than to take a journey through Welsh/Australian cricket at its best with The Australian Cricketers in Wales  (Gomer).

This week sees the publication of award-winning novelist Lloyd Jones’ first Welsh-language novel, Y Dŵr. (Y Lolfa) However, the author has simultaneously announced that this will be his final book.

Deborah Kay Davies has won the Wales Book of the Year 2009, and a cheque for£10,000, for her debut collection of short stories Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful  published by Parthian.  The Welsh-language award was won by Wiliam Owen Roberts for his novel Petrograd  (Barddas).