Book Launch

Shifts

by Christopher Meredith

with the author in conversation with Prof. Diana Wallace

Free admission

Come and celebrate the release of the new Library of Wales edition of this classic novel

First published in 1988, Shifts is one of the most important and influential novels to come out of Wales in the late 20th Century.

Multi-faceted, it's been described as as 'arguably the pinnacle of Welsh post-industrial fiction', 'British working-class', a 'poetic novel of ideas', and 'skip-along readable and viciously funny'.

Now Parthian in their Library of Wales classics imprint has released a new edition, corrected and reset, with a new Foreword by Diana Wallace, author of a full-length study of Meredith's work.

Meredith was born and brought up in Tredegar and has lived in Breconshire for over forty years. He's the author of a string of novels and collections of poetry.

'A beautiful, understated first novel' New York Times

'Written... superbly, with a poet's eye, mind and voice' Guardian

'A first novel of consummate skill' Sunday Times

'A novel so good it is hard to believe it is his first' Western Mail