Founded in Wales, Publish & Print was a professional, affordable, self-publishing book company that used Print On Demand (POD) technologies to produce quality paperbacks and Kindle e-books. I started the company after being made redundant by Gartholwg LLC, and between 2014-2026 I helped over 100 authors, from all over the world, produce numerous books.
Below is a small selection of some of the great writers I helped. To find out more about their books or to buy a copy, just click the book cover:
Jimmy Stokes
Jimmy worked as a secondary school teacher for nearly 40 years. In his 20s and 30s he played first-class rugby for Newbridge RFC and was club captain in 1983_84. During his teaching career he was Head of Religious Education and was later appointed to Director of Sixth Form, finally progressing to Assistant Head until he retired in 2011.
Retirement gave me the opportunity to work with homeless people, which provided an insight into the waste of human potential as a result of the dire situation they experience. This voluntary work and his teaching experiences inspired him to write. ‘Moving Mountains‘ is his third novel.
Terry Breverton
Terry Breverton was educated at Manchester and Lancaster universities, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Consulting and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He has spoken on Wales at the North American Festival of Wales at Vancouver and Washington and across Wales, given academic papers in Paris, Thessaloniki, Charleston and Seattle and taught in Milan and Reggio Emilia. He is a prolific author with over fifty books to his name.
Other books: The Greatest Sporting Family In History: The Blue And Black Brothers, 100 Greatest Welshmen
Jim Wilson
Jim’s second publication is a very personal account of a traverse across one of Nepal’s last remaining wildernesses and undiscovered Tibetan regions. This area was only opened to trekking in 2015 and Jim’s group were the first to complete the whole traverse. This is the story of that first exploratory trek and the trials and tribulations of a journey through remote valleys and high mountain passes.
Moira Andrew
Moira Andrew was born and educated in Scotland. She has worked in most areas of primary education, as teacher, head teacher and college lecturer. She taught creative writing part-time in the University of Glamorgan. Moira has 123 published books and 2,500 poems in her archive. And yes, despite deteriorating eyesight, she is still writing! Look out for ‘Taste of Summer’ another great new novel by Moira, out soon.
Other books: Moonfall (with Angie Butler), Thumbprints
Gillian Griffiths
Gillian Griffiths was born in Bridgend, South Wales and has lived in and around Wales all her life. She worked for over 23 years at the headquarters of South Wales Police before leaving to pursue a career as a self-employed artist. She now divides her time between creating a florilegium of the plants and flowers of Cowbridge Physic Garden and writing fiction.
She has written two novels: ‘Crazy Paving‘, which draws on a deep love of the beautiful coastline of South Wales and a belief that age is merely a number, and ‘Shadows At Twilight‘, a gripping tale of love, betrayal, and resilience.
Irene Edwards
A children’s writer from Llanelli. An experienced primary school teacher, on retirement she began to research into the imaginary minds of children and their world of literature and writing.
She published the successful ‘Magic Islands series,’ – a resource used in schools all over the UK.
Other books: Chaos in the Cosmos, The Land Of Now And Then
Jim McCarthy
Swansea writer and academic Jim McCarthy has translated from the Spanish a superb collection of short stories from award-winning writer Fernando Villamía. His collection, ‘The Back of the Photo’ is Winner of the Max Aub International Story Competition & Winner of the Gabriel Miró Short Story Prize.
Jim has also translated all six award-winning plays by Spanish playwright Antonio Tabares. Now available, in English, in two volumes.
Other books: Antonio Tabares Play I, Antonio Tabares Plays 2
Islwyn Ffowc Elis (translated by Stephen Morris)
‘A time traveller arrives in Wales in the year 2033 to find a peaceful and thriving country. He falls in love and plans to make a life in this new version of his homeland – only to be forced back to his own time. Searching for a way back, he finds himself in a dystopian mirror-universe version of his beloved nation, and despairs. Will he find his way back to the golden future that he saw was possible? Will Wales? This is the first translation into English of the classic Welsh-language time-travel novel, written in 1957.’
Sally Spedding
Sally Spedding was born by the sea near Porthcawl and studied Sculpture at Manchester and St. Martin’s, London. While an exhibiting artist and full-time teacher, she won an international short story competition and was approached by an agent. Wringland, set in haunted Fen country, was published in 2001. Sally is also twice winner of the international Welsh Poetry Competition.
Other books: Cut To The Bone, The Yellowhammer’s Cradle, Behold A Pale Horse, The Nighthawk, Downfall, The Devil’s Garden, Blood At Beltane, Fatal, Fin du Monde, White Meat, Bloodstream, A Flock Of Sheep
Barry S Dowding
Born in 1948, in the backstreets of East London, Liam O’Keefe was moulded by a deprived life that inevitably led him into crime where he developed a blinkered obsession with making money and not caring how. By 1974, Liam had achieved his ambition, but when a ruthless gangster attempts to stab him, and dies accidentally in the struggle, any feelings of success disappear. Fearing the repercussions, Lian runs, leaves London for the first time and finds himself in a North Devon town. Freed from the baggage of his London life, Liam begins to relax in the towns laid back atmosphere. He is charmed by the picturesque surroundings, and the town’s friendly and sometimes quirky residents, particularly one bubbly young waitress. For the first time, Liam feels a sense of belonging. This is until his new Devon friends ask for his help. To help would mean returning to London and confronting his aggressive past.
Stephen P Jeffries
Having told his son and daughter the story of ‘Matthew And The Front Room Railway’ when they were young, Stephen now in his early seventies, found himself retelling the story to his granddaughter.
With the introduction of lockdown measures in the UK, he took the opportunity to put pen to paper and produce his first fantasy novel.
Paul Tallett
Scottish adventurer Paul Tallett always dreamed of trekking to Mount Everest Base Camp.
Find out how he swapped the sofa for the hills as he becomes a super-fit mountaineer scaling hundreds of Munros and Corbetts on a journey of discovery that lasts over 10 years.
Will he achieve his goal? And what comes next in the life of this passionate adventurer?
R. M. Kain
R. M. Kain is an exciting new author who writes fast-paced, military-style thrillers based in various locations around south Wales.
Praise:
“Gritty, and entertaining, with a fair dose of squaddie humour. Jock of the Bay is the fabulous debut novel from exciting new author R M Kain.” – Deb McEwan
L. Penelope OAP
A new author who behind the confident public persona is a woman judged to be highly assertive and highly needy. Forming relationships with men 24/7 was not in her wish list or, latterly, her bucket list. She finally found good loving, occasional mind blowing sex and some heartache in her 40s. With the help of cosmetic surgery, gym sessions, and a reasonably healthy diet she’s still going strong in her 70s. Will she succeed and find the elusive combination of lust and love fuelled commitment whilst maintaining her independence?
Searching for Parker is full of wry, poignant, often funny memories of a successful career and a turbulent personal life.
Stephanie McNicholas
Born in Pontypridd, South Wales, she qualified as a journalist in Cardiff in the 1980s and went on to write for national and regional newspapers and magazines, including Record Mirror and the Big Issue Cymru. Steph was one of the team of journalists who created the Western Mail website icwales, which later became known as Wales Online.
In 2015, she joined community radio station GTFM in her hometown, as a newsreader and presenter.
G. D. Jones
G. D. Jones, is a Bridgend based writer that likes to ask questions about our very existence. Author of ‘The Future Assassin’, ‘Theory Tales’, ‘Extra Terrestrial Wrestlers’ and ‘Gypsy Campfire Stories’ he attempts to answer those intriguing questions that have plagued mankind since the beginning of time. Who are we? And where have we come from? An original, fantasy short story writer.
Other books: Extra Terrestrial Wrestlers, Theory Tales, The Future Assassin
Michael James
Michael James was born and brought up in the Rhondda Valley in south Wales where his love of mountains was formed. He works with disadvantaged children and those with learning difficulties.
This is the true story of how a 75-year-old man trekked to Poon Hill, in the Himalayas, to raise funds and awareness for two Christian charities he works with, The Leprosy Mission and the Rainbow of Hope.
Rob Graham
Robert Graham was born in 1961 in the poorly deprived area of Aston in Birmingham. Moving to Wales at the age of six months old, he describes himself as a true Welshman; even though his father was Scottish and his mother Irish.
At sixteen he went on to join the navy, travelling the world and experiencing firsthand the horrors of war.
Penelope Callow
Penelope Callow is the pen name of children’s author Penelope Garland. Penelope was born in South Wales to a Welsh Father and Manx Mother. Her life took her to Paris, France where she settled into married life as a teenage bride. She returned to live in Wales after living and working there but never forgetting her beloved island… Penelope hopes that this is the first of many children’s books to come!
Other books: Flip and Flop: Scottish Adventure
Huw Beynon
HB was born on the sunny side of a Welsh hillside on the 26th and the 28th of November in the Year of the Horse. Yes, right from the ‘Oops!’ moment that led to conception, life was clearly programmed to be a laugh a minute, sometimes two. For the past three years – from Brexit and Trumpety Trump to Social Media and Huawei – he has embraced the joy and the doolallyness of the passing parade as observed from the grassy knoll, essentially with hat set at a jaunty angle and a little ball bouncing along above the words. Happy days.
Hubert Tsarko
Hubert Tsarko is the pen name of John Short. Born in Liverpool, he grew up on the edges of Lancashire and went from school to study Comparative Religion at Leeds University. Later he spent some years in the south of Europe working in fields and factories and as an English teacher in Spain before settling for a long period in Athens. At the end of 2007 he emerged from an obscure neighbourhood of Piraeus to get a laptop and submit work to magazines.
Other books: Composting For All
David Wright
As a professional photographer who has lived in south Wales for over 26 years David has enjoyed discovering the history of this beautiful part of the world and meeting some of it’s many interesting characters.
In this, his first novel, he hopes to capture a ‘sense of community’ which has long since been eroded by the winds of time.
Sue Bowen
A retired primary school headteacher and school inspector, still involved in schools as chair of a local Multi Academy Trust. She lives in Macclesfield and has two children and four lovely grandchildren.
Sue has taken six years to meticulously transcribe a WWI soldier’s diary.
Mike Coombes
Based in Newport, South Wales. He has spent almost 20 years in bereavement counselling and has now put in writing his experience – good and bad – of supporting over a thousand people through their grief.
The hope is that anyone reading the book may find the one word, sentence, idea that gives them a little light in the dark tunnel of loss and makes them feel less “invisible”.
Dr James Henderson
University lecturer James has a doctorate in Astrophysics and is passionate about communicating the wonders of the Universe to the world.
Black holes, quantum physics, space travel and aliens. This book offers an exciting tour around our amazing cosmos.
This great educational book should do just that!
Dr Clyde Hughes
Dr Clyde Hughes lives in Swansea with his wife Anne, two German shepherd dogs, three cats, four Shetland ponies and a cockatoo which are all rescue animals.
He runs an animal healing sanctuary and all proceeds from the book ‘Angelic Dowsing’ will go towards the running of the centre. He is qualified in many forms of healing and has been working as a healer for over 30 years.
Cari Glyn
Cari Glyn is the pen name of Jen Pritchard. Jen was born in Bargoed and has many happy childhood memories growing up in the local community before the pit finally closed. After completing A levels, she left home to study for a BSc at University College, Cardiff and went on to complete a PhD in Zoology.
After a 30 year career in education, Jen recently retired and returned to live in S. Wales.
Ted Cogdell
Ted Cogdell from Griffithstown, south Wales was conscripted into the first (and only) peacetime militia in July 1939. What was supposed to be six months training turned into seven years of war. His adventures during WWII are truly remarkable.
He was awarded the Burma Star, the Arctic Star, the 1939-1945 Star, the Defence Medal and the 1939-45 War Medal. This incredible memoir was written by Ted for his family. Ted was 99 years old when he published this memoir.
Janet Teal Daniel
In 2004, Janet and Ieuan Rhys Daniel left their marital home of twenty-five years in south Wales to live and work in the Shetland Isles. This is the story of their experience and explores themes of attachment, relationships, connection, remoteness and belonging.
Janet runs a successful private practice, counselling from home and working with a range of issues. She particularly enjoys working with couples experiencing difficulties in their relationship. This has brought together her counselling and mediation.
Marie-Louise Green
Marie-Louise Green, born within the sound of Bow Bells could claim to be a Cockney but she dislikes towns and cities, preferring the great outdoors and peace of the countryside. A local writers’ group encouraged her to indulge her love of language and reading. Writing has given her imagination freedom to draw upon past experiences, current affairs and best of all a reason for ‘people watching’. After writing short stories, prose and plays the gauntlet was thrown down ‘So you think you’re a author; prove it!’ This is her first novel.
Publish & Print also helped many poets with their work and many of these can be found on Poetry Publisher.