A Room Above a Shop

<p><b>WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2026<Br>AN <i>OBSERVER</i> BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2025<Br></b><b>WATERSTONES WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025</p><p>'One of the most beautiful and original gay novels I have a read in a long time'<Br>NEIL BLACKMORE</b></p><p>When two quiet men form a tentative connection neither knows where it might lead. M has inherited his family's ironmongery business and B is younger by eleven years and can see no future in the place where he has grown up, but when M offers him a job and lodgings, he accepts. As the two men work side by side in the shop, they also begin a life together in their one shared room above - the kind of life they never imagined possible and that risks everything if their public performance were to slip.</p><p>Unfolding in South Wales against the backdrop of Section 28, the age of consent debate and the HIV and AIDS crisis, this is a tender and resonant love story, and a powerful debut.</p>