When Nick Davieson sat down to write his first novel in his sixties, he didn’t imagine it would find readers beyond his own circle. “The book was written by me for me,” he says with characteristic humility. “If anyone else enjoyed it—which they did—then that was a bonus.” Yet his debut, Skerrid Mawr ( Rowanvale Books, 2024 ), has done more than find an audience. It’s become a quiet success story for independent publishing in Wales, praised for its vivid sense of place and i

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