In the mid-eighties, four friends got together round a kitchen table and determined to give the women of Wales a voiceto bring back to life the voices of the past and find the classics of the future. It was the era of Greenham Common and female empowerment, it was time to reassert the reputation of literature written by Welsh women, to reprint wonderful novels which had long fallen by the wayside, lost and largely forgotten. Twenty-five years later Honno Press is a thriving independent publisher the only surviving independent womens press. This collection brings together a selection of the best of Welsh Womens writing taken from commissioned anthologies from every decade of Honnos working life.From stories of womens lives at home and abroad, in good times and bad, to crime fiction and memoir, 25 at 25, is an essential guide to the recorded and creative lives of the nations women.

In the mid-eighties, four friends got together round a kitchen table and determined to give the women of Wales a voiceto bring back to life the voices of the past and find the classics of the future. It was the era of Greenham Common and female empowerment, it was time to reassert the reputation of literature written by Welsh women, to reprint wonderful novels which had long fallen by the wayside, lost and largely forgotten. Twenty-five years later Honno Press is a thriving independent publisher the only surviving independent womens press. This collection brings together a selection of the best of Welsh Womens writing taken from commissioned anthologies from every decade of Honnos working life.From stories of womens lives at home and abroad, in good times and bad, to crime fiction and memoir, 25 at 25, is an essential guide to the recorded and creative lives of the nations women.

In the mid-eighties, four friends got together round a kitchen table and determined to give the women of Wales a voiceto bring back to life the voices of the past and find the classics of the future. It was the era of Greenham Common and female empowerment, it was time to reassert the reputation of literature written by Welsh women, to reprint wonderful novels which had long fallen by the wayside, lost and largely forgotten. Twenty-five years later Honno Press is a thriving independent publisher the only surviving independent womens press. This collection brings together a selection of the best of Welsh Womens writing taken from commissioned anthologies from every decade of Honnos working life.From stories of womens lives at home and abroad, in good times and bad, to crime fiction and memoir, 25 at 25, is an essential guide to the recorded and creative lives of the nations women.