Gomer Press


Gomer Press is a family printing and publishing company based in Llandysul, west Wales. It is the largest publishing house in Wales.

History

The company was first established in 1892 and began as a general store; it is owned by the same family to this day. Jonathan Lewis, the great grandson of the company's founder, is the current managing director.
In September 2019, it was announced Gomer would be closing their publishing arm to focus on printing. Its 55 employees will be retained but will no longer publish new titles, of which it produced 36 in 2018. It marks the end of 127 years of publishing.

Publications

Specialising in books which have a distinctive Welsh identity, Gomer has four distinct lists:

English books for adults

The English list for adults features fiction, history, travel writing, biography, literature, cookery, sport, and visual arts. Authors and artists include Gillian Clarke, Jim Perrin, Kyffin Williams, Eddie Butler, Jeremy Moore, and Idris Davies.

English books for children

is an imprint designed to produce English books with a Welsh connection for children. It has published the last seven books to win the Tir na n-Og Award from the Welsh Books Council in the English-language category that honours the year's best book with "authentic Welsh background". Award winners include Graham Howells, Daniel Morden, and Jennifer Sullivan.

Welsh books for children

Books for children of all ages in the Welsh language published by Gomer range from Smot's board books to teenage fiction. There are a number of different series, including Chwedlau o Gymru, Cyfres Llyffantod, and Cyfres Clwb Cysgu Cŵl, Sali Mali, Tudur Budr, Helpwch Eich Plentyn, Cyfres Lolipop, as well as a wide range of titles by prolific author and poet T. Llew Jones.
From 2000 to 2012, at least six Gwasg Gomer publications have won one of the two annual Welsh-language Tir na n-Og Awards.

Welsh books for adults

Gomer publishes the work of a number of the Welsh language's eminent literary figures, past and present, such as Islwyn Ffowc Elis, T. Rowland Hughes, Gwenallt, Hywel Teifi Edwards, Angharad Price, Fflur Dafydd, and Owen Martell. There are also two bilingual series: Trosiadau/Translations and Cip ar Gymru/Wonder Wales.