Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog by Dylan Thomas - Part of the new Brief Encounters series by Vintage Classics (02/07/26)

Dylan Thomas’s vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding one’s own artistic voiceA boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life and first encounters with the wider world in moments of mischief and self-discovery. Along the way, a sensibility begins to take shape – playful, observant and alive to the strangeness of the everyday.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days