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The Elizabeth Tudor Conspiracy

The Elizabeth Tudor Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Alexandra Walsh
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire, Andorra
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical, Time Slip
  • Era(s): Present Day and Tudor

What secrets were covered up at the court of Henry VIII …? Nonsuch Palace, England, 1586 Elizabeth I has been queen for 28 years. She has survived hundreds of plots against her but now she faces the revelation of...

The Fall

The Fall
  • Author(s): Simon Mawer
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1900s onwards

The novel embarks on a journey involving three generations of families shifting from various decades. Rob Dewar and his climbing partner, Jamie Matthewson, are clinging by their fingertips to the North Face of the Eiger, one of the most...

The Festival

The Festival
  • Author(s): Louise Mumford
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Libby can’t believe her luck when she wins two tickets to the biggest event of the summer: Solstice, a music festival celebrating the longest day of the year. Wanting to escape their problems for a few days, Libby, and...

The Fortune Men

The Fortune Men
  • Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The story of a murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . . Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese...

The Ghosts of China

The Ghosts of China
  • Author(s): G I Lewis
  • Location(s): Merthyr Tydfil
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2013 looking back to mid 19th Century

Merthyr Tydfil in 1844 is a frontier town on the cutting edge of the industrial revolution where wealth and crime walk hand in hand. Introduced just a few years earlier, the Glamorgan Constabulary fight to take control of this...

The Gilded Cage

The Gilded Cage
  • Author(s): Luisa A Jones
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWI

Lady Rosamund Fitznorton, trapped in an arranged marriage to the cruel Sir Lucien, finds herself drawn to his new chauffeur, Joseph. One man holds her captive and the other offers a hope of escape… but who really holds the...

The Girl in White

The Girl in White
  • Author(s): John Nicholl
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

Harry Gilmore has no idea of the terrible danger he faces when he meets a beautiful girl in a local student bar. Drugged and abducted, Harry wakes up in a secure wooden compound deep in the Welsh countryside, where...

The Glass Class

The Glass Class
  • Author(s): Suzi Stembridge
  • Location(s): Athens, Calderdale, Snowdonia, Spetses
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Late 1970s

Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...

The Halfways

The Halfways
  • Author(s): Nilopar Uddin
  • Location(s): Bangladesh, London, New York City (NYC), Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A breathtaking debut novel from an exciting new voice in fiction – coming July 2022! Nasrin and Sabrina are two sisters, who on the face of things live successful and enviable lives in London and New York. When their...

The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place
  • Author(s): Trezza Azzopardi
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2000 ‘Fans of Kate Atkinson and Andrea Ashworth will love this. Read it and weep.’ Mirror This brilliant first novel is set in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay in Cardiff where the author...

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