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Halfway

Halfway
  • Author(s): Beverley Jones
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

If everyone is lying, who can you trust? The Halfway Inn is closed to customers, side-lined by a bypass and hidden deep in inhospitable countryside. One winter’s night, two women end up knocking on the door, seeking refuge as...

Conquest: Daughter of the Last King

Conquest: Daughter of the Last King
  • Author(s): Tracey Warr
  • Location(s): Wales, Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 11th Century

1093. The three sons of William the Conqueror Robert Duke of Normandy, William II King of England and Count Henry fight with each other for control of the Anglo-Norman kingdom created by their father s conquest. Meanwhile, Nest ferch...

Copper Kingdom

Copper Kingdom
  • Author(s): Iris Gower
  • Location(s): Swansea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

COPPER KINGDOM is set at the turn of the century in the South Wales town of Sweyn’s Eye – the old name for Swansea, where Iris Gower has lived all her life. The story centres around two families and...

Crimson Shore

Crimson Shore
  • Author(s): Gillian E Hamer
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A half-naked woman dead in a ditch. A disappearing pathologist. A teenager run off the road. For a peaceful island, Anglesey is experiencing abnormal levels of crime. What’s the connection? DS Dara Brennan has women problems. His boss, Amanda...

Disputed Land

Disputed Land
  • Author(s): Tim Pears
  • Location(s): Shropshire, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Leonard and Rosemary Cannon summon their middle-aged offspring, along with partners and children, to the family home in the Welsh Marches for the Christmas holiday. As the gathered family settle in to their first Christmas together for some years,...

Grits

Grits
  • Author(s): Niall Griffiths
  • Location(s): Ceredigion
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1990s

In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters from various parts of Britain find themselves washed up together in a small town on the west coast of Wales, fixed between mountains and sea. Here, they both explore and...

Guilty Not Guilty

Guilty Not Guilty
  • Author(s): Felix Francis
  • Location(s): Oxfordshire, London, Welsh Borders
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is said that everyone over a certain age can remember distinctly what they were doing when they heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated, or that Princess Diana had been killed in a Paris car crash, but I,...

Mother Island

Mother Island
  • Author(s): Bethan Roberts
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

How does it feel to come home from work one evening and find your two-year-old son gone? How does it feel to steal another woman’s child? To take a boy from his mother, and try to make him yours,...

On The Black Hill

On The Black Hill
  • Author(s): Bruce Chatwin
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only...

Rebecca’s Choice

Rebecca’s Choice
  • Author(s): Heidi Gallacher
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

Synopsis for ‘Rebecca’s Choice’ This novel is in the genre of romantic historical fiction. Set in South Wales in the late Victorian era, it focuses on a young woman’s struggles with love and passion. Further themes are meteorology, railways,...

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