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Top Dog

Top Dog
  • Author(s): Emma Rea
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): contemporary

Primary school is over for ever. Dylan has a whole summer stretching out ahead of him. His plan to build a daring bike track around his dad’s fields is his greatest yet, but the arrival of a new boy...

Torn

Torn
  • Author(s): Karen Moore
  • Location(s): Sicily, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young English woman is forced to face the dark world of Sicilian organised crime in a desperate race against time in this gritty contemporary thriller, a story of intrigue and betrayal. Like any mother, Hanna would do anything...

Tudor Merchant’s House, Pembrokeshire

Tudor Merchant’s House, Pembrokeshire
  • Author(s): Amy Feldman
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 16th century

Time Travel to Tudor Tenby. Tucked down a narrow, Norman alley in the heart of Tenby, Pembrokeshire lies the town’s oldest unaltered building: Tudor Merchant’s House. It’s a place that transports you back 500 years to when this small,...

TWICE

TWICE
  • Author(s): Susanna Kleeman
  • Location(s): South Wales, Barrow in Furness, Sahara
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nim’s ex love returns from Silicon Valley, wanting a book from their childhood. She chucks him out. Moments later, he’s back again, one fingertip missing, claiming he’s the real Chris and that Nim’s first visitor was an imposter. Nim...

Two Doors Away

Two Doors Away
  • Author(s): Elle Spellman
  • Location(s): Bristol, Pembrokeshire, Weston-super-Mare
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Since moving to a new city, once-adventurous Steph is doing her best to prove to her friends and family back home that her life is as fulfilling and envy-inducing as ever. The truth? She’s broke and has found that...

Us Three

Us Three
  • Author(s): Ruth Jones
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Friends forever is a difficult promise to keep… Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best friends since primary school when they swore an oath on a Curly Wurly wrapper that they would always be there for each other, come what...

Waste Not, Want Not in Applewell

Waste Not, Want Not in Applewell
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

George can’t throw anything away. But he’s in danger of throwing away a chance at love George Nightingale is a hoarder with a house full of junk. For years he’s kept it a secret, rarely leaving his house and...

Welsh Folk Tales

Welsh Folk Tales
  • Author(s): Peter Stevenson
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fantasy, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Medieval to Modern

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Some are well known, others from forgotten manuscripts or out-of-print volumes, and some are contemporary oral tales....

Whale Fall

Whale Fall
  • Author(s): Elizabeth O'Connor
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

It is 1938 and on an island off the coast of Wales, Manod is trying to imagine her future. Her choices are stark: she must either stay and look after her father’s house, in the wild landscape that drove...

What Happens at Christmas

What Happens at Christmas
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Brecon Beacons, London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kidnapped for Christmas? Best-selling author Andrew Vitruvius knows that any publicity is good publicity. His agent tells him that often, so it must be true. In the run-up to Christmas, she excels herself – talking him into the craziest...

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