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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,...

Sea State

Sea State
  • Author(s): J M Simpson
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Jesse Stevens needs to escape her past, start a new life and feel safe. The rugged coastline and tight-knit community of Castleby offers her that chance. Her new job with the local lifeboat crew gives her the stability and...

Slick Deals

Slick Deals
  • Author(s): Helen Carey
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

An exciting crime adventure. A child is kidnapped in Monaco. The British government is about to license oil exploration in the Irish Sea. The only person to see a link is Ella Crossley, a young oil trader in London....

Talking with the Dead

Talking with the Dead
  • Author(s): Harry Bingham
  • Location(s): Newport
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s DC Fiona Griffiths’ first murder case – and she’s in at the deep end. A woman and her six-year-old daughter killed with chilling brutality in a dingy flat. The only clue: the platinum bank card of a long-dead...

The Bones Beneath

The Bones Beneath
  • Author(s): Mark Billingham
  • Location(s): Bardsey Island
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Tom Thorne is back in charge – but there’s a terrifying price to pay. Stuart Nicklin, the most dangerous psychopath he has ever put behind bars, promises to reveal the whereabouts of a body he buried twenty-five years before....

The Claude Glass

The Claude Glass
  • Author(s): Tom Bullough
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980

Set in the Welsh Borders in 1980, The Claude Glass charts an unlikely friendship between two neighbours: Robin, the seven-year-old son of English hippie sheep farmers, and Andrew, a child so neglected by his impoverished parents that he is...

The Girl Who Left

The Girl Who Left
  • Author(s): Jenny Blackhurst
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1994 and contemporary

Twenty-five years ago, a local girl went missing. Now, another girl comes back… When five-year-old Elsie Button was snatched from a garden in a sleepy town on the Welsh island of Anglesey, and a local man later confessed, it...

The House on the Cliff

The House on the Cliff
  • Author(s): Charlotte Williams
  • Location(s): Cardiff, Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Billed as the first in a series, the book begins with what looks like a straightforward case for psychotherapist Jessica Mayhew. A strikingly attractive young actor, Gwydion Morgan, turns up at her office requesting help with his button phobia....

The Little House By The Sea

The Little House By The Sea
  • Author(s): Tracy Rees
  • Location(s): South Wales, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bluebells bob in the salty sea wind and the cottage gate swings open to reveal the inky-blue cove. It’s exactly how Kitty always pictured it… except in her head, she wasn’t standing here alone. Kitty Roberts spends her days...

The Seafarers

The Seafarers
  • Author(s): Stephen Rutt
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life: spectacular gatherings of charismatic Arctic terns, elegant fulmars and stoic eiders, to name just a few. Often found in the most remote and dramatic reaches of our shores, these...

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