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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...

The Warrior’s Princess

The Warrior’s Princess
  • Author(s): Barbara Erskine
  • Location(s): England, Rome, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern, 100AD

Jess, a young teacher in London, is attacked by someone she fears knows her well. Fleeing to her sister’s house in the Welsh borders to recuperate, she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child. Two thousand years...

The Wild Hunt

The Wild Hunt
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 12th Century

In the wild, windswept Welsh marches a noble young lord rides homewards, embittered, angry and in danger. He is Guyon, lord of Ledworth, heir to threatened lands, husband-to-be of Judith of Ravenstow. Their union will save his lands –...

When Nights were Cold

When Nights were Cold
  • Author(s): Susanna Jones
  • Location(s): London, Swiss Alps, Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 1900s onwards

The story of Grace Farringdon, who looks back on her life on the eve of the anniversary of the death of her friends. Growing up in early 1900’s Dulwich (South East London), Grace longs to escape her dreary life....

A Killer’s Christmas in Wales

A Killer’s Christmas in Wales
  • Author(s): Elizabeth J Duncan
  • Location(s): Conwy
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In the quaint Conwy area of North Welsh a village is in full swing in the run up to Christmas. But homes are being robbed and there is a swindler targetting elderly women out of their lifesavings. Penny Brannigan,...

Brass in Pocket

Brass in Pocket
  • Author(s): Stephen Puleston
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

North Wales: It is the middle of the night …The road is deserted …A killer is waiting … Two traffic officers are killed on an isolated mountain pass in North Wales. Inspector Drake is called to the scene and quickly...

Cold Remains

Cold Remains
  • Author(s): Sally Spedding
  • Location(s): Carmarthenshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jason Robbins arrives at the eerie Heron House in deepest Carmarthenshire for a writing course, he soon meets its two weird servants who seem to exercise a sinister power over their scheming employer, Monty Flynn. Another newcomer is...

Deep Country

Deep Country
  • Author(s): Neil Ansell
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Deep Country is Neil Ansell’s account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales. ‘I lived alone in this cottage for five years, summer and winter, with no transport, no phone. This is the story of...

Finding Camlann

Finding Camlann
  • Author(s): Sean Pidgeon
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Oxford, The West Country, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Archaeologist Donald Gladstone is sure that there never was a “real” King Arthur—that is, until a surprising find at Stonehenge seems to offer hard evidence of Arthur’s existence. Teaming up with Julia Llewellyn, a gifted linguist working at the...

Leap the Wild Water

Leap the Wild Water
  • Author(s): Jenny Lloyd
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

Megan Jones tries to carve a life of her own, in a community where women are neither equal nor free. Her brother, Morgan, is a man in torment: his Mam has died and he is now desperate to make...

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