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The Coward’s Tale

The Coward’s Tale
  • Author(s): Vanessa Gebbie
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘My name is Laddy Merridew. I’m a cry-baby. I’m sorry.’ ‘And my name is Ianto Jenkins. I am a coward. And that’s worse.’ The boy Laddy Merridew, sent to live with his grandmother, stumbles off the bus into a...

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)

The Hideaway (Norma Curtis)
  • Author(s): Norma Curtis
  • Location(s): Bergen-Belsen, London, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII / Present Day

1945. Hedi Fischer is jostled off the train and through the gates of a Nazi concentration camp. As the prisoners are pushed inside, she frantically searches for a familiar face – anybody to make her feel less alone here....

The Hotel

The Hotel
  • Author(s): Louise Mumford
  • Location(s): Cardiganshire, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Four of them went to the hotel Four students travel to Ravencliffe, an eerie abandoned hotel perched on steep cliffs on the Welsh coast. After a series of unexplained accidents, only three of them leave. The fourth, Leo, disappears,...

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 London Train

The London Train
  • Author(s): Tessa Hadley
  • Location(s): Cardiff, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The London Train is a novel in two parts, separate but wound together around a single moment, examining in vivid detail two lives stretched between two cities. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise, and their...

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 Welsh Girl

The Welsh Girl
  • Author(s): Peter Ho Davies
  • Location(s): Snowdonia, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1940s

In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess: in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city: and in a nearby...

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 –...

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