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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 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 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...

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....

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...

Happily Married

Happily Married
  • Author(s): Victoria Jenkins
  • Location(s): Carmarthenshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

My husband is keeping secrets. I’m watching his every move… Jake and I were childhood sweethearts. Strong, dependable and with a smile that melts my heart, he is the perfect husband and father to our beautiful little daughter. We...

The Detour

The Detour
  • Author(s): Gerbrand Bakker
  • Location(s): Snowdonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The newcomer introduces herself as “Emilie” – not her real name. That we don’t learn until the closing pages of this novel: indeed, there’s much about her we don’t know. We know only that she is newly arrived from...

The Red House

The Red House
  • Author(s): Mark Haddon
  • Location(s): Hay-on-Wye
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After his mother’s death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children,...

Sheepshagger

Sheepshagger
  • Author(s): Niall Griffiths
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Written in rough, tough and fiercely native prose, Sheepshagger is a coming-of-age ensemble novel about a bunch of promiscuous, disenchanted, druggy Welsh youngsters, growing up in a world from which they feel disconnected, surrounded by a beautiful countryside they...

A Game of Lies

A Game of Lies
  • Author(s): Clare Mackintosh
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say the camera never lies. But on this show, you can’t trust anything you see. Stranded in the Welsh mountains, seven reality show contestants have no idea what they’ve signed up for. Each of these strangers has a...

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