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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...

A Killing on the Coast Path

A Killing on the Coast Path
  • Author(s): Nicola Clifford
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A normally quiet community in Pembrokeshire is shaken by an escalation of serious incidents Having just about survived a head-to-head with her previous boss, uniform sergeant Vicki Blunt is enjoying a quiet night patrolling the streets of Haverfordwest when...

A Knot of Sparrows

A Knot of Sparrows
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welsh detective Winter Meadows takes on a new murder case There were a lot of things you could call Stacey Evans. And many of them would be true. And unprintable. But did she deserve to be murdered? DI Winter...

A Murder in Pembrokeshire

A Murder in Pembrokeshire
  • Author(s): Nicola Clifford
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

The first novel in an absolutely gripping new female detective series set in West Wales Sergeant Vicki Blunt has been demoted to uniform after challenging her snide superior, DI Glyn Hughes. But when a woman is found dead in...

A Shadow on the Lens

A Shadow on the Lens
  • Author(s): Sam Hurcom
  • Location(s): Dinas Powys, Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

1904. Thomas Bexley, one of the first forensic photographers, is called to the sleepy and remote Welsh village of Dinas Powys, several miles down the coast from the thriving port of Cardiff. A young girl by the name of...

A Stitch in Time in Applewell

A Stitch in Time in Applewell
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): present day

It’s not just hems that are frayed in Applewell… Gracie rescues old clothes and cast offs from Applewell’s charity shop, making them into cute and fresh outfits, which she then sells in her little shop. Turning a profit is...

A Terrible Kindness

A Terrible Kindness
  • Author(s): Jo Browning Wroe
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Aberfan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Around 1960s

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . It is October 1966 and William Lavery is having the night of his life at his first black-tie do. But,...

A Time For Silence

A Time For Silence
  • Author(s): Thorne Moore
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

When Sarah, struggling to get over tragedy, stumbles across her grandparents’ ruined farm, it feels as if the house has been waiting for her. She is drawn to their apparently idyllic way of life and starts to look into...

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Aberystwyth Mon Amour
  • Author(s): Malcolm Pryce
  • Location(s): Aberystwyth
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town’s private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find...

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