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After the Clearances

After the Clearances
  • Author(s): Alison Layland
  • Location(s): Wales, Bardsey Island, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi
  • Era(s): Near future (2056)

The Seeders, a self-sufficient community, flee to a remote Welsh island to escape the government’s repressive Clearances, and cultivate a new way of living. But 13-year-old Seeder, Glesni, suspects her family is hiding something. When Sandy, a vengeful mainlander,...

Allegation

Allegation
  • Author(s): R G Adams
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sandbeach, South Wales. Two women have come forward to make historical sexual allegations against a pillar of the small community. Now, child- safeguarding protocol demands social services to remove the accused from his home and family till a formal...

Anglesey Blue

Anglesey Blue
  • Author(s): Dylan H Jones
  • Location(s): Anglesey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

MURDER. BETRAYAL. REVENGE. It’s not the homecoming Detective Inspector Tudor Manx was expecting, but solving the case is just the start of his problems. Recently transferred from the London Met to the North Wales Constabulary, Detective Inspector Tudor Manx...

Assembling the Wingpeople

Assembling the Wingpeople
  • Author(s): Nicky Bond
  • Location(s): Aberystwyth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day - published in 2021

Can Tilda uproot her life and start again when her personality avoids risk-taking at every opportunity? Is Bea really in love with Mal or is her HRT causing emotional turbulence? And how long can Stewart use his estranged father’s...

August

August
  • Author(s): Gerard Woodward
  • Location(s): London, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Ever since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans’s first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. Aldous has started to...

Before the Mountain Falls

Before the Mountain Falls
  • Author(s): Luisa A Jones
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In 1939 a young London seamstress, jilted and disgraced, escapes her past by faking a marriage and finds herself in a strict Welsh community where her modern ways clash with the minister who takes her in.

Beneath the Apple Blossom

Beneath the Apple Blossom
  • Location(s): Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Cheltenham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four women, linked by blood ties, friendship, betrayal, loss and hope, struggle with the choices they’ve made and the hand that life’s dealt them. All Pippa’s ever wanted is marriage and kids, but at thirty-four and about to embark...

Binary Witness

Binary Witness
  • Author(s): Rosie Claverton
  • Location(s): Cardiff
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Police detectives rely on Amy Lane to track the digital debris of their most elusive criminals—when she’s not in the throes of a panic attack. After two students disappear in Cardiff , Amy uncovers photographic evidence that they’ve been...

Blood and Stone

Blood and Stone
  • Author(s): Chris Collett
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Grieving the death of his ex-lover, Detective Inspector Tom Mariner has taken two weeks’ leave to recuperate, seeking peace and solitude in a remote corner of Wales. The last thing he imagined was to find himself caught up in...

BLUE HOLLOW

BLUE HOLLOW
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): Mid Wales
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Haunting truths resurface from the depths of the past in this unputdownable mystery When her old family friend Eddie asks her to write his memoirs, little does journalist Dora Lewis know he has a bag full of secrets to...

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