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HARBOUR NO SECRETS

HARBOUR NO SECRETS
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): South Wales, Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

When a young woman is found in a lake, murdered, the police become intrigued by the strange dynamics within her circle of friends. It’s Alys Pugh’s birthday and her mates are organising a little surprise for her. When she...

Her Last Holiday

Her Last Holiday
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Gozo, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You come to Soul Shrink to be healed. You don’t expect to die. Two years ago, Fran’s sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat in Gozo that went terribly wrong. Tom Wade, the now infamous man behind Soul Shrink...

Her Nanny’s Secret

Her Nanny’s Secret
  • Author(s): Jan Baynham
  • Location(s): Wales, Normandy
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941, 1963

It’s 1941; Annie Beynon defies convention by working as a stable girl for the wealthy Pryce family whose son leaves to join the RAF. She has a secret that when it’s threatened to become exposed, she makes a shocking...

Her Sister’s Secret

Her Sister’s Secret
  • Author(s): Jan Baynham
  • Location(s): Wales, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1946, 1966

In 1966, Jennifer Howells discovers that she has been living a lie and her parents are not who she thinks they were. She rebels and her family, already fractured from a deeply held secret, is further split. She puts...

Hidden Chapters

Hidden Chapters
  • Author(s): Mary Grand
  • Location(s): Rhossili Bay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Catrin survives by denying her past. Her marriage is in crisis. She has devoted herself for eighteen years to bringing up her adopted Deaf daughter, Bethan. She is unaware that her life is about to be shattered by the...

HIDE

HIDE
  • Author(s): S J Morgan
  • Location(s): Cardiff, Swansea, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 80s

Like a dark unsettling road movie, Hide takes us on a chilling ride from 80s urban Britain to the menace of the Australian outback. It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff...

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley
  • Location(s): South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn’s How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a mining community in rural South...

Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers

Inspector Hobbes and the Gold Diggers
  • Author(s): Wilkie Martin
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds, Wales
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fantasy, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Receiving unwanted attention after foiling an armed robbery, the unhuman Inspector Hobbes takes a long-overdue camping holiday, with Andy, his accident-prone friend, and Dregs, the delinquent dog. In the bleak and dangerous Blacker Mountains, Andy stumbles across something shocking,...

Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago

Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
  • Author(s): Patrick Barkham
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like the Isle of Man, resemble miniature nations, with their own language and tax laws; others, like Ray Island in Essex, are...

Kinmel Revisited

Kinmel Revisited
  • Author(s): Robert James Bridge
  • Location(s): North Wales
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919

The cover is of St Margaret’s Church Bodelwyddan, North Wales. This is the home of five Canadian Soldiers graves, plus many more who fought bravely in each and every war! Today one could perhaps be forgiven for not noticing...

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