Blogs in March 2020

HIDE 29th March 2020

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...

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Wild Spinning Girls 17th March 2020

Ty’r Cwmwl held its breath for years after the previous owner died. The house made room for her ghost. She brought magic with her. Ida Llewellyn loses her job and her parents in the space of a few weeks...

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Snowflakes Over Holly Cove 25th November 2019

As the snowflakes start to fall, Holly Cove welcomes a new tenant to the beautiful old cottage on the beach… For lifestyle magazine journalist Tia Armstrong, relationships, as well as Christmas, have lost all their magic. Yet Tia is...

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Talking to the Dead 16th August 2019

A young prostitute lies dead in a Cardiff squat. Her six-year-old lies dead beside her. It looks like an ordinary murder scene . . . except that a millionaire’s platinum bank card lies among the debris. How did it...

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How Green Was My Valley 4th July 2019

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...

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