Fiction (adults)

Description I Am the Mask Maker and other stories brings together 11 of Rhiannon Lewis's compelling short stories. They transport us to places as v...

Description Full of tales of fighting clergymen, poisoned arrows and deathbed confessionals, James Stafford's An Illustrated History of Welsh Rugby...

Description Faced with two murders, industrial espionage, a sexual predator, and a mining disaster, Thomas Chard must puzzle how these things fit t...

Description Something was the matter with Ivor. It wasn't that he hadn't enough coal in his fire, he had plenty. It wasn't that he hadn't enough wa...

Description A novel set in a mining valley in south Wales during World War II. First friendships among a group of boys are seen from the perspectiv...

Description THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER: INTRODUCING DC FFION MORGAN, IN THE UNMISSABLE NEW SERIES FROM CLARE MACKINTOSH On New Year'...

Description The second title in the landmark series, the Library of Wales. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Mat...

Description Funny, lyrical and poignant, Shifts is a novel of the decline of industry and of the south Wales working class in the 1970s. It broke n...

Description Twins Ana and Nan are lost after their mother's death. Everyone knows who drove Elena, the renowned novelist, to suicide – her long-ter...

ISBN: 9781783964048 Publication Date November 2018Publisher: Elliot and Thompson Limited, Tonbridge Format: Hardback, 222x142 mm, 200 pages Languag...

Description Spanning three centuries and telling the story of three women who come to 'share' a house in Denbigh. It opens at Lleweni, just outside...

Description A showcase of the next wave of talent from Welsh women writers, this collection hosts an all-female cast, covering themes of travel, ar...

Description It's 1903 and widespread calls for social and gender reform flounder against entrenched misogyny. Navigating this world are best friend...

Description The Long Field braids the essential hiraeth stories of Wales with Pamela Petro's own life - as an American who loves Wales, as a gay wo...

Description An uplifting novel of family secrets and fresh starts. Grace is clearing her late husband’s things, when she discovers he had another f...

Description   Fighting to free herself from a toxic relationship, 21-year-old Lora escapes to her recently widowed grandmother's home in Hamburg. ...

Description In this anthology, writers from across Wales provide literary reflections on maps and rooms, and reveal a long held and layered relatio...

Description Today has been a long time coming. Irene sits at her mother's side waiting for the moment at which she will know she is doing the right...

Description Character-driven working-class tragicomedy set in Wales, with an underlying theme of loss. Widowed ex-miner Johnny finds coal on his al...

Description When Mr Collins is found murdered in Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s garden, simmering tensions are revealed beneath the elegant Regency sur...

Description In the majestic mountains of North Wales, retired MI5 agent Huw Cecil is reluctantly drawn back into a world of espionage and murder. W...

Description 2019: Following her father's death, Carole decides to use her inheritance to buy a remote traditional cottage outside the village in mi...

Description Listen. The bee walks across my finger, slow as anything and I can see through the gauzy wing, to the detail of my skin. You aren't loo...

Description In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who lived the decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claim your identity, and ...

Description A bitterly intelligent and gruesomely funny journey through the worlds of work, sex and rugby. Lewis Davies ruthlessly dissects a passi...

Description The story of one woman’s life in rural mid Wales at the turn of the 20th c. Despite poverty and setbacks, she climbs the ladder to beco...

Description Octogenarian language geek Vernon, who’s never written a book, tries to find a way to write the story of his long marriage to Hannah. U...

Description Set in a slightly alternative reality, when a husband or wife in the community dies the grieving partner can get a replacement; they ge...

Description A surf-obsessed brother and sister embark on a journey in a camper van. The van was given to them by their father Geoff, and his last r...

Description A heartfelt novel exploring how we find the light when we are at our darkest place. The Rituals is the author-translated version of Y D...

Desription The sequel to 'The Boat Shed' The spectacular Glaslyn EstuaryA treacherous sand-barThe rules of the sea... “Know your tides, Miss Jones....

ISBN: 9781786891914 Publication Date January 2019Publisher: Canongate Books, Edinburgh Format: Paperback, 197x128 mm, 234 pages Language: English T...

Description Cardiff in 1878 is grimy, crowded and grey, and Ellen dreams of escaping her dreary life as a domestic for the sea. But when she falls ...

Description An original novel that will have you crying both with laughter and sadness. Scrap is a story of displacement and belonging set in post-...

Description It's 1967, and the war still casts a shadow. Ruth was a child resistance fighter; her secret past sends daughter Katya on a dangerous c...

Description From the Wales Book of the Year shortlisted author of The Memory comes a powerful story of domestic violence, courage and forgiveness. ...