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The young lovers Gertrude Fitzhammons and Anarawd Gwynne are caught between their fathers' mutual antagonism. Eventually, Gertrudes' adoptive father, the retired sea captain Ricardo Lewis, is forced to flee Britain due to the machinations of old squire Gwynne and Lewis's mortal enemy, Lord Morlif. At the same time, Anarawd is sent abroad in the hope that he forgets his sweetheart. After several years apart, their separate fates lead them to meet again in Naples during the spring revolutions of 1848. After Lewis's betrayal to his death on the republican barricades, a broken-hearted Gertrude returns to her Welsh home. Will Anarawd follow her or seek his fortune abroad in the British Army? Loosely inspired by social and agricultural advancements in the district around the author's home in Porthmadog, Country Landlords (1860) looks at the relationship between the landed gentry and ordinary country population in the early nineteenth-century.

For all her life, idealistic 20-year-old bookworm Magdalena Arber has been split down the middle: veering wildly between fidelity to indoctrinated Nazi beliefs, and her father's humanist values. Then comes the summons - the Nazi War Labour Service is conscripting her into a teaching position in East Prussia. Magda is elated. It's a release from the cosy cage of childhood, and a chance to form young minds. She enters a lush rural world of forests, lakes, and meadows where order prevails. Yet there are monstrous hands out to shape the whole continuum of earthly creatures. The Gestapo are a lurking darkness. There is bombing further East, and news of a moving Russian front. Will Alt Schonbek burn as well? Can Magda survive?

All day long, people hurry to and fro across the waste ground on the fringes of the Bwgan-Wood. Nobody see the eyes peeping out at them from the tangle of the trees. Nobody notices the way the leaves shake when there isn't any wind. Winner of the Welsh academy Prize for children's fiction. Ages 7-11 years.

Second volume of short stories following the sell out success of her first and prize winning novel SILLY MOTHERS. I would say this author was born to write'. Lynne Reid Banks.'

Sequel to WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BWGAN-WOOD. Fantasy and reality blend together here to address pertinent issues such as bullying, delinquency, the price of arrogance and the principal of cuase and effect.

Fourteen stories revealing the issues faced by men and women, grappling, literally or metaphorically with 'getting a life'. Some are poignant, some pitiless, some hilarious, and some are distinctly risky and original. From a woman's exploration of the orgasmic potential of her breasts to a panic-stricken father who takes lessons on trust from his daughter; from tales of sexual ambivalence to a mchine that can 'see' emotions, these stories explore the inner-most fears and desires in us all.

Introduction by Jane Aaron A masterful reworking of a popular Fairy Bride legend examining the institution of marriage, motherhood and the breadth of the female experience. First published in 1948, Hilda Vaughan's classic work is considered indispensable in any consideration of Welsh feminism in the 20th century. Playing with the fairy tale theme of true love as a source of imaginative and material fertility, 'Iron and Gold' raises serious questions about conforming to social conventions versus remaining loyal to one's individuality.

The third in the popular series which started with the award-winning Who's Afraid of the Bwgan-Wood?, this novel for young adults skilfully interweaves real and fantasy worlds to draw the reader into a battle to save the local woods from destruction - a feat only possible by juggling with time zones! Described as a very rich plum-pudding of a novel' by Reader's Report, this is sure to appeal to children and young adults alike, especially those who enjoy adventure, intrigue, fantasy and good writing. Ages 8 and up.'

A vivid recreation of 1930s working class life in South Wales, this powerful story centres around a moving father-daughter relationship. Viddie grows up observing her father's increasingly wild plans to bring the poverty of the 'Valleys' to the attention of London and the royal family - from his first ever telephone call to the daring scheme reserved for the visit of Edward VII to Wales. A tale of crushing poverty, unsung heroes, hope and humour.

Jude is a ReTracer who travels back in time in order to stop disastrous events from happening. It makes her distrusted by most people, alienated from her mother and her lover, and now it has made her a threat to someone... such a threat that someone is willing to throw her off a building. Can Jude find out who wants her dead before she hits the ground?

This is a unique collection of autobiographical writings about sexual experience, penned by women from Wales. The 26 authors of all ages write about a fascinating range of experiences. Some accounts are blissful, some horrific, some farcical, some simply matter-of-fact. As well as a statement about the variety and tenderness of women's sexuality, Laughing, not Laughing is a great read that will entertain, inform, move, and, on occasion, shock the reader.

An autobiographical collection of women writing about living abroad. This book is a celebration of the mix of cultural experience of modern Welsh women. These writings are not of holidays but of significant experiences of life abroad as workers, wives, children or travellers. They are mostly contemporary pieces, but memoirs of pre-war India and Russia in 1930 are included.

Eunice Fleet is a deeply moving novel about the treatment of conscientious objectors in the First World War. Eunice is horrified at her husband's refusal to fight. Ashamed, she refuses to visit him and only after he dies in prison, does she come to see his and her actions differently. First published in 1933, this edition comes with a new introduction by Jasmine Donahaye.

Losing Timo is a collection of writings, prose and poetry, by a mother who has lost her son in a senseless murder. Through the writings, Linda Baxter recounts the aftermath of his death, the trial and life since. It is a compelling book that looks death unflinchingly in the eye. It is also a celebration of all that was Timo.

This vibrant and intense novel, first published in 1933, sees Arabella, a passionate adolescent girl falling in love with her local doctor. She develops a mysterious illness requiring his attention but he is unable to cure it. Finally she declares her love for him, but is rejected and sinks into depression. Moving to a remote farm in Wales she has a brief affair with a young man and agrees to marry him. But a chance meeting with the doctor makes her realise the her young fianc© will never match up to the man she has been obsessed with all her life.

Everything in the Garden is a poignant yet entertaining account of the dilemmas facing women in late-middle age. it is about a group of 50-something couples who sell up their city homes to buy a rambling farmhouse in mid-Wales. They propose to live not communally, but in close harmony, growing old with the support of tried and trusted friends. However, Anna finds that far from supporting her through a string of crises, her friends are becoming strangers. But only then, after being forced to leave, she begins to womder whether they would really miss her if she left...

A collection of fiction exploring the theme of extra marital affairs from the perspective of women. 25 stories are included, including entries from Llanelli-born actress Elizabeth Morgan and Jo Verity, who won a 2003 Richard and Judy short story competition with her contribution.

A personal account from Ann Pettitt, initiator of the Peace March to Greenham Common. Pettitt gives an insider's view into the birth of the Women's Peace Movement, putting it into a personal and historical context.

A collection of 28 short stories focused on pivotal moments. Includes work by Jenny Sullivan, Ruth Joseph and Patricia Duncker.

Mair is looking for her lost grandfather - or at least a trace of his passing. Her journey takes her from a horribly dull veterinary surgery in Cardiff to the heat and passion of Torre del Burros in Spain, an Asturian town popular with pilgrims. There she uncovers not just her family's secrets, but those of the intriguing Hector: who is this scruffy, lanky but somehow mesmerising man - the congenital idiot his family believes him to be? An unsung genius? Or a misunderstood romantic with a heart of gold? Digging into the past - and the Civil War - brings unsettling revelations...

A unique collection of autobiographical writings about motherhood, penned by women from Wales. Funny, shocking and tender, it covers the whole spectrum of what it means to be a mother - from getting pregnant to the empty-nest syndrome. A young woman gets pregnant whilst technically still a virgin; a woman giving birth in a Belgian hospital finds her O level French is useless when questioned about her bowel movements - and a mother faces the reality of her son becoming a heroin addict. These are the untold stories of motherhood.

Investigative psychologist, Megan Rhys, is called in to help the police with the murder of a young mother who has been brutally killed and a pentagram carved in her forehead. While the media-obsessed police chief wants to call it a satanic ritual, Megan keeps an open mind and starts investigating the details of the victim's life - and the lives of the other victims as the murders increase. But then Megan makes a dangerous mistake herself...

Megan Rhys is due at a police conference on sex offenders - not a particularly nice subject, but at least it'll get her out of the office, where she can spend a few days at her grandmother's cottage in Borth. It turns out not to be quite the kind of break she was anticipating when a body turns up, miraculously preserved, in the bog behind the golf course. Is the mutilated bogman an ancient or modern relic of man's murderous instinct? Only time and the pathologits will tell, but not before Megan's forensic skills and her unerring gut instinct are tested to the limit...

Middle-aged Jack dances away from home - with a Morris dancing outift! When one of his summer weekend gigs is unexpectedly cancelled, he books himself into the Welcome Stranger in Llangwm, for a weekend that - along with the accommodating young woman behind the desk - changes his life. Meanwhile his wife, Fay, pining for her youngest son who is away travelling, offers a home to one of his old bandmates - and conceives a passion for the young son of one of her closest friends. Will their marriage survive the draw of new and exotic lovers?

The fourth book in the crime series featuring forensic psychologist Megan Rhys. In this volume, she is investingating the unusually high suicide rate among prisoners at the grim Victorian Balsall gate jail in Birmingham. While she is there, yet another death occurs. To the police, it is just another drug overdose. But Megan is not convinced and she suspects foul play. If her instinct is right, who did it? An inmate? A prison officer? Or someone from the outside? A worthy new talent.' - The Guardian on Lindsay Ashford'

From birth to death, horror to hilarity, this is a collection of stories for gardeners at home and away. Welsh women write about what gardens mean to them, what happens in them and where they take them... An Italian POW returns home to a mixed welcome from his family; a tale of loss set around a memorial oak sapling; memory and what it means to lose it; love between a mother and a daughter; and more. These are tales of sadness and happiness, home and abroad, which share a love of plants and planting, flowers and seeds, and the power of growing things to change lives.

First published in 1912, this is a collection of witty, sharply observed short stories which engage with feminism and the fast' New Women of the 1890s. Features narratives which explore the personal and emotional conflict experienced by people torn between multiple ethnicities or different social and national groups. Bertha Thomas lightly but deftly sketches her characters with a sharp eye for humorous and satirical detail.'

Lettie Howells is at an all-time low romantically, and the ageing tourist population of her home town Lyme Regis don't help, either. So her housemates and super-sorted sister sign her up to Lonely Hearts, a dating agency, and she meets Doug - a jolly but once-bitten' hunk of a Welsh forester. But the path of true love does not run smoothly when friends and relations muddy things up. Lettie's job in a seafront cafe doesn't stop her yearning to make more of her painting, and a trip to Doug's village provides new canvasses and a brush with fame and fortune thanks to reality tv.'

Rosie is special - her dad is a Romany horse whisperer - but not everyone thinks so. Phillip does, but then he's special too: a Cambridge undergraduate who's refused a commission to throw in his lot with the men who've volunteered for a suicide mission designed to stop the Nazi invasion. For two idyllic days they indulge their passion, but then Phillip is spirited away to France - but like many of his mates, he doesn't come back. Rosie is left heartbroken and pregnant, her only hope of refuge a Catholic home for fallen women, where she faces losing her son.