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Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.'.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.'.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Will and his brother Ned are commandeered into the army of ditch-diggers whose task it is to build the foundations for Edward I's castle at Flint. But the lads are nervous - and not just because they're far from home. Ned is a mute whose affinity with horses and skills as a herbalist make him suspicious in the eyes of their English overseers. In addition, Ned has been tutored by the exiled Welsh bard, Ieuan ap y Gof. An atmospheric and unusually affecting first novel, rich in historical and cultural detail.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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'.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 14 women authors write about love, desire, heartbreak, sex, longing and guilt. Happy and sad, funny and fierce, they include stories of marriage, first love, affairs, what might have been, and all the messy joy and pain of human relationships. Some of these stories are new from some of Wales' best women writers; others are Welsh-language stories available in English for the first time. The writing is beautiful, modern, human and honest.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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?

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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?

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This latest collection of short stories from Honno showcases a wide range of imaginative takes on what constitutes crime fiction. From bodies buried under the patio to old ladies with enviable inheritances, from a Chandleresque pastiche to police procedurals and fathers with an undue interest in their daughters, Welsh women writers prove themselves adept at taking an innovative sideways look at man's inhumanity to man - and, more especially, woman.

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

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Published in conjunction with Chawton House, Dancing With Mr Darcy is an anthology of the winning entries to the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in Chawton House - a place where she spent the most productive years of her literary life. The intention of the prize is to publish the very best short fiction inspired by Jane Austen or Chawton House.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Newly promoted DS Julie Kite has been in sleepy mid-Wales for mere months when she's faced with her second murder case. A man's body has been found by school kids trekking the Monk's Trod. The trail takes her back north to her parents in Manchester and to a housing estate in Blackpool. It's not a simple case - a young mother has disappeared, but so has her son and her next door neighbour's wife. And the husband of the landlady of the BandB where the girl was staying. When an exserviceman farmhand with PTSD attempts to take his own life the case gets more complex still.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Newly promoted DS Julie Kite has been in sleepy mid-Wales for mere months when she's faced with her second murder case. A man's body has been found by school kids trekking the Monk's Trod. The trail takes her back north to her parents in Manchester and to a housing estate in Blackpool. It's not a simple case - a young mother has disappeared, but so has her son and her next door neighbour's wife. And the husband of the landlady of the BandB where the girl was staying. When an exserviceman farmhand with PTSD attempts to take his own life the case gets more complex still.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 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.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Kate Marsden: nurse, intrepid adventurer, saviour of the lepers. or devious manipulator, immoral and dishonest? As she lies on her deathbed visited by the ghosts of her past, who should we believe, Kate or those who accuse her of duplicity? Memory is a fickle thing: recollections may be frozen in time or distorted by the mirror of wishful thinking. Kate's own story is one of incredible achievements, illicit love affairs and desperate longing; those of her accusers paint a very different portrait - of a woman determined on fame and fortune. The reader navigates a narrative as fractured as the Siberian ice Kate crosses in search of a cure for leprosy, and as beautiful as Rose, her lost love, as the full picture of a life lived when women were not expected to break the mould emerges.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Cadi is angry at not being allowed to ask about her father and her sister - she wants to know who she is. Her mother Violet believes she can control her terrors only by refusing to talk about them. And Lili, Cadi's aunt, is stuck in the middle. In a world of hauntings and magic, in a small village where it rains all August, this summer the secrets and the ghosts are finally waking up and none of the Hopkins women will be able to escape them.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Middle-aged Karen is suddenly reminded of an incident from her childhood and is obseessed with tracking down her old playmates. She soon finds herself on a journey into a land of secrets and lies. Getting to the truth and finding Serena Whinn means upsetting the careful attempts all the girls have made to build normal lives for themselves in the aftermath of the disappearance of poor little Janice. The Unravelling is Thorne Moore's story of a child psychopath and the damage she inflicts on the personalities she toys with.

Paperback. Condizione: New. With twin boys only months old, Amanda arrives in Saudi Arabia to live with her husband Mohammed. Her new life is strange and confusing and sometimes frightening. Amanda can barely understand Arabic and the treatment of the women of the family seems wrong to a girl raised in Wales. To add to her problems, Mohammed proves to be verbally and physically abusive - especially once they have their own flat away from the protection of the wider family. Somehow Amanda must escape, but not without her children.