(Amy Dillwyn, ed.Alison Favre)
Heiress Ethel Carton is robbed of her prized jewels. A local collier and poacher is accused. The villain goes unsuspected until he falls for the headstrong yet moral heroine Imogen Rhys. (August 2009) Full details
(Margaret Pelling)
A touching and compelling story of love and loss from a new Honno voice, set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, rural West Wales and urban North London. (August 2011) Full details
(Thorne Moore)
1933:Gwen's duty to her husband John has a terrible price. Now: Sarah becomes obsessed with restoring her grandparents' ruined farm. Be careful when you look into your family history. You may not like... (October 2012) Full details
(Allen Raine, ed.Jane Aaron)
'They say she's a real witch,' says Goronwy Hughes' grandmother, warning him of Catrin Rees, the heroine of A Welsh Witch. The sea-side village of Treswnd has elected Catrin as its scapegoat, shunning... (March 2013) Full details
(Elizabeth Andrews, ed.Ursula Masson)
This new collection brings together for the first time the influential activist Elizabeth Andrews' memoir with many of her political articles from the 1920s-40s. ( 2006) Full details
(Jackie Davies)
Elin Pritchard, ex-firebrand, is back home for her brother's funeral. Returning brings all sorts of emotions to the fore, memories good and bad, her own and those of the community she left behind. (September 2007) Full details
Honno's 25th anniversary anthology, brings together a wonderful and absorbing collection of writing by Welsh women taken from the fiction and non-fiction anthologies published by the press over the la... (May 2012) Full details
Honno's 25th anniversary anthology, brings together a wonderful and absorbing collection of writing by Welsh women taken from the fiction and non-fiction anthologies published by the press over the la... (May 2012) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Manon Rhys)
Hwyl a helynt, gorfoledd a galar menywod o bob oed ac o bob cwr o Gymru. Pum ysgrif fuddugol cystadleuaeth a thameidiau blasus eraill: am hipis Llandeilo, am genhadu ym Madagascar, am fywydau - cyfa... ( 1989) Full details
Ellie is brokenhearted and so decamps home. Tea and sympathy from grandad Trevor help, as does the distracting and hunky Gabriel, then a visitor ... (March 2009) Full details
(Jo Verity)
When Jack dons his Morrismen's bells it brings a new zest for life…and for the beguiling Non. But will wife, Fay, also be tempted to play away? (May 2007) Full details
(Claire Peate)
Rachel - suffering from a Dull Life Crisis - embarks on an action-packed hen weekend. But there's a 'big cat' on the loose and only a handsome Welshman in wellies between Rachel and a vicious killer..... (July 2007) Full details
(Jane Ellis, ed.Rhiannon Ifans)
The first Welsh volume by a woman, these poems cast light on the female experience, the hymn in Wales, Methodism, industrialization, & the nature of women's poetry in 19th century Wales. (August 2010) Full details
(Judith Barrow)
The war is over but Mary still has to keep her relationship with Peter, a German ex-POW, secret. Sister Ellen & best friend Jean expect Mary to fix their troubles too. A vivid story of austerity B... (May 2013) Full details
Life in the 50s and 60s still meant segregation and inequality for many women, but it also brought rock-n-roll, rising hemlines and the first signs of female emancipation since the vote. (January 2010) Full details
(Vivien A Bailey)
Set against the turbulent background of the Rebecca Riots a story of separation, political turmoil and back-breaking poverty but also love and fulfilment. ( 1995) Full details
(Lorraine Jenkin)
Lettie Howells has missed her chance – at love, at a career, at life – or so she thinks. A gently humorous take on the perils of dating when you're a flirty over-thirty (April 2008) Full details
(Lorraine Jenkin)
Iestyn and Menna were schoolfriends, but the path of true love is a rough farm track. Ladies man Johnny 'Sandwich' Brechan changes his ways when his help is called for. Esther is struggling to love he... (July 2010) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Caroline Oakley)
Stories for the Green Fingered:From birth to death, horror to hilarity – a collection of stories for gardeners at home and away. (January 2008) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Stephanie Tillotson)
An anthology of fictional short stories that explores the intensely personal relationships women have with what they wear. (January 2010) Full details
An anthology of the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009], which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in the village of Chawton, where she spent most of her literar... (October 2009) Full details
(Bethany Hallett)
Poignant, honest and intimate, Dear Mummy, Welcome is the true story of one woman's fight against the odds, and a little girl's
journey to find a mother. (November 2011) Full details
(Lindsay Ashford)
Third title in the Megan Rhys crime series. A body turns up, miraculously preserved, in the bog behind the golf course. ( 2006) Full details
(Eiluned Lewis)
An enchanting autobiographical novel in the Honno classics series and a must for anyone studying 1930's literature. (November 2006) Full details
(Anne Lewis)
Something is wrong with the magic. Something is feeding on it. The whole world is at stake... Third in the award-winning Bwgan Wood series. ( 2003) Full details
(Eluned Morgan, ed.Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Kathryn Hughes) Dringo'r Andes (1904) (Climbing the Andes) and Gwymon y Môr (1909) (Seaweed) are creative travel journals, the former chronicles a horse ride to the Andes, and ... ( 2001) Full details
(Lorraine Jenkin)
Godfrey is about to put years of careful saving to good use.Georgia needs a bolthole for the new baby. Mansel is on the brink of his dream relationship.And the bottom is falling out of Audrey's world.... (July 2009) Full details
(Juliet Greenwood)
Sometimes you have to run away, sometimes you have to come home: Two women a century apart struggling with love, family duty, long buried secrets, and their own creative ambitions. (March 2012) Full details
(Lily Tobias, ed.Jasmine Donahaye)
First published in 1933, this the deeply moving story about the treatment of conscientious objectors during the First World War.
(Lara Clough)
Jason may be lost and friendless, but he has a gift. He has a face people confess to.And those confessions are going to change everything ... (October 2006) Full details
(M. Stanford-Smith)
The final installment of the exciting Nicholas Talbot adventures! Nick is married to Rosalyne and are riding hard for Scotland to avoid the trouble brewing at Court... (June 2012) Full details
(Joanna Davies)
Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll amidst the ivory towers in the early 90s…what it's like to leave home and find a whole new world waiting, one that is frequently unkind to the unwary and inexperienced. (March 2010) Full details
(Lindsay Ashford)
The first title in the Megan Rhys crime series from Lindsay Ashford.
Two young prostitutes have been murdered but there is something wrong with the information the police are giving Megan. (November 2003) Full details
(Catherine Merriman)
Mammary orgasmic potential, atoms and molecules, the pursuit of beauty, the truth about art ? A highly original collection. ( 2001) Full details
(Rachel V Knox)
Just how did her mother die and what did Leila witness on the cliff top, if anything? A compelling psychological thriller set in the moors of North Wales. (May 2006) Full details
(Claire Peate)
Edda gets the terrible news that best-friend Beth is deserting her for family life but a final wine-fuelled night sees her joining secret group the Brockley Spades & life gets a lot more exciting… (February 2011) Full details
(Malorie Blackman)
Daw Ceri a Moi adre o'r ysgol un diwrnod i glywed bod eu tad wedi cael ei arestio; mae'r banc lle mae'n gweithio wedi gyhuddo o ddwyn dros filiwn o bunnoedd. ( 1998) Full details
(Claire Peate)
Ambitious young journalist Kate and newly appointed Dean, Archie - more Converse All Stars than socks-and-sandals - find themselves thrown together to solve the mystery of the disappearing skulls. (March 2009) Full details
(Kitty Harri)
Mair's search for her lost grandfather takes her from a dull veterinary surgery in Cardiff to the heat & passion of Spain - to uncover her own family's secrets, and those of the intriguing Hector…... (February 2007) Full details
(Malorie Blackman)
"Teclyn-ddyn" yw enw Ffiffi - neu Ffion, a rhoi ei henw iawn iddi - ar ei thad am ei fod yn dyfeision pob math o bethau rhyfedd, yn cynnwys Pecynnau Ysbio a bisgedi sy'n ffrwydro! ( 1999) Full details
(Hilda Vaughan, ed.Diana Wallace)
Romance blooms between Laetitia, the beautiful bookish daughter of the local Squire, and Gronwy, son of a tenant farmer, who longs to be a scholar. But Gronwy and Laetitia are trapped by circumstance.... (September 2012) Full details
(Hilary Shepherd)
Anne is in Ghana for the first time - her father has been working up country since she was a small child and they no longer really know each other. A few days into her stay, the houseboy Moses returns... ( ) Full details
20 women writers from all over Wales recount their deep personal connections to the landscapes which have shaped their lives – their loves, their joys, their losses, their inner and their outer worlds... (June 2008) Full details
The perfect gift for the Jane Austen Fan in your life - an intriguing novel that delves into the private lives of the Austen family, and two wonderful anthologies of the winning entries to the Jane A... (November 2011) Full details
(Amy Dillwyn, ed.Kirsti Bohata)
Jill is an unconventional heroine – a lady who disguises herself as a maid and runs away to London. Life above and below stairs is portrayed with irreverent wit in this fast-paced story. But at the ... (September 2013) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Catherine Merriman)
A unique autobiographical collection of from 26 authors writing about their sexual experiences. ( 2004) Full details
(Sara Maria Saunders (S.M.S., ed.Rosanne Reeves), ed.Rosanne Reeves)
The stories of an observant female writer about characters in rural Wales during the golden era of Nonconformity. (August 2012) Full details
(Linda Baxter)
"They killed our son just for the fun of it." London: June 1999: Hungerford Bridge. A haunting account of the events after the terrible night of the murder of the author's son. ( 2004) Full details
(Jacqueline Jacques)
A fascinating first novel following the lives and loves of six girls from the days of beatniks to the eve of the millennium. ( 1997) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Patricia Duncker, Janet Thomas)
25 new short stories by women from Wales, including stories by Patricia Duncker, Jo Mazelis, Jenny Sullivan, and Nia Williams, writing on the theme of " The Other Woman..."
(Nia Pritchard)
Mobile hairdresser Shirley and sidekick Oli use the tools of their trade to covertly trail a client's philandering hubbie... A heartwarming belly-laugh of a book. (November 2007) Full details
(Nia Pritchard)
It's not just her wedding that Shirley's got to organise. There's Oli's adoption of a demanding dog, tracking down of errant husbands, and a hen weekend with the factory girls to be squeezed in. (November 2009) Full details
(Meinir Wyn Edwards)
Un o'r ychydig bethau oedd gan Tracey, Lisa a Sam yn gyffredin oedd eu bod ill tri yn edrych ymlaen yn fawr at y trip ysgol i hen gloddfeydd aur Dolaucothi. ( 1995) Full details
Loves lost, loves regained and loves that hide themselves away... fourteen stories, new and rediscovered, from the best of Welsh women's writing. (January 2013) Full details
(Jo Verity)
Two middle-aged women, one handsome tv star and three teenagers: Elizabeth was hoping for a week of wine and chat, Diane for help with her dilemma and Jordan certainly wasn't planning to spend a week... (March 2011) Full details
(Catherine Merriman)
'I would say this author was born to write' - Lynne Reid Banks. This is Catherine Merriman's second collection of short stories, following Silly Mothers. ( 1997) Full details
Women were the backbone of the country's war effort, 'keeping calm' and 'carrying on' on the frontline and under bombardment in the UK. But there were good times alongside the bad. (January 2010) Full details
(Judith Barrow)
Mary is a nurse at a Lancashire prison camp for German POWs. Work is difficult but fulfilling, home just difficult. The only light on her horizon is a friendship with one of the German doctors. (May 2010) Full details
(Jane Ann Jones, ed.Cathryn A. Charnell-White)
Her use of daring and highly personal themes drove Louie Myfanwy Davies (1908–68) to use the pseudonym Jane Ann Jones. Pererinion is a bittersweet autobiographical novella about the relationship of a ... (October 2008) Full details
(Nia Williams)
When two women excavate an abandoned garden, they find they have much more in common than an errant husband and son. A passionate story of love and loss. (September 2005) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Elin ap Hywel)
Established authors such as Jenny Sullivan, Clare Morgan and Nia Willams join with new writers in this inspirational second collection of stories from Honno. ( 1998) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Patricia Duncker; Janet Thomas)
In these 28 stories, by turns funny, touching and scary, Welsh women authors explore the turning points that can change a woman's life forever. (January 2007) Full details
(Gillian Morgan)
Twenty-year old Stella's quietly conservative life is diagnosed as in need of a major change by her glamorous friend. 'Salt Blue' is Stella's journey from seaside Wales to upstate New York, from child... (April 2010) Full details
(M. Stanford-Smith)
Nicholas is heartbroken–his home burned down and the love of his life married to another. In this second adventure he looks for more than transient thrills but his ability to find trouble is unerring… (June 2011) Full details
(Catherine Merriman)
This debut collection of short stories explores the fantasies, aspirations and self-deceptions which colour our everyday lives. ( 1997) Full details
(Winnie Parry, ed.Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Kathryn Hughes)
The story of a young, mischievous girl and her adventures against the backdrop of Nonconformist, agricultural Caernarvonshire in the nineteenth century.
(Jacqueline Jacques)
What if scientists had discovered how to transplant brains into new bodies ? A playful and terrifying thriller. ( 2004) Full details
(Dora Beale Polk)
Set in South Wales in the 1930s, this is a powerful story told with the lightness of touch and warmth of the Ealing comedies. ( 2003) Full details
(Patricia Barrie)
Divided by forty years, Rhodri, a hill farmer and poet, and Owen, a doctor on sick leave from his London practice, are living on different parts of the same mountain in Wales but are they listening? ( 1999) Full details
(Lindsay Ashford)
Women are dying with pentagrams carved on their faces. Satanic ritual or cunning deception? Second title in the Megan Rhys crime thriller series.Shortlisted for Theakston's Old peculier Crime ... (April 2005) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Lindsay Ashford; Rebecca Tope)
Funny, shocking and tender, this is a unique collection of autobiographical writings about motherhood penned by women from Wales. (March 2007) Full details
(Menna Gallie, ed.Angela V. John)
The secrets and tensions of a close-knit mining community are exposed in this 'outstanding detective story', set at the time of the miners' strike in 1926, originally reprinted by Honno in 2003, now i... (March 2011) Full details
A vivid recreation of the lives of working class women during this difficult time of depression, dislocation and dramatic industrial and political struggle. (October 2009) Full details
(Jo Verity)
Gordon has to go... Tessa and Lewis decide that something must be done when the arrival of baby Gordon threatens their, so far, perfect childhood. A bittersweet story of sibling love and rivalry. (January 2009) Full details
(Elen Egryn (Elin Evans, ed.Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Kathryn Hughes), ed.Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Kathryn Hughes)
The first volume in the Honno Welsh Classics series-a milestone in the history of women's poetry in Wales. ( 1998) Full details
(Eiluned Lewis, ed.Katie Gramich)
Lettice Peters travelled the world on her husband's ships, but has now settled with her children in the little cathedral town of 'St Idris' in Pembrokeshire. (September 2008) Full details
(Jacqueline Jacques)
As this gripping thriller uncoils, Jacqueline Jacques paints an intricate, vibrant picture of the layers of Victorian London, where the poor are commodities, criminals have nothing to lose and the ric... (January 2013) Full details
(Claire Peate)
A heart-warming romp through village life from a talented first time novelist. WHSmith Book of the month in Wales,April 2006. (February 2006) Full details
(M. Stanford-Smith)
Nick runs away from the clutches of a tyrannical guardian with a troupe of travelling players. They bring him to London – a hotbed of political and sexual intrigue, where he must find a way to survive... (June 2010) Full details
(Lindsay Ashford, ed.Caroline Oakley)
When the predators become the prey, not even prison bars will keep them safe. The fourth title in the Megan Rhys crime thriller series (February 2008) Full details
(Lindsay Ashford) CRIME SPECIAL: 4 for 3 SPECIAL OFFER! Buy all four great titles in Lindsay Ashford's acclaimed Megan Rhys crime thriller series at a superb offer price. ( 2008) Full details
(Lindsay Ashford)
No-one has ever been able to provide a satisfactory explanation for the tragically early death of Jane Austen. A shocking new possibility emerges in this intriguing novel...
(Siân James)
Award winning author Siân James offers us a delightful glimpse into her early childhood days in Cardiganshire, beautifully illustrated by Pat Gregory. ( 1997) Full details
(Menna Gallie, ed.Jane Aaron)
A Valley community, in particular its women, struggle to come to terms with the tragic death of a young collier. Originally republished by Honno in 2003 and now in a new edition with an updated introd... (September 2010) Full details
A vivid account in their own words of the diverse political struggles of women in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Wales. (October 2007) Full details
(Caroline Ross)
A brief wartime romance leaves Rosie heartbroken and pregnant, not knowing if Philip - on a suicide mission designed to stop the Nazi invasion - is alive or dead. (October 2008) Full details
(Margiad Evans, ed.Sue Asbee)
First published in 1933, this is the gripping story of an obsessed adolescent, her alcoholic father, and a strange, seemingly incurable disease. (February 2005) Full details
(Menna Gallie, ed.Angela V. John)
Just how much trouble can a Welsh Shirley Valentine get into on a foreign holiday? Deliciously funny, acerbic and honest. First published in 1968, originally reprinted by Honno in 1996, now in a new e... (March 2011) Full details
(Bethan Darwin)
Love is never perfect… Two entwined stories – Anna as a girl, discovering the pleasures and pain of first love, and Anna on the verge of middle-age trying to find a happy compromise between romance an... (October 2010) Full details
(Glenda Beagan)
The twin pulls of motherhood and independence are explored through the central figure of the vixen in Glenda Beagan's first collection of poems.
(Ann Pettitt)
A unique first hand account by the progenitor of the march, of one of the 20th century's most iconic expressions of grass roots political will. (August 2006) Full details
(Anthology, ed.Katie Gramich, Catherine Brennan)
This groundbreaking volume is the first bilingual anthology of Welsh women's poetry. ( 2003) Full details
(Dorothy Edwards, ed.Claire Flay)
Young clerk Arnold Nettle arrives in a small village as summer fades. Repulsed by his crude working-class landlady he becomes enamoured of the respectable Neran family, who have their own difficulties... (September 2011) Full details
The winning stories from the Short Story Competition inspired by Jane Austen and Chawton House. Judged and introduced by award winning novelist Michele Roberts. (November 2011) Full details
This latest collection of short stories from Honno showcases a wide range of imaginative takes on what constitutes crime fiction. (February 2009) Full details
(Menna Gallie, ed.Angela V John; Claire Connolly)
Threatened by breast cancer, Welsh-born Sarah Thomas seeks a 'last' holiday in Ulster with two close Catholic friends, the Moores, and a former lover, a Protestant left-wing journalist. (September 2010) Full details
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