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A View Across the Valley: Short Stories by Women from Wales c. 1850 - 1950   (Anthology)
Stories by Allen Raine, Dorothy Edwards, Hilda Vaughan, Brenda Chamberlain, Margiad Evans and others.
( 2002) Full details

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A Woman's Work is Never Done   (Elizabeth Andrews)
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

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About Elin   (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

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Ar fy Myw   (Anthology)
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

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Bells   (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

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Betsy Cadwaladyr: A Balaclava Nurse - An Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis   (Elizabeth Davis; Betsy Cadwaladyr)
A republication of the fascinating story of the nineteenth century Welsh woman Elizabeth Davis, also known as Betsy Cadwaladyr, the 'Balaclava nurse'.
(February 1987) Full details

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Big Cats and Kitten Heels   (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

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Buwch ar y Lein   (Hafina Clwyd)
In these lively diaries we catch a glimpse of the many facets of the dizzy social life of the London Welsh of the 1950s and 60s.
( 1987) Full details

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Catwomen from Hell   (Anthology)
For some wickedness is pleasure, for some it is power, and for some it is sheer survival.Contemporary short stories.
( 2000) Full details

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Changing Times - Welsh Women Writing on the 1950s and 1960s   (Anthology)
Moving, funny, brave and, at times, deeply shocking, this anthology brings together a dazzling collection of experiences from over forty women writers.
( 2003) Full details

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Children of Rebecca   (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

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Chocolate Mousse and Two Spoons   (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

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Clare and Effie   (Merryn Williams)
Moving into her grandmother's big old house in Swansea, the young artist Clare uncovers a secret, and opens up a whole new future for herself.
( 1996) Full details

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Coming up Roses   (Anthology)
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

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Dancing in Circles   (Julia Hawkes-Moore)
The magic of an ancient stone circle is unlocked in the quiet village of Glasmaen.
( 1995) Full details

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Dangerous Women   (PennyAnne Windsor)
A collection of poems focusing on the experiences and attitudes of one woman in today's society.
( 1988) Full details

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Death Studies   (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

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Dew on the Grass   (Eiluned Lewis)
An enchanting autobiographical novel in the Honno classics series and a must for anyone studying 1930's literature.
(November 2006) Full details

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Dragonchild   (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

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Dringo'r Andes   (Eluned Morgan)
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

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Eunice Fleet   (Lily Tobias)
First published in 1933, this the deeply moving story about the treatment of conscientious objectors during the First World War.


( 2004) Full details

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Even the Rain is Different   (Anthology)
A compelling collection spanning 150 years of Welsh women's experiences abroad.
(March 2005) Full details

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Everything in the Garden   (Jo Verity)
A group of fifty-something couples, sell up their city homes to buy a rambling farm-house in the Welsh Marches.
[bold: Read this month's editor's choice by Jo Verity}



(May 2005) Full details

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Exchanges   (Anthology)
A collection of thought-provoking contemporary poems by many of Wales' foremost women poets.
( 1990) Full details

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Facing into the West Wind   (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

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Falling   (Debbie Moon)
A cyber punk thriller of a time traveller trying to prevent her own murder.
( 2003) Full details

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Frozen   (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

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Getting a Life   (Catherine Merriman)
Mammary orgasmic potential, atoms and molecules, the pursuit of beauty, the truth about art ? A highly original collection.
( 2001) Full details

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Girl on the Edge   (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

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Hacio (Cyfres Cled)   (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

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Hector's Talent for Miracles   (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

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Helynt y Twll yn y Wall (Cyfres Cled)   (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

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Iancs, Conshis a Spam   (Anthology)
Atgofion Menywod o'r Ail Ryfel Byd.
( 2002) Full details

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Ice Trap   (Kitty Sewell)
Dafydd Woodruff's life is about to be blown apart by the arrival of unexpected news.He takes an extraordinary journey back to sub-arctic Canada to confront his demons.
(October 2005) Full details

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In Her Element  
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

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Iron and Gold   (Hilda Vaughan)
A skilful retelling of the best known Welsh Fairy Bride folktale, ' The Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach.'


( 2002) Full details

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Laughing not Laughing   (Anthology)
A unique autobiographical collection of from 26 authors writing about their sexual experiences.
( 2004) Full details

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Like Oranges   (PennyAnne Windsor)
'Full of optimism and lovely rhythms.' - Guardian


( 1989) Full details

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Losing Timo   (Linda Baxter)
A profoundly moving experience- Menna Elfyn
( 2004) Full details

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Lottie   (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

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Luminous and Forlorn: Contemporary Short Stories By Women From Wales   (Anthology)
Honno's first collection of short stories and winner of the Raymond Williams award.


( 1994) Full details

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Mirror Mirror   (Anthology)
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..."


( 2004) Full details

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More Than Just a Hairdresser   (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

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Morphine and Dolly Mixtures   (Carol-Ann Courtney)
A true and compelling story of an eleven-year-old girl who, after her mother died of a brain tumour, was left in charge of three younger brothers and a baby sister.
( 1989) Full details

£4.50     Out of print


Morphine and Dolly Mixtures   (Carol-Ann Courtney)
A true and compelling story of an eleven-year-old girl who, after her mother died of a brain tumour, was left in charge of three younger brothers and a baby sister.
( 1989) Full details

£8.95     Out of print


Mwy nag Aur (Cyfres Cled)   (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

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My Cheating Heart   (Anthology)
Twenty-five original stories of intrigue, infidelity and betrayal


(October 2005) Full details

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Not Singing Exactly   (Siân James)
Women awake to all sorts of realisations which change their lives in this inspiring short story collection.
( 1996) Full details

£6.95     Out of print


Of Sons and Stars   (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

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On my Life   (Anthology)

( 1989) Full details

£4.50     Out of print


O'r Iawn ryw   (Anthology)
Yn O'r Iawn Ryw ceir gwaith beirdd profiadol a rhai newydd, a'r cyfan yn cydasio'n flodeugerdd gyffrous ac amrywiol.
( 1992) Full details

£4.50     Out of print


Parachutes and Petticoats - Welsh Women Writing on the Second World War   (Anthology)
With memories of air raids, Mickey-Mouse gas masks and mothers feeding their families on Spam, snoek and dried egg, this anthology is an evocative record of Welsh women's lives during wartime.
( 2003) Full details

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Persons Living or Dead   (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

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Power   (Anthology)
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

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Pwtyn and Pwtan Go To School   (Alys Jones)
The two cheeky hamsters, Pwtyn and Pwtan, plot a day of adventure from their cage and go on an exciting day to school.
( 2001) Full details

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Pwtyn and Pwtan Meet   (Alys Jones)
A funny, action-packed story about Pwtyn the hamster; full of friendship and adventure.
( 2002) Full details

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Pwtyn Escapes   (Alys Jones)
The first of Alys Jones' exciting tales following the adventures of Pwtyn the hamster.
( 1998) Full details

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Queen of the Rushes   (Allen Raine)
First published in 1906, this masterful novel, set at the time of the 1904 Revival, can now be enjoyed again.
( 1998) Full details

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Safe World Gone   (Anthology)
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

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Silly Mothers   (Catherine Merriman)
This debut collection of short stories explores the fantasies, aspirations and self-deceptions which colour our everyday lives.
( 1997) Full details

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Sioned   (Winnie Parry)
The story of a young, mischievous girl and her adventures against the backdrop of Nonconformist, agricultural Caernarvonshire in the nineteenth century.


( 2003) Full details

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Skin Deep   (Jacqueline Jacques)
What if scientists had discovered how to transplant brains into new bodies ? A playful and terrifying thriller.
( 2004) Full details

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Something Must be Done   (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

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Songs of Silence   (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

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Sparrowdance   (Anne Lewis)
A Fantasy quest novel suitable for young adults from 12-17 years


( 2001) Full details

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Strange Blood   (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

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Strange Days Indeed   (Anthology)
Funny, shocking and tender, this is a unique collection of autobiographical writings about motherhood penned by women from Wales.
(March 2007) Full details

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Stranger Within The Gates: A collection of short stories   (Bertha Thomas)
First published in 1912, this is a collection of witty, sharply observed short stories.
(March 2008) Full details

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Strike for a Kingdom   (Menna Gallie)
The secrets and tensions of a close-knit mining community are exposed in the reprint of this 'outstanding detective story', set at the time of the miners' strike in 1926.
( 2003) Full details

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Struggle or Starve - Women's lives in the South Wales valleys between the two World Wars   (Anthology)
A vivid recreation of the lives of working class women during this difficult time of depression, dislocation and dramatic industrial and political struggle.


( 2002) Full details

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Summer Shadows   (Siân James)
A touching novel of heartbreak and hope by this award winning novelist.
( 2004) Full details

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Telyn Egryn   (Elen Egryn)
The first volume in the Honno Welsh Classics series-a milestone in the history of women's poetry in Wales.
( 1998) Full details

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The Floristry Commission   (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

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The Killer Inside   (Lindsay Ashford)
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

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The Lindsay Ashford Series   (Lindsay Ashford)
3 for 2 SPECIAL OFFER Frozen, Strange Blood and Death Studies at a superb offer price.
( 2006) Full details

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The Night Garden   (Jenny Marlowe)
PJ, a fiercely determined teenage girl coping with her own epilepsy and family troubles, discovers a new world on her nightly escapades into her neighbours' forbidden gardens.
( 2000) Full details

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The Pier Glass   (Nia Williams)
A compelling first novel interweaving lives across five centuries in a plot of epic dimensions.
( 2001) Full details

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The Rebecca Rioter   (Amy Dillwyn)
The compelling story of Evan Williams and the notorious Rebecca Riots of the 1830s.
( 2004) Full details

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The Scary Monster Clean-up Gang   (Anne Lewis)
The sequel to Who's Afraid of the Bwgan-Wood, winner of the 1996 Tir na n-Og Award.
( 1999) Full details

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The Ship that Fell Like a Star   (Anne Lewis)
Is it a sign, a weapon or a terrible secret? A gripping fantasy advernture from the award-winning author of Who's Afraid of the Bwgan Wood?
( 2002) Full details

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The Sky over Wales   (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

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The Small Mine   (Menna Gallie)
A Valley community, in particular its women, struggle to come to terms with the tragic death of a young collier.
( 2003) Full details

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The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women’s Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage  
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

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The Woman Who Loved Cucumbers   (Anthology)
A collection of 22 short stories of food as sin, sex, ritual and revenge by new and established women writers from Wales.
( 2002) Full details

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The Wooden Doctor   (Margiad Evans)
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

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This Was A Small Death   (Janet Dubé)
This moving sequence of poems wrestles with the death of the poet's baby son through sudden infant death syndrome
( 1997) Full details

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Travels with a Duchess   (Menna Gallie)
Just how much trouble can a Welsh Shirley Valentine get into on a foreign holiday ? Deliciously funny
( 1996) Full details

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Vixen   (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.


( 1996) Full details

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Walking to Greenham: How the Peace Camp Began and the Cold War Ended   (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

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Welsh Women's Poetry 1460-2001   (Anthology)
This groundbreaking volume is the first bilingual anthology of Welsh women's poetry.
( 2003) Full details

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Who's Afraid of the Bwgan Wood?   (Anne Lewis)
A fantasy Children's novel for ages 7-11 years old.Winner of the Welsh Books Council Tir na n-Og Award
( 2004) Full details

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YT and His Holiness   (Jennifer Rhead)
After a drunken fall down the stairs, Laura drifts in and out of consciousness for three days. This is her story, told with uncompromising honesty and savage anger.
( 1998) Full details

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   (Renée Smith)
Moving between familiar and foreign worlds, this is a stunning story of first love paralysed by old mysteries and half-understood hatreds.
( 1996) Full details

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