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      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        December 2011

        Perfect Architect

        by Joso, Jayne

        Gaia's husband Charles was an architect. Having discovered love letters after Charles' sudden death, Gaia is knocked back hard. She sets about organising a competition to design her perfect home, choosing the competitors from among her husband's former ad

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        November 2007

        Salvage

        by Williams, Gee

        A short break in a shoreline cottage is an ideal place to struggle with your demons. For Elly and Martin it is the chance to forget their hasty exit from Paradise following scandal. But Elly makes a life-changing find on the tideline. It is a huge pink di

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        April 2008

        Twenty Thousand Saints

        by Dafydd, Fflur

        Archaeologist Deian returns to the island of his childhood, where his mother disappeared without a trace. Sister Viv, closet heretic and host of the annual conference of hermits, has erected a gold plaque in her memory, declaring her official sainthood. M

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        April 2008

        The Untogether

        by Nichols, Jeb Loy

        A Love story - intimate, warm, drily humorous - about the missing parts of our lives, and the things we fill them with... Lee is a grown man with a sweet tooth and a mild case of uniform fetish. A phone call from a distant hospital summons him to the beds

      • Short stories
        September 2010

        Always the Love of Someone

        by Lawrence, Huw

        Sinister impulses lurk behind Greg’s acclaimed portraits of his wife. Mair, an unemployed actress, loves her unemployed husband but sleeps with a television producer. A divorced couple find themselves staring at reunion. A talented tramp in a dirty pyjama

      • Memoirs
        May 2011

        The Vagabond's Breakfast

        by Gwyn, Richard

        In 2006, Richard Gwyn was given a year to live. He had lost nine years of his life to vagrancy and alcoholism in the Mediterranean, principally Spain and Crete. This memoir is an account of those years; redemption via friendship, imagination, intellect, l

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        April 2009

        Soothing Music for Stray Cats

        by Joso, Jayne

        Mark's best friend Jim just jumped from the twentieth floor, forcing him to reassess the way he’s been living. This contemporary rites of passage novel is a calm, cool, and well-controlled fiction debut flooded with warmth and humanity. With the reflectio

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        June 2010

        Faith, Hope and Love

        by Owen, Llwyd

        Alun Brady was a bit of a Mummy's Boy, stuck at home at 30 in the suburbs. When grandfather Paddy makes his deathbed in their spare room, he brings fresh air into Al's cushy number and makes Al face the hardest decision of his life. Later, just out of pri

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2010

        Bumping

        by Bianchi, Tony

        Over at Nicky’s place, somebody’s dumped twenty stolen chairs in the backyard. What does she care? They call her a fat slag at school and all her mam can do is watch Relocation, Relocation and dream of being elsewhere. Nicky prefers to dream of Barry, who

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        February 2007

        Liminal

        by Keil, Chris

        Aled is used to his dad Geraint waxing lyrical about some saint's clifftop lookout; some Greek temple or another hosting a thousand sacred prostitutes; some village near Corinth. Geraint is the county archaeologist, after all. So when travel agent Aled ta

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        April 2008

        The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum

        by Simpson, Penny

        It is Berlin, 1929. The inflation-hungry city is edging towards disaster, but seven foot Jewish orphan Esther Rosenbaum is serving up a banquet for friends. They are the bohemians, artists and kabarett composers who have sampled her finest recipes in the

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        March 2010

        The Deer Wedding

        by Simpson, Penny

        The Deer Wedding is a novel set in Croatia, spanning two generations, two brutal wars and two very special works of art. In 1941, artist Antun Fiskovic' experiences a sea-change in his fortunes following the dramatic revelation of the identity of his real

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        November 2010

        Bamboo Grove

        by Wood, Romy

        A pseudo-Buddhist monk, an illegal immigrant, a teenager with precarious mental health and a quixotic pair of young businessmen chancing their luck. All of them intricately, messily bound by the unique and rather dubious organization that is Eastern Visio

      • Crime & mystery
        June 2011

        Dovetail

        by Hughes, Jeremy

        Attacked as a boy by bullies, Tim is left with the most serious loss he will face as a man. As a man he is out to revenge himself one by one on the gang by enacting the perfect murder. But first of all he must become a supreme craftsman. A psychological t

      • Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)
        December 2008

        The Great Purple Sphere

        by James, Huw

        Money's tight in Jasper Tuttle's house. He's not expecting any special summer holiday when Professor Lightship invites his family to guard his boathouse. A hidden shaft leads Jasper and his reluctant companion Emily on a strange and dangerous journey. Tra

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