Honno Press: 75 books

Will hairdresser sleuth Shirley be able to juggle her two careers and a budding romance?

25th in the Welsh Women's Classics series. First published in 1932 and set in the second half of the 19th century, Crumbling Pageant is the story of Catherine Jones and her obsession with the decaying Morfa mansion. The house was once splendid, now its owners, the Morys family are almost bankrupt...

Anthology of wholly original ghostly tales from new and established Welsh women writers

Two women struggle with love, family duty, long-buried secrets and their own creative ambitions. But more than a hundred years ago Ann left a trail through London, Cornwall and Wales that leads Carys on a tantalising and increasingly shocking search for the truth. What is the connection of the dilapidated...

A weekend long hen party goes wrong when the girls are confined to quarters by a rampaging big cat. The police and fire services come to their rescue only to imperil the wedding they'd set out to celebrate.

Two sisters, their grandmother’s old house and Angharad... the girl who cannot leave. Meredith discovers a dusty sewing box in a disused attic. Once open the box releases the ghost of Angharad, a Victorian child-woman with a horrific secret she must share. Angharad slowly reveals her story...

Nick Talbot is heartbroken: his family home burned to the ground and the love of his live married to anither. Added to which, his passion for the stage has made him the mainspring of the theatre's greatest-ever company. Tucked away in Verona, Kit Marlowe - according to history a dead man - continues to write his wondrous plays to be perfomed at the Globe in the name of Will Shakespeare.

Nick Talbot, 16-year-old son of the late first Earl of Rokesby, escapes the clutches of his tyrannical guardian by running away with Will Kempe's troupe of travelling players. They bring him to London and into a hotbed of political and sexual intrigue. Nick is a talented lad and soon comes to the...

Winner of the Pure Gold Libraries award. Ellie has fallen in love with a high-flying City lawyer, but when her heart gets broken there s not much choice but to decamp from their illicit 5 star love-nest in Primrose Hill to the rather more humdrum confines of her grandad Trevor's house in Clapham....

Haunting tale from the Dark Ages. Will and his brother Ned are conscripted children, ditch diggers for the new castle at Flint. Suspected for treachery they must flee into the wilds in the midst of winter

A nostalgic look back at the vanished way of life of an 18th century marriage at sea.

The boy looks up and sees the foreigner's rifle aimed at him. Why is this man here? This is not his conflict, it is not the boy's... it is hell. Jay has been home for a long time, but the ghosts of Yugoslavia are still with him as he busks his way round the country. Marilyn is fresh out of a controlling...

Fifth novel from Richard and Judy Award winner Jo Verity, author of Sweets from Morocco a "pitch perfect evocation of childhood and sibling relationships" Marcel Theroux A bomb explodes in central London and the shockwaves disrupt the lives of everyone in the vicinity. Australian ex-pat...

Ham is resting - if that's what you can call 12-hour shifts in Najib Khan's corner shop. The acting work has dried up, but the shelf stacking and 'wagging of chins' with his eccentric Afghan employer is proving fertile ground for his latest project. Prompted by a desire to make his fortune at last,...