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And - A Memoir of My mother

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And - A Memoir of My mother

Isabel Adonis was born in London in 1951, to Welshwoman Catherine Alice Hughes, and renowned Guyanese artist Denis Williams, whose work has been exhibited in the Tate Gallery. Growing up in London, Sudan and Wales, with a cold and distant father and an isolated mother, Adonis explores the nature of…
Betrayal: Peggin’s Journey from the Ladies of Llangollen to Pontcysyllte - A Short Distance but at Great Cost

Historical fiction

Betrayal: Peggin's Journey from the Ladies of Llangollen to Pontcysyllte - A Short Distance but at Great Cost

A novel centred on a headstrong working-class girl in 18th-century north Wales. Peggin is a maid to the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, a gay couple who moved in the literary circles of Byron and Wordsworth. Abandoned by her family, she finds her long-lost brother Joe overseeing the building of Thomas…
Faster Than the Swords

Faster Than the Swords

It's summer 1843 - the time of the Rebecca Riots - and feelings are running high in the Tywi valley. The teenage twins of Tafarn y Wawr in Llangadog find themselves caught up in the struggle, but they need to learn from the gyspy Mari Lee how to run faster…
Birdsplaining

Birdsplaining

In pursuit of those moments of feeling 'sharply alive', confronting fear of the body's betrayals, and roaming across Wales, Scotland, California and the Middle East, Birdsplaining is unapologetically focused on the uniqueness of women’s experience of nature and the constraints placed upon it. Sometimes bristling, always ethical, it upends...

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