Alun looks after things.The old railway. The willow by the black pond. The moss he presses into the joins so the arrangements hold. His mother, in the chair by the telly, who still makes his tea the way he likes it.It is August in Caerphilly. The heat has soaked into the land and will not let go. Four old men have already been found. One has not. Alun does not watch the news for long. He has his routes, and as long as the routes are his, the house will stay as it is.

ROUTE TO OMEGA is the account of a spiritual, not a religious, journey, realistic rather than pious, a word the writer considers more harmful than helpful. It begins from the honest premise that most of us remain, to some degree, a mystery even to ourselves.There is humour here, with light and shade, alongside a candid reckoning with what it means to come to terms with oneself, however late in life that reckoning arrives. David Rees finds people's demand for happiness disconcerting...

Where Now the Smile... Hymn Book Volume IIIn the hills and housing estates around Caerphilly, three people remain bound by a childhood they cannot fully escape.Glen moves between the respectable life he has built with his wife and children and the damaged one he shares with Janine and Alun. Janine rarely leaves her flat, carrying a silence that those around her do not know how to reach. Alun still walks the old paths through the hills, leaving strange offer...

In the remote valleys of Mid Wales, the land remembers.When a small research team arrives to assess an isolated valley for cultural and environmental protection, they find more than mist and standing stones. The place the locals call the Scar is not simply a geological feature. It is watching. It has rules. And it does not forgive those who break them.Jilly, a young researcher still finding her place in the world, quickly senses that something is wrong. Paths shift. Time sl...

Bethan has spent years keeping the past buried. As an administrator in local government, she is good at systems, at process, at moving things forward. But when she is sent to persuade an old man to give up his home for a regeneration project, something begins to crack.Memories she has long ignored start to surface, of a girl called Lily, of laughter that was never kind, and of a moment in childhood she has never allowed herself to examine. As the days pass, the boundaries between h...

In the shadow of Caerphilly's forgotten quarries, where ancient Welsh legends whisper warnings from the deep, Rhodri returns to claim his estranged uncle's crumbling estate. But what begins as a reluctant inheritance unravels into a nightmarish descent into "Weird Wales." A realm where glitches bleed into reality, and the knock-knock of mythical Coblynau miners echoes as a curse.Haunted by ghostly visions of his lost love and fractured family secrets, Rhodri uncovers a forbidden le...

In the glitch-haunted sprawl of DragonGrid—a cloud-shrouded megacity where Welsh valleys twisted into silicon nightmares—Draze clings to fragile shards of the past, echoes of loss pulsing through his wired mind like eroding code.But a shadowy job pulls him into forbidden depths, unleashing a devouring force: a rogue entity forged in war's forgotten fires, starving for the raw essence of human nightmares. As realities fracture and veils thin, Draze must risk it all to choke the beas...

The Milkman's on His Way was first published in 1982 and is one of the first queer young adult novels to appear in the UK. It tells the story of Ewan McCrae, a gay teenager living in Cornwall, struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. To explore his identity, Ewan leaves his claustrophobic home town for London, where he hopes to find people who are just like him. For many gay teenagers of the early 1980s The Milkman's on His Way was a rare chance to read a life-affirming story that p...

In the South Welsh town of Caerphilly, the hills remember what the streets try to forget.Abigail, estate agent with deep family roots, carries a childhood scar and a restlessness she cannot name. Rhian, supermarket manager and member of a sprawling local family, feels the growing weight of every path she never took.They meet through the Caerphilly Warblers, a small birdwatching group that climbs the same mountain each week. As the five walkers move through wind-scoured ligh...

In the misty valleys of South Wales, a man collapses on Aber's busy streets with a fatal wound, his final moments shrouded in dawn's eerie haze. Enter Inspector Price: a steadfast detective blending unyielding grit with profound compassion, navigating a world where toughness and kindness are the keys to survival.What begins as a suspected mugging near a shadowy cemetery spirals into chilling intrigue. Forensics uncover a premeditated strike, and a faded vintage photo awakens long-b...

This book brings together, in sixteen chapters, those elements of the mechanics of plasticity most pertinent to engineers. A textbook style has been adopted in which worked examples and exercises illustrate the application of the theoretical material. The latter is provided with appropriate references to journals and other published sources. An appendix contains worked examples to selected exercises.The presentation of the introductory material, the theoretical developments and the...

Song in the Waves is an exciting collection of 5 science fiction tales.People at the edge of existence, people who have lost everything, and yet, people who hold so much hope.They struggle against a humanity which has lost the skill of understanding, and a cold universe, callous and indifferent.In the end, each of them reaches deep within to find a new way forward.Science Fiction Tales Volume 1