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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

A hilarious guide to the lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening"...I am so thrilled David Rees is picking up the reins of the forgotten art of manual graphite-encased-in-wood point-crafting. I love my pencil!"—AMY SEDARIS"You may think that sharpening a pencil is easy, but David Rees makes it look hard, and that makes all the difference."—JOHN HODGMAN"Truly, my life before I was presented with correct...

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...

Ewan Macrae is gay. At the turn of the 1980s, being queer in a Cornish seaside town seems impossible.The teenage world he lives in is obsessed with girls, jobs and surfing, yet the handsome Leslie - his ripped surfing buddy - preoccupies Ewan's thoughts.Unsure if his parents will ever accept his sexuality, Ewan knows that in his claustrophobic hometown he'll never fully be himself. Perhaps in a bustling and far-away city like London there is a whole new world waiting......

In the mist-shrouded valleys and forgotten corners of South Wales, the past doesn't fade—it bleeds through, whispering secrets that twist the ordinary into the uncanny. Hauntologies: Alpha, the first omnibus in David Rees-Thomas's acclaimed series, collects Volumes 1 and 2—Cleaners and Other Weird Tales and Unfinished Stories in a Seaside Town and Other Weird Tales—delivering eight tales of spectral dread and eerie introspection across over 200 pages, complete with a brand-new introduction...

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