Honno Press: 75 books

The lady’s here. The lady with the big bag. She’s knocking on the front door. She’s knocking and knocking. I’m not opening the door. I’m not letting her in. I’m behind the black chair. I’m waiting for her to go away. Tomos lives with his mother. He longs to return to another place,...

14 women authors write about love, desire, heartbreak, sex, longing and guilt. Happy and sad, funny and fierce, they include stories of marriage, first love, affairs, what might have been, and all the messy joy and pain of human relationships. Some of these stories are new from some of Wales's best...

It’s 1911 and Winifred Duffy is a determined young woman eager for new experiences, for a life beyond the grocer’s shop counter ruled over by her domineering mother. The scars of Bill Howarth’s troubled childhood linger. The only light in his life comes from a chance encounter with Winifred,...

Nick Talbot is in Flight. The Elizabethan gentleman-spy and entrepeneur must outwit his enemy Mowbray, recently escaped from the Tower, and ensure that playwright Christopher Marlowe, secretly returned from Europe, isn't recognised by those who've long thought him dead. As Marlowe's Hamlet debuts...

From the Top Ten Bestselling Author of A Time for Silence When they were ten everybody wanted to be Serena's friend, to find themselves one of the inner circle. But doing so meant proving your worth, and doing that often had consequences it's not nice to think about – not even thirty-five...

It's 2006 and Alex Mullen is coming to terms with a terrible past. Meeting up with Frankie, who shared the bad times, exposes one of Australia's cruelest secrets. In Falmouth, 1942, commando Philip Seymour sails for France. Left on the quayside is Rosie, a half-Romany girl looking for something more...

Sequel to The Colours of Corruption. Three people on a crowded train, brought there by the same crime. Archie Price, painter and police artist, blessed with a photographic memory, is travelling to Chelmsford to testify in a murder trial. The accused, Freddie Porter, is under police escort in the guard's...

With twin boys only months old, Amanda arrives in Saudi Arabia to live with her husband Mohammed. Her new life is strange and confusing and sometimes frightening. Amanda can barely understand Arabic and the treatment of the women of the family seems wrong to a girl raised in Wales. To add to her problems,...

Forensic psychologist Megan Rhys in inside Balsall Gate jail when prisoner Carl kelly dies, a rictus grin distorting his features. But is this death what it seems - another drug oversose the authorities would like cleaned up as quickly as possible, or something more sinister. The fourth Megan Rhys novel from Lindsay Ashford.

Sequel to the acclaimed Changing Patterns and Pattern of Shadows. It's 1969 and Mary Schormann is living quietly in Wales with her ex-POW husband, Peter, and her teenage twins, Richard and Victoria. Her niece, Linda Booth, is a nurse - following in Mary's footsteps - and works in the maternity ward...

When Sarah, struggling to get over tragedy, stumbles across her grandparents' ruined farm, it feels as if the house has been waiting for her. She is drawn to their apparently idyllic way of life and starts to look into her family history only to learn that her grandfather, Jack, was murdered. Why...

Lestyn Bevan is happiest up to his armpits in sheep dip - unhappy in his brother's cast-off finery. Menna Edwards is an expert ram wrestler, but her bathroom owes more to Homes and Gardens than the Farmer's mart. Toghether they should be a match made in heaven, but a Welsh hill farm isn't the most romantic of wooing grounds...'

Love is never perfect. Anna's two stories tell of first love and the compromise between romance and real life.

Mary is a nursing sister at a Lancashire prison camp for the housing and treatment of German POWs. Life at work is difficult but fulfilling; life at home a constant round of arguments - often prompted by her fly-by-night sister, Ellen, the apple of her shorttempered father's eye. Then Frank turns...