Honno Press: 75 books

1893: Mary, a desperately poor cleaner, is a witness to murder. Archie, one of the first artists to work for the police, to support his other work, draws the man she says she saw at the scene. Fascinated by her 'face full of bones', he persuades her to sit for a portrait, but the man who buys the...

Amanda ran from an abusive marriage in Saudi Arabia with her four sons and infant daughter, Aisha. She found sanctuary at Blossom House – in the loving embrace of a community of women who understood. But always at the back of her mind was the fear that Muhammed would come for his children. Ash...

Nell needs to be in control; her brother Haz brings a friend to stay at their Welsh seaside cottage and neither Nell nor Haz are safe anymore as the interloper unearths a family secret.

Romantic comedy with a difference. Godfrey is on the point of retirement, a miser looking forward to a change of life has his world turned upside down when his niece arrives with a baby in tow.

Albi is nine years old when Franco’s soldiers arrive in the village and his life begins to change in confusing ways. It’s not clear quite who should be trusted and who should not. Some neighbours disappear not to be seen again, others are hidden from view in cellars and stables – like his brother,...

Stella lives on the Welsh coast but longs to break away from the confines of rural life in the '50s. Funded by an unexpected windfall she flies to America in search of her dreams.

Is love ever enough? Anne is in Ghana for the first time. Her father, Dick, has been working up country for an NGO since his daughter was a small child. They no longer really know each other. A few days into Anne's six-month stay, the houseboy Moses returns from a trip and Anne is left with a growing...

Newly promoted DS Julie Kite is at a crossroads. Her husband’s new job takes her away from urban Manchester and its inner city problems to a new life in tranquil mid-Wales. It is to be a new start for them both. On her first day at Builth Wells police station, Julie is thrust unexpectedly into the...

Some secrets take their time to travel home Gareth Maddox has his own successful Cardiff Bay law firm, a clever and talented wife and four perfectly imperfect children. Then along comes Cassandra Taylor, managing director of a Canadian shirt company wanting to set up a major manufacturing plant in...

A gripping Gothic tale of possession, madness and murder, Hilda Vaughan’s Harvest Home, first published in 1936, is set in ‘Abercoran’ on the south-west coast of Wales during the reign of George III. One fine morning Daniel Hafod rides home from England to become Master of ‘Great House’...

‘Charming, quirky, magical’ Joanne Harris. Nothing hurts like not knowing who you are. Nobody will tell Cadi anything about her father and her sister. ‘Carol Lovekin’s prose is full of beautifully strange poetry.’ Rebecca Mascull, author of The Visitors and Song of the Sea Maid. In a world...

Peggy is eighty and the family are having a birthday party. Her son's gift of a beautifully crafted notebook comes with a request… Peggy's not so keen on telling her own story, but each of her family and neighbours has a story to tell, revealing not just Peggy's life but that of her village, tucked...

I started on light switches … I had to run my fingertip along every bit of the light switch – the edges, the corners, the button – in a particular order and pattern … If I didn’t get it just right, maybe bad things would happen. Sylvester spends a lot of time in his room, under the...

A gripping 13th century adventure, ranging across Europe from the near East to the far West of Wales… Sophia is disguised as a young male - a necessary lie if she's to survive the journey ahead of her. When her herbalist grandmother dies, leaving the girl to an uncertain future, Sophia takes to...