Books published by Honno Ltd

Two years into Darragh O''Grady''s new life as a crop duster in 1930s America, everything is changed when he spots an abandoned farm from the cockpit of his plane. Despite its reportedly tragic history he buys the house and land - and the dark lake at its heart - marries indomitable but damaged Beattie Darling, and sets about making a home. But will the O''Gradys'' love for one another prove powerful enough to overcome the hardships of a life punctuated by loss, and can they escape the lake''s mysterious legacies?

Written as a series of nature journals, Margiad Evans'' Autobiography (1943), is an extraordinary experiment in what she called ''earth writing''. It explores in delicate and precise detail the writer''s intensely-felt, even mystical relationship with the natural world. From 1941, she lived in a farmworker''s cottage, Potacre, on the summit of a hill above Llangarron and in sight of the Welsh mountains. A meditation on the difficulty of translating the reality of the ''now'' into words, Autobiography traces a spiritual journey towards understanding the profound connection between all living things.

Newly promoted DS Julie Kite has been in sleepy mid-Wales for mere months when she''s faced with her second murder case. A man''s body has been found by school kids trekking the Monk''s Trod. The trail takes her back north to her parents in Manchester and to a housing estate in Blackpool. It''s not a simple case - a young mother has disappeared, but so has her son and her next door neighbour''s wife. And the husband of the landlady of the B&B where the girl was staying. When an exserviceman farmhand with PTSD attempts to take his own life the case gets more complex still.

A gripping Gothic tale of possession, madness and murder, Hilda Vaughan''s Harvest Home (1936), is set in Abercoran on the south-west coast of Wales in the time of George III. Daniel Hafod rides home from England one fine morning to become Master of Great House after the death of his uncle. But his obsessive pride and his dark desire for the pretty dairy-maid Eiluned lead to his downfall, as he and his sailor cousin, Dan, compete for her love. A lyrical evocation of Welsh rural life, Harvest Home is also a tautly-written psychological study of a man driven mad by desire which draws on the history of wreckers then active on the Welsh sea-coast, the legend of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogi, and superstitions associated with Nos Calangaeaf (All Hallows Eve) when spirit voices call out the names of those soon to die.

1997: Elizabeth''s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Her mother decides to claim compensation from the Hungarian Government - hard enough for someone with a clear mind, but near impossible for an impulsive heavy drinker teetering towards dementia. TV journalist Elizabeth is pursuing a story of child abduction in the Hassidic community. In the wake of her father''s sudden death and her mother''s increasing obsession with wartime Hungary she struggles to keep her job and her relationship. Then she gets a phone call to say that her mother has been arrested in Budapest.

Jill is an unconventional heroine - a lady who disguises herself as a maid and runs away to London. Life above and below stairs is portrayed with irreverent wit in this fast-paced story. But at the centre of the novel is Jill''s unfolding love for her mistress. On the surface a feminist manifesto, Jill is a poignant story of same-sex desire and unrequited love. An accessible new introduction tells the autobiographical story on which the novel is based - the author''s own passionate attachment to a woman she called her wife, but who she couldn''t have.