Books published by Honno Welsh Women's Press

Windstill is set in Hamburg in the winter of 2015. Lora, a 22-year-old university drop-out, is staying with her widowed German grandmother after the sudden death of her grandfather. The novel takes place in the week following the funeral, where all kinds of uninvited guests and unexpected histories emerge. Elfriede''s buried postwar memories resurface after her husband''s death, and Lora must somehow protect her grandmother from a puzzling history while negotiating her own heartbreak.

A popular history telling the stories of a varied group of people who found refuge in Wales from the scourge of National Socialism in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. The book is designed to resonate with those who have personal experience of similar situations, those looking to understand the refugee experience, young people investigating Welsh and European history and the stories of their ancestors, as well as the general history reader. The book will include a chapter - a kind of historical postscript - on the experience of contemporary Syrian refugees.

Twenty original stories commissioned for this new volume... A striking collection of the widest range of crime short stories from contemporary urban thriller to historical rural mystery and the speculative and uncanny. This collection includes a range of authors from established, award-winning Welsh authors, to unpublished gems from rising talent.

The ''70s wasn''t all glam rock and flares, punk and pogo-ing In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who lived the decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claim your identity, and carve out your place amidst the winter of discontent, the scorching summer of ''76 and the rise of Thatcherism. One young woman says a forced goodbye to her newborn baby. Another grasps new opportunities and sets sail on a LGP Tanker with a crew of men. A third asserts her sexual identity. A fourth sets up a kitchen table business that launches an international brand. These stories of ambition and adventure, motherhood and marriage, are by turns heart-breaking, humorous, and honest.

Grace is clearing her late husband''s things, when she finds evidence her husband had another family. She and her daughter Kat travel to Montenegro to find them, but when they meet Rosa and her son Luka they have different reactions - Grace is deeply hurt by her husband''s betrayal, while Kat is fascinated by her brother. Kat works as a chef and Rosa owns Cafe Lompar, so they are drawn together by their shared passion for great food. Where does that leave Grace? Can mother and daughter navigate painful emotions, new opportunities and new loves, without tearing their relationship apart?

Winter, 1904, and feisty twenty-one-year old Ellen has been summoned back from her new life in Hoboken, New Jersey, to the family farm on windswept Gower, in a last bid to prevent the impending death of her alcoholic father. On her return, she finds the family in disarray. Ailing William is gambling away large swathes of Thomas land; frustrated Eleanor is mourning the husband she once knew; and Ellen''s younger twin brothers face difficult choices. Ellen, tasked with putting her family''s lives in order, finds herself battling one impossible decision after another.

Set 35 before the events of A Time for Silence in 1833, the Owens are set to lose tenancy of the family farmstead of Cwmderwen following the death of the eldest son. As patriarch Thomas slides into religious obsession, Leah tries to keep the legacy of her brother alive for his son John. As the forces of religion, morality, greed and family feuds gather, Leah finds herself torn between her duty to others and her duty to herself.

Mark gradually ingratiates himself into the life of his nex-door neighbour Freya, who is struggling with the death of her own husband. Freya, lost in a sea of grief, only slowly begins to realise that Mark''s motives may not be quite as compassionate as they seem and her eyes are opened to the threat she has guilelessly invited into her home.

A reprint of the Welsh classic.

The first biography of the bestselling author and journalist Marguerite Jervis.

Ida loses her job and her parents in the space of a few weeks and, thrown completely off course, she sets off to Wales to the house her father has left her. But Heather, the young woman still in her teens whose home it was, keeps the house as a shrine to her late mother and is determined to scare Ida away. The two girls battle with suspicion and fear before discovering that the secrets harboured by their thoughtless parents have grown rotten with time, and that any ghosts Ty''r Cwmwl harbours are of their own making.

Margiad Evans (1909 - 1958), essayist, memoirist, novelist and poet, was born in Uxbridge but got her inspiration from the Herefordshire Welsh Border country. First published in 1932 her writing career was curtailed in 1950 when a previously asymptomatic brain tumour induced an epileptic response whose effects became increasingly serious over the last years of her life. This book of three unpublished works spans that last period, and sheds light on the cruel fate which befell this talented young author and robbed us of ''one of the finest prose writers in English'' of the 20th century.

A reprint of the 1906 classic. Set in a seaside village of West Wales at the time of the 1904 Revival, the novel explores the lives and complex loves of several key characters, set against an enthralling Welsh landscape.

Mari supplements her modest trade as a market stall holder with the wares she acquires from clearing the houses of the dead. She lives alone, apart from a monkey that she keeps in a cage, surrounding herself with the lives of others. But Mari is looking for something beyond saleable goods for her stall. As she works on cutting a perfect emerald, she inches closer to a discovery that will transform her life and throw her relationships with old friends into relief. To move forward she must shed her life of things past and start again. How she does so is both surprising and shocking

Dew On The Grass, first published in 1934, was Eiluned Lewis'' first novel and immediately enjoyed both popular success and critical acclaim. A semi-autobiographical account of childhood in rural Montgomeryshire in the early years of the twentieth century, Lewis'' novel focuses on Lucy, nine years old, dreamy, accident-prone and acutely alive to the world around her. Lewis'' prose is a delight: sensuous, evocative and nostalgic. Here is a book which distils all the joys and agonies of childhood and seems to speak directly to us all of our own lost selves.

Hilarious, shocking and sad, Crystal Jeans'' latest novel is set in Cardiff. Each chapter is narrated by different characters linked by the street on which most of them live and the appearance in them all (to greater or lesser extent) of the title character the alcoholic vagrant who for one of the neighbours is an unusual subject of desire. Set in various homes, streets and parks, and a nearby care home for the demented elderly the story lines are darkly humorous and occasionally rude and crude, this is an unputdownable journey into the underside of contemporary Wales.