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Iris Gower
Meryl Jones fears dying in the 1941 Swansea blitz. When her home is bombed Meryl is evacuated to Carmarthen, where she is lodged with Mrs Dixon, and her son George…
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Meryl Jones fears dying in the 1941 Swansea blitz. When her home is bombed, Meryl is evacuated to Carmarthen, where she is lodged with Mrs Dixon, and her son George…
Meryl Jones is evacuated to Carmarthen, where she falls for half-German Michael, but Michael seems to like her sister, Hari, better. As World War II ends, Meryl knows that the…
Two sisters. Only one can follow their heart.Swansea, 1941. When her home is bombed, Meryl Jones is evacuated to Carmarthen. Hating it there, she runs away.
She is found by…
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Set at the turn of the century in the South Wales town of Sweyn’s Eye - the old name for Swansea, where Iris Gower has lived all her life, this…
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Emily was delighted with the dancing slippers Hari made for her debut at the Race Ball, one of the grandest events of the year. It was to be the beginning…
Llinos Savage becomes presumed owner of the Tawe Pottery at the age of 14. As she attempts to keep the business afloat on a shoe-string, her world becomes complicated by…
Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is happy with her steadfast fiance Luke. Then, one day, a terrible mining explosion…
The fourth book in the Cordwainers sequence. When a financial venture failed in France, Arian journeys there in hope of salvaging her investment. Falling foul of the law there, she…
Manon Jenkins has had a cherished childhood, but when her father dies, she is left homeless and alone. The handsome blacksmith, Morgan Lewis, cares deeply for her, but she cannot…
Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed cottage on Honey’s Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft and lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much…
Bridie Marchant had been brought up with every advantage, a wealthy background, a convent education, and a father who eventually willed her a fleet of merchant sailing ships. When she…
This novel is about the cattle drovers of Wales.
Rhiannon, proud and spirited, is alone in the world after Bull Beynon, her one-time lover, marries someone else. She gains a respectable post as housekeeper to an elderly man, but…
The wedding of Llinos Savage, the young saviour of the Savage Pottery, and the fascinating Joe Mainwaring, sets the small sea front town of Swansea ablaze with gossip. Joe, born…
Rosie, sixteen, beautiful and vivacious, is in love with Watt Bevan, the manager of the famous Mainwaring Pottery. But Watt, unaware of her feelings, is becoming increasingly drawn into problems…
Gwenllyn Lyons has been raised by her grandmother, in an elegant cottage set in the hills above the Wye Valley. Gwenllyn’s only fear is that some day his past may…
The Loves of Catrin tells the story of Catrin Owen whose life began in the grim world of a Welsh copper town in the nineteenth century. But Catrin’s future will…
The second novel in Iris Gower’s series about the women of Swansea at the beginning of the century. It follows the fortunes of Rhian Gray, who has left Sweyn’s Eye…
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The fifth novel in Iris Gower’s series about the women of Swansea at the beginning of the century. It follows the fortunes of Rhian Gray, who has left Sweyn’s Eye…
From the ashes of the war, can love blossom?Rhian Grey left her home in Sweyn’s Eye to make a life for herself in Yorkshire, where she learnt the skills of…
The Second World War is over. Artist Riana Evans falls in love with a dilapidated mansion in Wales, despite its rumored ghosts. But it soon becomes clear that there’s someone–or…
When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea, she is surprised by how quickly she takes to the job - it’s…
When fiery redhead, Garnet Kingdom, sets sail for Spain, her heart yearns for adventure. No sooner has the ship left port than it is captured by a pirate crew and…
Riana Evans falls in love with a dilapidated mansion in Wales, despite its rumored ghosts, and she is delighted when its elderly, eccentric owner sells it to her for a…
Leveson Gower Iris
Georgiana’s story is surely one of the most compelling and dramatic in late Georgian society and is the subject of numerous books and the highly successful film ‘The Duchess’. Love…
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