Honno ltd gb (286 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: New. The third in the popular series which started with the award-winning Who's Afraid of the Bwgan-Wood?, this novel for young adults skilfully interweaves real and fantasy worlds to draw the reader into a battle to save the local woods from destruction - a feat only possible by juggling with time zones! D…

Paperback. Condición: New. All day long, people hurry to and fro across the waste ground on the fringes of the Bwgan-Wood. Nobody see the eyes peeping out at them from the tangle of the trees. Nobody notices the way the leaves shake when there isn't any wind. Winner of the Welsh academy Prize for children's fiction. Ages 7-11 ye…

Paperback. Condición: New. Will and his brother Ned are commandeered into the army of ditch-diggers whose task it is to build the foundations for Edward I's castle at Flint. But the lads are nervous - and not just because they're far from home. Ned is a mute whose affinity with horses and skills as a herbalist make him suspiciou…

Paperback. Condición: New. The fourth book in the crime series featuring forensic psychologist Megan Rhys. In this volume, she is investingating the unusually high suicide rate among prisoners at the grim Victorian Balsall gate jail in Birmingham. While she is there, yet another death occurs. To the police, it is just another dr…

Paperback. Condición: New. 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' best wome…

Paperback. Condición: New. Megan Rhys is due at a police conference on sex offenders - not a particularly nice subject, but at least it'll get her out of the office, where she can spend a few days at her grandmother's cottage in Borth. It turns out not to be quite the kind of break she was anticipating when a body turns up, mira…

Paperback. Condición: New. Investigative psychologist, Megan Rhys, is called in to help the police with the murder of a young mother who has been brutally killed and a pentagram carved in her forehead. While the media-obsessed police chief wants to call it a satanic ritual, Megan keeps an open mind and starts investigating the d…

Paperback. Condición: New. Mair is looking for her lost grandfather - or at least a trace of his passing. Her journey takes her from a horribly dull veterinary surgery in Cardiff to the heat and passion of Torre del Burros in Spain, an Asturian town popular with pilgrims. There she uncovers not just her family's secrets, but tho…

Paperback. Condición: New. Fourteen stories revealing the issues faced by men and women, grappling, literally or metaphorically with 'getting a life'. Some are poignant, some pitiless, some hilarious, and some are distinctly risky and original. From a woman's exploration of the orgasmic potential of her breasts to a panic-strick…

Paperback. Condición: New. Middle-aged Jack dances away from home - with a Morris dancing outift! When one of his summer weekend gigs is unexpectedly cancelled, he books himself into the Welcome Stranger in Llangwm, for a weekend that - along with the accommodating young woman behind the desk - changes his life. Meanwhile his wi…

Paperback. Condición: New. Everything in the Garden is a poignant yet entertaining account of the dilemmas facing women in late-middle age. it is about a group of 50-something couples who sell up their city homes to buy a rambling farmhouse in mid-Wales. They propose to live not communally, but in close harmony, growing old with…

Paperback. Condición: New. Jude is a ReTracer who travels back in time in order to stop disastrous events from happening. It makes her distrusted by most people, alienated from her mother and her lover, and now it has made her a threat to someone. such a threat that someone is willing to throw her off a building. Can Jude find o…

Paperback. Condición: New. Rosie is special - her dad is a Romany horse whisperer - but not everyone thinks so. Phillip does, but then he's special too: a Cambridge undergraduate who's refused a commission to throw in his lot with the men who've volunteered for a suicide mission designed to stop the Nazi invasion. For two idylli…

Paperback. Condición: New. From birth to death, horror to hilarity, this is a collection of stories for gardeners at home and away. Welsh women write about what gardens mean to them, what happens in them and where they take them. An Italian POW returns home to a mixed welcome from his family; a tale of loss set around a memorial…

Paperback. Condición: New. This latest collection of short stories from Honno showcases a wide range of imaginative takes on what constitutes crime fiction. From bodies buried under the patio to old ladies with enviable inheritances, from a Chandleresque pastiche to police procedurals and fathers with an undue interest in their…

Paperback. Condición: New. A vivid recreation of 1930s working class life in South Wales, this powerful story centres around a moving father-daughter relationship. Viddie grows up observing her father's increasingly wild plans to bring the poverty of the 'Valleys' to the attention of London and the royal family - from his first…

Paperback. Condición: New. Published in conjunction with Chawton House, Dancing With Mr Darcy is an anthology of the winning entries to the Jane Austen Short Story Award 2009, which celebrates the bicentenary of Jane Austen's arrival in Chawton House - a place where she spent the most productive years of her literary life. The i…

Paperback. Condición: New. 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 simpl…

Paperback. Condición: New. An autobiographical collection of women writing about living abroad. This book is a celebration of the mix of cultural experience of modern Welsh women. These writings are not of holidays but of significant experiences of life abroad as workers, wives, children or travellers. They are mostly contempora…

Paperback. Condición: New. This is a unique collection of autobiographical writings about sexual experience, penned by women from Wales. The 26 authors of all ages write about a fascinating range of experiences. Some accounts are blissful, some horrific, some farcical, some simply matter-of-fact. As well as a statement about the…

Paperback. Condición: New. 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 simpl…

Paperback. Condición: New. A unique collection of autobiographical writings about motherhood, penned by women from Wales. Funny, shocking and tender, it covers the whole spectrum of what it means to be a mother - from getting pregnant to the empty-nest syndrome. A young woman gets pregnant whilst technically still a virgin; a wo…

Paperback. Condición: New. An anthology of fictional short stories exploring the intensely personal relationship women have with their clothes. One women wonders what to wear to meet the mother who gave her up at birth, while another straps on her armour to enter the professional world of politics. Be they dramatic monologues, t…

Paperback. Condición: New. The third in a volume of short stories that take minor characters from famous novels as their starting point. 'The Wedding Planner' takes the characters from Austen's novella Lady Susan and transports them to the 21st century. Other stories focus on the less well known of the Bennet sisters, Kitty and…

Paperback. Condición: New. Crystal's mother is a woman to be wary of; a diet of deep fried snacks has hardened her heart and her arteries. One misstep and Crystal is ordered to pack her bags; she's off to live with Freddy Krueger on the other side of the park. Near death avoided, back home with her mother, Crystal dotes on her p…

Paperback. Condición: New. Jay has been roaming rootless for years until one morning he arrives in a small Yorkshire Dales town and sees a face in the crowd which takes him back to the best and worst times of his life. In the aftermath of a failed affair, Marilyn is rebuilding her life and her barn when a lightning storm threate…