Happy St David’s day!

Happy St David’s Day!

Today, tonight, it’s official that you should really read a book set in Wales. To celebrate St David’s Day of course so here is a quick round up :

Location: Pembrokeshire

The Starlings & Other Stories

Ann Cleeves

Every picture tells a story and in this book, Wales is brought to life in both pictures and words. Several stories edited by Ann Cleeves and written by some top  Crime writers. This is a really unique book with the stories having been inspired by the photographs of  a top Photographer and it really is something to treasure

Booktrail: The Starlings and other-stories

Location: Bardsey Island

The Bones Beneath

Mark Billingham

A criminal leads police to a remote Welsh island in order to search for bodies…chilling.

Tom Throne arrives on Bardsey Island and its a chilling place to be in the hands of Mark Billingham. The police have returned here with a killer in order to find a body and it’s a dark and claustrophobic world they come to. Just as well the island itself really is quite stunning! Mark was really taken with this setting and did a lot of research into its nature – and it shows.

Booktrail: Bardsey Island

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Location: Bristol, Gower Peninsula (fictional Penfach)

I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh

Wales in this book – the thriller of 2015 – is set around the fictional town of Penfach which is in fact based on the Gower Peninsula where the author knows well. It’s a place Jenna goes to in order to escape bu tyou’re not sure what from until the end. This was the novel with THAT twist in it and if you haven’t read it and fancy a chase to Wales then this is the book for you.

Booktrail:  Gower Peninsula