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Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Honey's Farm by Iris Gower 4. Arian by Iris Gower 4. Sweet Rosie by Iris Gower 4. Sea Mistress by Iris Gower 4. The Wild Seed by Iris Gower 4. Bombers' Moon by Iris Gower 4. Paradise Park by Iris Gower 4. Proud Mary by Iris Gower 4. Copper Kingdom by Iris Gower 4. But with the end of the war in sight, Meryl knows that the man she loves must make a choice: between her and her sister It all seemed too good to be true The moment artist Riana Evans sees the dilapidated mansion in Wales, she determines to buy it, despite its unhappy past - twenty years ago, five maids died there in mysterious circumstances.

The house's 'ghosts' prove good for business - inspiring her paintings and providing atmosphere at a series of ghost-spotting weekends. Her romantic life begins to look up too in the form of handsome airman Tom Maybury.

But the mystery of the girls' deaths hangs over everything. Riana soon discovers that the house holds a secret, and there's someone - or something - who'll do anything to make sure she never discovers it.

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 as if she was born for a life in the theatre. Unlike Kathleen, who wants her name in lights, it's backstage that Ella's heart lies, running the show under the watchful eye of Anthony.

It's not long before she realises that she has fallen in love, and Ella begins to dream about a future that's far from everything she has ever known But a tragic accident threatens to ruin everything she has worked for, and it seems clear that Ella will have no choice but to accept the man that her father chose for her - even if it breaks her heart.

Will Ella be forced to put her family before her own happiness - in the ultimate act of love? Iris Gower, Wales' favourite bestselling storyteller, begins a powerful and warm-hearted series set around Swansea's beautiful theatre. 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.

Born and bred in the poverty-striken streets that sprawled round the smelting works, Catrin dreams of escaping from the smoke and grime and hardship that engulf her life. But Catrin's future will be with the man she marries - and she inspires the love of two men - Dylan Morgan from her own background - and John Richards, a well-bred gentleman.

Gwenllyn Lyons has been raised by her grandmother, in an elegant cottage set in the hills above the Wye Valley. One afternoon, as she and her grandmother return from town, they come across a man lying injured and unconscious by the river bank. They take him home and nurse him until he recovers but nothing seems to help him regain his lost memories - he has no idea who he is, or where he has come from. Over the long hot summer they spend together, Gwenllyn realises that she can't imagine what it would be like without this handsome young man in her life.

As her love for the mysterious stranger grows, she cannot help rejoicing when she realises he feels the same way about her. Gwenllyn's only fear is that some day his past may come to haunt them - a different life, where another woman might be waiting for him.

Will she ever have the happiness of being a bride, or will she always be the other woman? Let bestselling author Iris Gower sweep you away with this captivating and mesmerising saga. Content to adore him from afar, when he comes to her seventeenth birthday party she realizes that he is the only man she will ever love. But Watt, unaware of her feelings, is becoming increasingly drawn into the problems facing pottery owner Llinos Mainwaring, whose romantic marriage to Joe, the American Indian who stole her heart all those years ago, now seems in trouble.

Before long, Rosie discovers that she is changed for ever from the innocent girl she once was, as she becomes involved with a man whose love she is destined never to have. Sweet Rosie is the third novel in Iris Gower's Firebird series. The saga continues in Daughters of Rebecca. Have you read Firebird and Dream Catcher, where the story began?

If you like Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale, you will love this emotional and captivating saga, set amongst the romantic clay potteries of South Wales, from the pen of bestselling author Iris Gower. I loved every page of this book. I read it in three days. When Bull Beynon, her one-time lover, marries someone else, Rhiannon, is left alone in the world. Proud and spirited, she gains a respectable post as housekeeper to an elderly man, but when he dies, his waspish sister throws her out onto the streets where she faces destitution.

Determined to become respectable once and for all, Rhiannon obtains a job as maid to unhappy Janey Buchan, who takes a liking to her. But her luck doesn't last long and she soon finds herself along on the streets again. In desperation, knowing that little stands between her and a return to her old life, she finds herself at the Paradise Park Hotel.

Once scarcely more than a bawdy house, it has now changed hands and Rhiannon starts working there, helping gradually to transform it from a place of ill-repute into one of the finest hotels in Swansea. The only thing lacking in her life is love, and with Bull Beynon married to sweet, gentle Katie, she fears that she may have to live out her life alone. 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 for Joe is always seen by the Swansea elite as a foreigner and an outsider.

When Llinos's father dies after a long illness, she is devastated, but her grief turns to fear when Joe is accused of his father-in-law's murder by the local doctor and is imprisoned along with thieves and debtors.

She had nothing left to lose. Or so she thought Charlotte knew nothing of her parents except that they'd died when she was a child. And when her aunt's will leaves no provision for her, Charlotte must leave the only home she's known for the uncertai 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 of an unlikely alliance between a native American squaw and a wealthy Arian was both spirited and unconventional, often shocking the residents of World's End with her wild behavior.

After making a name for herself in the leather and shoe-making trade, it began to look as though all her money would be lost. In desperat Bridie Marchant was left a fleet of ships by her father. When she married Paul, it seemed a perfect match—but then things started going wrong.

In the events that followed, Bridie and her friend Ellie were nearly destroyed before they finally found 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 older than herself and one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives of When Hari Morgan's father died, he left her nothing but an ailing mother and the tools of his shoemaking business.

But what he also passed on to his daughter was a rare and unusual gift—that of designing and making shoes that were stylish and diffe On one side are the mine-owners, men like Sterling Richardson, his weak corrupt brother Rickie, and Luke Proud, a newcomer to the saga. On the other are the Murphy brothers, miners and rabble-rousers, the Llewellyns and Jim O'Connor, the charismatic The young and lovely Nerys Beynon is alone in the world when Siona Llewelyn, the ferry boat man and patriarch of a large but closely-knit clan, takes her in.

Siona's long- suffering wife, Emily, the mother of seven sons and now with child, has worked 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. Born and bred in the poverty-striken streets that sprawled round the smelting works, Catrin dreams of escaping fro Set in South Wales at the turn of the century, Catherine Preece - young, courageous, lonely, and desperate for love - is trying to run a South Wales hill-farm single-handed, and to support the husband she never loved, now crippled and embittered afte Rhian Gray left Sweyn's Eye to work in Yorkshire, where she became the mistress of Mansel Jack, an ambitious mill-owner.

When she returns to her home town, she finds it torn apart by the Great War. Rhain must decide whether her future lies with Manse Mary Jenkins has every reason to be proud: from humble beginnings she has risen to become overseer in the Canal Street laundry.