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Iris Davies, Welsh romantic author,was born in 1939 in Mumbles, Swansea and still lives and writes in the area - the gateway to Gower - which happens to be the inspiration for her choice of pen name. Iris has an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Cardiff, and an Honorary Fellowship at the University of Wales All her well-researched romantic stories are set within Swansea and Gower and usually include spirited heroines. Her writing has become popular throughout the world as well as, of course, here in Wales. Iris has four grown up children, though sadly her husband of 48 years, Tudor Davies, passed away on April 15th 2002 after suffering a major stroke.
Rhiannon,
proud and spirited, is alone in the world after her one-time sweetheart
found a new love. From being a shanty-town woman amongst the railway
navvies in Swansea, she wants to make a fresh start and a better life,
and finds a position as a housekeeper to a railway engineer. But unforeseen
circumstances force her back on the streets, where she faces destitution.
At the entrance to the notorious Paradise Park Hotel she encounters
Sal, a young street girl whom Rhiannon tries to rescue. Hardcover
- 302 pages (1 July, 2002)
As the line to Swansea is forged, Katie and Nia find they are caught in a network of lies and deceit. Their lives become involved with the women at the local pottery, in the town now dominated by the monster they call the Great Western Railway
Rosie,
18, beautiful and vivacious, is in love with Watt Bevan, the manager
of the Mainwaring Pottery where her mother Pearl works. But Watt is
mourning the loss of a former love, and when Pearl falls ill and Watt
becomes the protector of the family...Read
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 Daughters of Rebecca Shanni Price, spirited and lively, yet poverty-stricken, is given protection by lovely and wealthy Llinos Mainwaring at her famous pottery in Swansea. Yet, when they both meet the dashing Dafydd Buchan, young Shani begins to regard her employer as...Read more  Dream
Catcher When Llino's father dies after a long illness, she is devastated, but her grief turns to fear when her husband Joe is accused of his father-in-law's murder and imprisoned. A friendship he makes with a wise old man there sets in train a series of...Read more  Morgan's
Woman 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 after the Great War. Into this explosive situation. Firebird 
Copper
Kingdom
Arian Fourth in the Cordwainers series. Arian's behaviour often shocked the residents of World's End. As she begins to establish herself in the shoe-making trade, she wins the backing of Calvin Temple. When one of her ventures fails, she sets out for.. Emmeline, lonely after the death of her father, marries Joe Harries, a man much older than herself and one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. Rejected by the close-knit community, she falls in love with Will Davies, and so begins a feud which rips the. Catherine O'Connor has flouted convention to become the mistress of the man she loves, Boyo Hopkins. But Boyo's spurned wife, Bethan, a woman of wealth and power, exacts a revenge that will change Catherine's life forever. The fifth in the "Cordwainers" series. This is an historical drama
about a wealthy young woman, Bridie Marchant, who marries her
great love, only to be heartbroken when she discovers that acquiring
her wealth is his only interest.
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Sweet
Rosie