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Integrating aims to highlight the marginalised voices of refugee women as well as celebrate the lives of immigrant and migrant women in Wales. The experiences and stories of these women show the several hurdles that many have had to overcome, and are still overcoming in some cases, including racism, in order to forge a new life in a new home. The publication of this anthology will partly contribute to the events that mark that UN International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-24), while also recognising the struggles and experiences of women from various countries in Asia.

For all her life, idealistic 20-year-old bookworm Magdalena Arber has been split down the middle: veering wildly between fidelity to indoctrinated Nazi beliefs, and her father''s humanist values. Then comes the summons - the Nazi War Labour Service is conscripting her into a teaching position in East Prussia. Magda is elated. It''s a release from the cosy cage of childhood, and a chance to form young minds. She enters a lush rural world of forests, lakes, and meadows where order prevails. Yet there are monstrous hands out to shape the whole continuum of earthly creatures. The Gestapo are a lurking darkness. There is bombing further East, and news of a moving Russian front. Will Alt Schonbek burn as well? Can Magda survive?

Marked by the sometimes scandalous life experiences of its author, Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel (1794) is an insightful, often humorous look at Wales, and Britain, at a time of changing social norms and attitudes. Raised in relative seclusion in Wales, where she is preyed on by a corrupt English lord, Ellen marries Lord Castle Howel, a wealthy, older man, in order to save her grandparents'' ancient estate. Transplanted to London, accompanied by her indefatigable Welsh maid, Winifred, Ellen''s innocence about the workings of fashionable society brings about a separation from her husband and the loss of her reputation. Following a dash to the north of England, where she gives birth to her son, she is reunited with her husband and her good name is restored. When Lord Castle Howel is killed in a riding accident, Ellen returns to Wales and sees her and her family''s fortunes transformed.

In the sleepy riverside town of Saltash, the disappearance of young Alice sends shockwaves through the town. As trainee solicitor Khadija returns from London, she begins to unravel mysteries where hidden secrets and dark histories come to light. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Cornwall, Fall River weaves a tale of festering anger and complex relationships. Blending small-town literary fiction with supernatural and crime elements, this evocative novel immerses readers in a world of intrigue, delving into the aftermath of tragedy within a close-knit community, and unveiling unsettling truths simmering just beneath the surface. Fall River is a captivating blend of literary, mystery, history, all set against the backdrop of the strange allure of the Hamaoze and a community grappling with change and discontent.

One family''s story set against the backdrop of some of the biggest political and humanitarian events of the century. A tale of unravelling family secrets, belonging, betrayal and inherited trauma. A book that transports you in time and place through one family''s history and struggle with its colonial roots. Marianne: a mother with a colourful past, keeping a terrible secret, tries her best to conform to French middle class expectations. Charlotte: young and fiercely independent, desperately needs to escape dreadful trauma and a country she does not feels she belongs to. She leaves France and arrives in Wales, hoping to find peace and somewhere to rebuild her life. This book explores the challenges of identity, belonging and womanhood, and the stories we tell in order to fit in.

Cambrian Tales appeared in serialized form in Ainsworth''s Magazine from March 1849 to March 1850 and has not previously been published as a novel. Like the political pamphlet Artegall, also included in this volume, it constitutes part of Jane Williams'' attempts to defend Wales against the notorious ''Blue Books'', the 1847 government report which damned the Welsh as ignorant, immoral and barbaric. A comedy of manners, set in and around a Welsh country house, it features characters clearly modelled on Ysgafell''s patron, Lady Llanover, and her social circle. Also included are two representative poems, one from Celtic Fables (1862), a feminist reworking of ancient legend, and the previously unpublished ''A Petition'' in which a night-cap maker protests against her dire exploitation. Ysgafell''s social conscience, her patriotism and her sardonic humour are evident throughout the volume.

Two years into Darragh O''Grady''s new life as a crop duster in 1930s America, everything is changed when he spots an abandoned farm from the cockpit of his plane. Despite its reportedly tragic history he buys the house and land - and the dark lake at its heart - marries indomitable but damaged Beattie Darling, and sets about making a home. But will the O''Gradys'' love for one another prove powerful enough to overcome the hardships of a life punctuated by loss, and can they escape the lake''s mysterious legacies?

The happy ending is only the beginning... Kat has found her dream life, head chef at the Cafe Lompar and engaged to Milo. Her mother Grace loves part-owning the business, moving between Montenegro and Bath. But things soon gets rocky: wedding preparations bring out a traditional side to Milo that Kat''s never seen before, Neil wants more from Grace than a long-distance relationship, and a new British couple open a restaurant next door to the Cafe Lompar, seemingly determined to steal all Kat''s customers - and staff. Afraid of losing everything, spread too thin, both women do things they regret and have to decide what they really want. Will there be a wedding at all? Will the cafe survive?

Written as a series of nature journals, Margiad Evans'' Autobiography (1943), is an extraordinary experiment in what she called ''earth writing''. It explores in delicate and precise detail the writer''s intensely-felt, even mystical relationship with the natural world. From 1941, she lived in a farmworker''s cottage, Potacre, on the summit of a hill above Llangarron and in sight of the Welsh mountains. A meditation on the difficulty of translating the reality of the ''now'' into words, Autobiography traces a spiritual journey towards understanding the profound connection between all living things.

A feminist reimagining of the story of Fantine from Les Miserables, from Costa award shortlisted author. Montreuil-sur-Mer, 1815. Life is hard for Fannie working at the factory, with only sweet memories of her ''gentleman'' and daughter to sustain her. But when she is revealed as an unmarried mother and fired, she is forced to take greater and greater risks to get money for her child. What can she sell? Who can she trust? Has she any escape? A story of desperation, but also of love and the soaring power of hope.

Twenty short stories by women writers, reflecting their realities, dreams and personal images of Wales - from the industrial communities of the south to the hinterlands of the rural west and the border country of east Wales. This rich and diverse collection provides an opportunity for the modern reader to discover a lost tradition of English-language storytelling by women from Wales, for most of the stories it includes have never been republished since their first appearance in print. As well as being entertaining - and often moving - in themselves, the stories demonstrate how late nineteenth and early twentieth century women contributed to the development of Welsh culture and identity, although their contribution has since been forgotten. This volume also includes a general introduction, and biographical and textual notes on each author and text, by the editor, Jane Aaron, a renowned expert on Welsh women''s writing.

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 simple case - a young mother has disappeared, but so has her son and her next door neighbour''s wife. And the husband of the landlady of the B&B where the girl was staying. When an exserviceman farmhand with PTSD attempts to take his own life the case gets more complex still.

A gripping Gothic tale of possession, madness and murder, Hilda Vaughan''s Harvest Home (1936), is set in Abercoran on the south-west coast of Wales in the time of George III. Daniel Hafod rides home from England one fine morning to become Master of Great House after the death of his uncle. But his obsessive pride and his dark desire for the pretty dairy-maid Eiluned lead to his downfall, as he and his sailor cousin, Dan, compete for her love. A lyrical evocation of Welsh rural life, Harvest Home is also a tautly-written psychological study of a man driven mad by desire which draws on the history of wreckers then active on the Welsh sea-coast, the legend of Blodeuwedd from the Mabinogi, and superstitions associated with Nos Calangaeaf (All Hallows Eve) when spirit voices call out the names of those soon to die.

1997: Elizabeth''s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Her mother decides to claim compensation from the Hungarian Government - hard enough for someone with a clear mind, but near impossible for an impulsive heavy drinker teetering towards dementia. TV journalist Elizabeth is pursuing a story of child abduction in the Hassidic community. In the wake of her father''s sudden death and her mother''s increasing obsession with wartime Hungary she struggles to keep her job and her relationship. Then she gets a phone call to say that her mother has been arrested in Budapest.