An all-new literary advent calendar with twenty-five days of bookish surprises for the coziest reading month of the year!

Presents the second volume in the "Library of Wales" series. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As they struggle with their memories of social and personal change, a moving portrait of the love between a father and son emerges.

After almost drowning while playing cricket on the Goodwin Sands, Rod Edmond sets out to walk the East Kent coastline from Thanet to Folkestone, to explore its geography, its history of invasion and defence, and investigate how its fabled White Cliffs mark a border that has sometimes offered refuge and at other times refused entry.

In Bothy Tales, the follow-up to The Last Hillwalker from bestselling mountain writer John D. Burns, travel with the author to remote glens deep in the Scottish Highlands. Burns brings a new volume of tales - some dramatic, some moving, some hilarious - from the isolated mountain shelters called bothies.

A dazzling new standalone novel set in the Roman world about the daughter of one of Britain's most powerful heroines, from the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy.

Nora and Aron are on the bus heading for Boundary Road, but this is a journey full of the unexpected. They don't know each other, not yet, but life has a way of throwing things at you. A powerful story of love, dreams and hope. A blend of comedy and tragedy. Every relationship seems to have more hooks and strings than appears on the surface.