Pontypridd, 1939. Wartime austerity, air-raids, blackouts and tensions strain family and community – for Diana Powell, divided from her beloved Tony Ronconi by a secret, and Wyn Rees, in whom...

Allenstein, East Prussia, 1939 – Charlotte von Daski’s parents hold a glittering ball to mark her eighteenth birthday and to announce her engagement to a Prussian Count. But as they celebrate,...

Alma Moore has been left behind in Pontypridd to face a bleak future. Betrayed by the man she had loved, she is alone and has to face the whisperings of an upright society.

It is no...

In Pontypridd and the Rhondda in 1905 coal is king, and the families who sunk the first collieries are rich. None is wealthier or more generous than Harry Watkin Jones. Sali Watkin Jones is about...

Judy Hamilton was born in the Cardiff docklands. Homeless after the death of her grandmother, she finds friendship, work and lodgings with Edyth Slater in Cardiff’s colourful multi-racial Tiger...

Pontypridd, 1941, and Britain stands alone. The war-torn lives of the community are burdened by rationing, and fed on rumour and speculation...

Ronnie Ronconi’s return from Italy,...

Destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give...

Bethan Powell is 19 and in love. She had been born into the close-knit community, burdened by poverty, and has never known anything else. Until one day at the hospital she meets Andrew John. She...

Harry’s babyhood was blighted by a brutal stepfather. However, when he was five his mother, Sali, finally met and married a decent man – Lloyd Evans, a Rhondda coal miner. Loved and cosseted...