So I have finally established a youtube channel. Search using my name Geoff Brookes and you should be able to find it. I am starting to collect together the different phot slide shows I have created to illustrate my books. I hope you enjoy them! Some have been remade recently too, like the new one…
Category: News
Our Lady of Mumbles – Out soon!
The sequel to In Knives We Trust – available soon I am delighted to announce that the second book in my series of novels about Inspector Rumsey Bucke will be published shortly. I will post more details once I have a clear publication date from Cambria Publishing who have agreed to take it on. Should…
Lake Vyrnwy
This month Welsh Country Magazine has returned in printed form and you can buy it in supermarkets and newsagents across Wales, as well as on-line for just £2.95!My piece in the September edition examines the memorial at Lake Vrynwy in Powys which remembers the 44 men who died during the construction of this beautiful reservoir…
Welsh Country Magazine – May 2020 edition
Due to the Covid-19 drama, the magazine has been unable to produce a printed version of the magazine this month.However, the whole edition is now available on-line – for free!Click on this link here and you will be taken straight to the page featuring my own piece. In this edition as you can see, I…
Rosser Mort A Swansea Export 1834
Rosser Mort was committed to gaol for trial on 8 February 1834. At this moment his life entered its final phase, though no one could have predicted where and how he would die, cold and frightened and a very long way from home. He had been arrested in Merthyr Tydfil on a charge of burglary…
Lockdown Literature
A pretentious title I know, but I do like a bit of alliteration. As a contribution to these strange times through which we are living I have been putting on my page on Facebook a story a day from my collection of the many oddities I have found from Swansea’s history. Many of them, like…
Swansea in the 1950s – additional stock received
I have received new stock! Swansea in the 1950s is available once again and there are more copies of Swansea in 50 Buildings availableSelect the How to Buy page in the menu at the top of the screen. Post and Packing are free on all titles
Swansea and District Writers Circle
I have been invited to attend the Swansea and District Writers Circle on 4 March 2020. I have been asked to speak about the relationship between the research I do for my local history writing and my fiction. 7.15pm in the Civic Centre on Oystermouth Road.Could be a few gravestones involved then… I am looking…
Stock Levels December 2019
Post updated 08 DECEMBER 2019 I thought I better put up details of the number of books I have in stock ready for sale. These figures were accurate at 5.00 pm on Wednesday 11 December 2019. I will not be able to replenish my stock before Christmas. I have sufficient copies of these three titles:In…
Christmas Sales
There are plenty of opportunities on the website to solve your Christmas present needs! There are a number of books available, all at bargain prices. Black Friday? Cyber Monday? We are always here and my books are regarded as original interesting and lasting gifts.All our prices include free delivery and recycled packaging. If you live…