STORIES OF THE LLŶN
Every tale we tell is set on real sand, real headlands, real harbour walls. Before you ever set foot on the peninsula — or long after you’ve left it — these are the stories that keep you coming back to it.
A guidebook tells you where. A story tells you why it matters.
Highlight the Llŷn
Porth Neigwl, Bardsey, Nant Gwrtheyrn, Pwllheli harbour — every place in these books is a real place you can actually visit. Fiction is our way of putting the peninsula’s history, light and landscape in front of readers who might never otherwise hear of it.
Give you a reason to explore
Read the chapter, then walk the headland it’s set on. These stories are written to send you outside afterwards — to the harbour wall, the cliff path, the cave — not to replace the visit, but to deepen it.
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Two very different ways into the Llŷn
The Saltwater Lie
A vicar’s clothes are found folded on a rock above the tideline at Porth Neigwl — shoes set neatly beside them, wedding ring on top. Eleanor Ross grieves him for eighteen months, before she finds the tide charts in his desk. A full-length novel of grief, truth and reckoning, moving between 1960s Cheshire and present-day Llŷn.
Read Chapter One free →
The Llŷn Mysteries
Wrecks, wartime secrets, smuggling money and a five-year-old case Trevor’s spent half a decade avoiding. Four connected novellas plus two standalone case-file anthologies from the Cold Case Review Unit he goes on to lead — start with Book One, or get the whole story in one bundle.
Meet the detective →
More tales are on the way
The Llŷn has more stories left in it than we’ve written yet. Read what’s here, tell us what you think, and check back — this page grows as the peninsula gives up more of its history.