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Brittle with Relics is a vital history of Wales undergoing some of the country's most seismic and traumatic events: the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh language movement; the Miners' Strike and its aftermath; and the narrow vote in favour of partial devolution.

Plans for a town pantomime are thrown in the air after one of the actors is murdered. The victim is local gossip, nosy parker and aspiring manipulator Ivor Gladwin. Reviled by many and ignored by more, the list of people who could have wanted rid of him seems to grow by the minute. Despite having overstepped the mark in past cases, because of her familiarity with the individuals involved, ex police officer Fabia Havard is actually tasked by her boyfriend, and serving DCI, to look into the matter on the side. 

Charming film writer and director Geraint Denbigh is found lifeless in the garden of his Welsh home. It looks like he fell from a window, but eagle-eyed Detective Chief Inspector Matt Lambert soon finds irregularities in the crime scene. Before long he determines it was murder. Recently retired, the victim was writing about his eventful life and many of his former colleagues and associates could have had reason to stop him before he spilled the beans on their transgressions.

Dyma 8 stori newydd gan rai o awduron gorau Cymru (Lois Arnold, Mared Lewis, Siôn Tomos Owen, Elinor Wyn Reynolds, Bethan Gwanas, Guto Dafydd, Meleri Wyn James a Manon Steffan Ros) i ddysgwyr sy wedi cyrraedd Lefel Sylfaen. Mae rhai straeon yn digwydd yn ystod cyfnod y coronafeirws.

Mae rhyw ysfa anifeilaidd tu mewn i bob un ohonom, a'r ysfa honno'n peri inni fod eisiau dianc rhag rhywbeth o hyd. Ond mae rhai clymau'n rhy dynn i geisio eu datod—perthynas mam â'i merch, dyn â'i famwlad, dynes â'i salwch—ac yn amlach na pheidio, mae'n amhosib torri'n rhydd. Dyma 8 stori sy'n dangos inni werth rhyddid, ac sy'n dangos mai braint, ac nid hawl, yw profi bywyd heb ffiniau.

A novel that moves from 1908 and 2018. The shadow of Vosper's famous painting is woven through the story, and the belief that the devil's face lies in the shawl. Neta has to face her ghosts, and through her actions, the lives of Ceri, Beca and Olwen Agnes are all affected, and prejudice and negative attitudes towards gender and convention are challenged.

Dydy Felix Schopp ddim yn blentyn sy'n broblem. Plentyn efo problem ydy o. Mae cyflwr ADCG (ADHD) Felix yn ei gwneud hi'n anodd iddo ganolbwyntio ac mae ei waith ysgol yn dioddef. Mae pawb yn dweud wrtho bod angen trio'n galetach, ond does neb yn deall pa mor anodd ydy hynny!