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Copper Kingdom
Nov 24, 2025 6:10 PM

Author:Iris Gower

Copper Kingdom

Let bestselling author Iris Gower transport you to South Wales at the turn of the century in this beguiling and bewitching saga, set during the hard times of copper smelting. Fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale will not be disappointed.

READERS ARE LOVING COPPER KINGDOM!

'Living in Swansea this book set my mind racing of the past. I couldn't put it down!' -- ***** Reader review

'I found once I started reading it, I could not put it down!' -- ***** Reader review

'Believable and so enjoyable' -- ***** Reader review

'Riveting' -- ***** Reader review

'Wonderful' -- ***** Reader review

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THE FAMILY'S FATE RESTS ON HER SHOULDERS...

Sweyn's Eye, South Wales: The Richardsons are copper barons - lords of the town's copper smelting industry - rich, powerful, and somewhat in denial that their wealth may be in jeopardy as the demand for copper wanes.

The Llewelyns are a poor family, the threat of unemployment and all its attendant miseries always present. They are too poor to afford more than a pauper's funeral when Mrs Llewelyn dies and too proud to allow the neighbours to know.

When the fiery and determined Mali Llewelyn is offered a job in the local laundry she takes it, determined to fight her way to prosperity as a businesswoman. Yet all of her struggles are not obvious, for in secret she battles with her hopeless love for Sterling Richardson, heir to the copper kingdom of Sweyn's Eye.

Can she find a way through? For on her shoulders rest the burden of the family fortunes...

Reviews

Enough to frighten even jaded readers. If anyone can make a haunted violin the object of obsession and nightmare, it's Rice

—— Publishers Weekly

For nearly twenty years now, Anne Rice has been telling stories that share secrets - secrets of life and death, of sex and the soul, of monsters and humans

—— Mikal Gilmore , Rolling Stone

The action is tight and well-plotted, the dialogue is punchy, and the whole thing rolls along so nicely

—— Guardian

A lively thriller of sexual politics and morality. Elton's best book yet

—— Elle

Addictive

—— Metro

Praise for Lisa Jewell

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Terrific

—— Sunday Times

The best romantic comedy we've read in ages

—— Company

Tackles serious issues with humour - proving that chick-lit can be intelligent, interesting and huge fun

—— Sunday Express

A triumph

—— Hello

Top marks. Fantastic

—— Heat

Lovely

—— Daily Telegraph

Moving and intelligent

—— Independent

Magnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners

—— Cosmopolitan

Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction

—— Glamour

Fans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into

—— Sunday Telegraph
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