Enter the clandestine world of Welsh noir with these missives from the dark side of Malcolm Pryce's Aberystwyth... 


Many of us can name a figure from our schooldays who had a powerful shaping influence on our moral development. For Louie Knight it was his former games teacher Herod Jenkins. If it hadn’t been for the day when the teacher sent Marty to his death on a cross-country run it is likely that Louie would never have become a champion of the weak.  Find out more in Friar Balthazar's account of a tragedy that shook a community...

The lost kingdom of Cantref-y-Gwaelod is said to have existed to the west of Wales at some indeterminate point during the past. Legend holds that it sunk beneath the waves when some idiot went to a party and left the sluice gates open. Read on for Captain Nemo's entreaty to visit this exotic and elusive retreat from the daily grind...