Books for adults (2)

Description Marked by the sometimes scandalous life experiences of its author, Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel (1794) is an insightful, often humor...

Description The sequel to the prizewinning novel Salt. Historical fiction based on the true-life experiences and struggles of Kean's own Jamaican g...

Description A riveting, epic, historical novel set in 1940's Germany. A story told from the perspective of the Hitler Youth - a viewpoint of the Se...

Description Autobiography of the late Ron Jones (1934–2021), one of the all-time greats of Welsh athletics. He had an incredible sporting career, f...

Description An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been W...

Description The British Wildlife Photography Awards is a celebration of British natural history. This stunning collection of images documents natur...

Description North Wales is home to hundreds of artisan food and drink heroes whose award-winning produce is helping to make it one of the most exci...

Description An attractive volume featuring almost three hundred illustrations including photos and maps from the Royal Institution of South Wales. ...

Description The life and career of forgotten Welsh veterinary surgeon, medic and adventurer  Griffith Evans, who discovered that blood parasites ca...

Description Biography of Joseph Jenkins (1818–98). Tregaron tenant farmer Jenkins was innovative and successful with an award for the best farm in ...

Description Explores the theological beliefs and teachings of Griffith Jones, his support for the Welsh language, and his persuasion of English sup...

Description The product of years of diligent research, this ambitious title brings the incredibly varied lives (and deaths!) of 1000 Tudor people i...

Description An overview of Welsh and British history from 1450–1720 providing a new assessment of Welsh gentility. The first full-length published ...

Description Expert analysis of the history of St Davids Cathedral. This special issue of the Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture f...

Description Contains the only full published English translation of the medieval Welsh bardic grammars and offers insight into the development of W...

Desription Life for this self-described 'former musician' has been rather disappointing. Achieving overnight success as a young man with his début ...

Description Arthur Gwynn Jones is a talented craftsman who spent half his life in Flintshire. Through a series of entertaining reminiscences, we ga...

Description Take my hand and let us dance together through Wales, and discover some fascinating and remarkable tales about Welsh Folk Dancing. Danc...

Description For the first time, here is an edition of new discoveries relating to Welsh medieval saints in early modern manuscripts. It will have a...

Description A timely look at the state of the National Health Service in the UK, from its creation in 1948 to today. General practice in the United...

Description A new look at the relationship between art and literature in Wales during the Victorian Age, revealing the original and astute vision o...

Description A collection of short stories by 10 authors who identify as women living in Wales in the twenty first century, as they discuss their ex...

Description A series of biographical essays that move swiftly through memory but also give rein to imagination to weave colour. The essays comprise...

Description Everybody had written it off as waste ground. But when a planning application is made to build houses on this wild and green patch of G...

Description Essays that blend nature writing with memoir. On a wild and windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure to be found: je...

Description Fall River is a captivating blend of literary, mystery and history, all set against the backdrop of the strange allure of the Hamaoze a...

Description In 1984, Girlo Wolf is born into a world of pickets and poverty. Life on The Rock is precious, but growing-up is far from easy. Struggl...

Description Feral Monster follows Jax and her noisy, opinionated brain as they navigate love, identity, class and family. Mashing up grime, R&B...

Description Growing up in a lonely house on the edge of a wild common, Violet Hart is a quiet and sheltered only child who has always dreamt of bec...

Description When Taban wishes for the world to end something out there . . . hears him. Soon the young boy is being stalked by a fox whose salivati...

Description In his first collection of poems, Martin Huws is led by his strong social conscience from the Rhondda to Roath, from Paris to Palestine...

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Description A murder mystery set in the period after the Second World War. Dela Arthur is the headmistress of the small primary school at Nant yr E...

Description Landmark collection of first-hand testimonies of the women in contemporary Welsh government who were the first in the world to achieve ...

Description An accessible introduction to the history of Wales’s literature. I awoke from a deep sleep I had taken under the shade of a tree in a f...