Books for adults (2)

Description ♥ English Book of the Month: February 2021 1904: 21 year-old Ellen has been summoned back from her new life in New Jersey, to the famil...

Description It's 1903 and widespread calls for social and gender reform flounder against entrenched misogyny. Navigating this world are best friend...

Description A volume celebrating sixty years since the establishment of the Books Council of Wales, comprising sixteen chapters by various scholars...

Description In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who lived the decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claim your identity, and ...

Description ♥ English Book of the Month: November 2021 Michael O’Brien was a victim of a miscarriage of justice over a murder in Cardiff. He was dr...

Description Featuring over 50 of the finest boxers from North, Mid and West Wales, including the first British boxer ever to win a medal at the wor...

Description A volume celebrating sixty years since the Books Council of Wales was established, comprising 16 chapters by various scholars and contr...

Description Every scribbler has old writings collected over the years. This volume comprises a collection of those writings: lectures, articles and...

Description A newly curated volume of academic essays on Raymond Williams’ work. To be published in Williams’ centenary year, as part of the Parthi...

Description Biography of Jan Morris comprising photographs and stories, together with ten tributes by writers and friends. Details ISBN: 9781845277...

Description A time traveller arrives in Wales in the year 2033 to find a peaceful and thriving country. He plans to make a life in this new version...

Description When Ida loses both job and parents in just a few weeks she sets off to Wales to the house her father has left her. But Heather, whose ...

Description Poems exploring the author's grandmother's Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. We encounter tales of wil...

Description Join Peter as he ascends Orangutan Overhang, Supermassive Black Hole and Mental Lentils in the disused Dinorwig slate quarries of Snowd...

Description Today has been a long time coming. Irene sits at her mother's side waiting for the moment at which she will know she is doing the right...

Description When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked...

Description Road Trip is a striking first collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell and an accomplished craft in usin...

Description Questions of humanity, of point of view, are at the heart of Fiona Sampson’s new collection, Come Down.Throughout, Sampson’s poems shim...

Description Deeply funny and deeply sad, this memoir is a frank look into a child’s tumultuous mind, a classic story of a working-class girl growin...

Description This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine confor...

Description A fascinating work of social history which places the life and career of John Squire, a very influential figure in the musical life of ...

Description This timely study demonstrates how, for a century and a half, important Welsh writers and intellectuals have dreamt of belonging to mai...

Description A new and fully-updated centenary edition of Raymond Williams’s seminal collection of essays on nationhood and cultural identity, Who S...

Description A study of the thirty-five libraries built by Andrew Carnegie in Wales as an illustration of his world-wide commitment to the public li...