Books for adults (2)

Description Fascinating volume of history, shedding light on the lead mining industry in Ceredigion and shipping from Aberystwyth, through the stor...

Description A Welsh County at War is not a military history of horror in the trenches, but a social and cultural history of life in one Welsh count...

Description It is unusual to see a book about the tides of a single country. A book about tides in Wales is akin to, for example, one about rainbow...

Description Take an intimate journey with award-winning wildlife photographer Drew Buckley as he observes the trials and joys of the Atlantic Puffi...

Description The Golden Valley is an exploration and a celebration of a small south Wales valley. The site of ancient tombs and settlements, its rur...

Description Eighteen walks in all parts of Wales from the TV series by the renowned Welsh weatherman and co-author Martin Aaron. ♥ English Book of ...

Description The definitive analysis of one of the UK's most beloved nature spots, written by an expert with 50 years' experience in the field and a...

Description Money is one of the most important languages on the planet. In this book, Linda Davies helps people understand and speak it better. Det...

Description This is a skilful collection by a poet well acquainted with relative place: wherever a poem lives, it always remembers its place in the...

Description Susie Wild writes of fruit blown down by the wind and of unexpected and unearned gains and advantages. Here flying trampolines disrupt ...

Description Philip Gross is a poet, librettist and writer for young people. A keen collaborator with other poets and across art forms, he has lived...

Description Christopher Meredith's new poetry collection Still, uses the title word as a fulcrum to balance various paradoxical concerns: stillness...

Description Witty and engaging with a very dry sense of humour, Steve Fenwick's autobiography tells the story of the schoolboy from Nantgarw who be...

Description In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acce...

Description Octogenarian language geek Vernon, who’s never written a book, tries to find a way to write the story of his long marriage to Hannah. U...

Description An uplifting novel of family secrets and fresh starts. Grace is clearing her late husband’s things, when she discovers he had another f...

Description Faced with two murders, industrial espionage, a sexual predator, and a mining disaster, Thomas Chard must puzzle how these things fit t...

Description When Mr Collins is found murdered in Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s garden, simmering tensions are revealed beneath the elegant Regency sur...

Description The second title in the landmark series, the Library of Wales. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Mat...

Description Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence ...

Description When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives a...

Description Jeffrey Weeks was born in the Rhondda in 1945, of mining stock. As he grew up he increasingly felt an outsider in the intensely communi...

Description A bitterly intelligent and gruesomely funny journey through the worlds of work, sex and rugby. Lewis Davies ruthlessly dissects a passi...

Description Covering one Sunday tournament in the depths of Languedoc when his team bids to make the National Finals, Bill Rees produces a deeply f...

Description David Lloyd Owen introduces us to the breadth of travellers' tales from a mysterious and absorbing country in a fascinating compendium....

Description Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon Teifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings and enchantments...

Description When the author is given a small package, containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather’s brother, who was killed in Syria ...

Description Kristian Bang Foss’ darkly comic, prize-winning road-novel satire sees two unlikely friends set out to defy the Danish welfare state – ...

Description Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film for a festival prize. It has taken seven gruelling years of his life to make and...

Description Easy Meat is a glimpse of a young man and a country on the verge of a momentous decision. The South Wales Valleys, 23rd June, 2016. It’...

Description Bridges have always been required to ease the passage of people and goods from the earliest of times. In this book are described steppi...