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Description Evidence submitted by Plaid Cymru to the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales, explaining why change is needed,...

Description Johanna Francis watched the Nazis take Amsterdam, her wealthy family active in the resistance, sheltering a Jewish family and running a...

Description Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are in turn chilling, playful, and melancholy. The bonds of family and of commun...

Description Insightful, first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing to Wales to escape Nazism in the 1930s and 40s. A popular topic, this book appeals ...

Description After a plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia is foiled by government agents, Inspector Thomas Chard is ordered to apprehend the would...

Description A selection of recipes celebrating one of Wales' best loved dishes - the Welsh Cake. These little cakes are peculiar to Wales; the Iris...

Description For almost 160 years south Wales, better known for coal and steel, was a prolific centre of pottery and porcelain production. Items ran...

Description A contemporary gazetteer to Welsh football for the 2023-2024 season, with a bilingual introduction. Details ISBN: 9781739608316 Publi...

Description In Footnotes to Water, poet Zoë Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and the Bièvre in Paris, and tracks the lite...

Description Mathematics is an integral component of Welsh culture. In this book, the history of twelve mathematicians born in Wales or who worked i...

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 Many authors have recounted the extraordinary achievements and the turmoil of Frank Lloyd Wright's life, but this is the first study to...

Description At the opening of Llanfyllin’s first secondary school in 1900, the local rector defended education against those who opposed its spread...

Description Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's TV series about their shock buyout of Wrexham AFC has propelled the team to unimaginable new popular...

Description Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group and the New Y...

Description This landmark biography, enriched with unrivalled access to private papers and international archives, tells the remarkable story of on...

Description A Welsh version of Jane Davidson's pioneering book, Futuregen, which outlines how Wales became the first country to pass a law that pro...

Description Personal and revealing writings about their first love from these 12 authors: Manon Steffan Ros, Lyn Ebenezer, Sonia Edwards, Ifana Sav...

Description A volume that traces the effect that reporting in difficult circumstances has had on some of Wales's most noteable journalists. We hear...

Description A collection of poems, hymns, songs and quotes which aims to lift our spirits. The content has been chosen by well known musician, pres...

Description A collection of Christian essays on day-to-day topics. Details

Description A volume that deals with the sensitive subject of grief, comprising the experiences of people who have lost loved ones, be they brother...

Description The hitherto untold story of a civilian tented hospital, raised by public subscription in Wales. It travelled to South Africa in 1900 a...

Description Reissue of the celebrated Welsh writer's seminal short novel, repackaged with a stunning new cover. Introduction by acclaimed Welsh aca...

Description An anthology of poems, some original Welsh compositions, and others translated from other languages. They are all linked to those momen...

Description This book examines masculinity and femininity in Wales across modern Welsh history. Contributors question what it meant to be a man and...

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

Description Rhiannon lives in Wales 58–60 AD when the Romans, led by Suetonius Paulinus, arrive on the isle of Anglesey from the North of England. ...

Description A powerful, gripping novel to pull at the heartstrings. It is dangerous to keep old secrets. Will Now and Lois pay the price for the ac...

Description At the BAFTA ceremony, Menna Beynon, Head of the Welsh Language Body is threatened with blackmail by an ex-lover from her college days ...

Description God's Little Artist is a biography in verse of Welsh painter Gwen John (1876–1939). Illustrated with precision, authenticity and a keen...

Description Analytical history of the Church in Wales' contribution to Welsh literature, history and culture. Details

Description Nuclear technology is an amazing feat of human ingenuity, yet with its incredibly destructive power and the highly radioactive waste th...