Books

Description Traditionally, the communities along the western coast of Wales thrived on maritime trade and fishing. The produce of the farmland and ...

Description This study identifies and discusses the various forms of winter wassailing found in Wales, in times past and present. It focuses specif...

Description his second book, Snowdonia Slate 2 - The story with photographs, complements and adds to the descriptions of the first volume. It is wr...

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

Description Excluded from school, Dylan is forced to move to a tiny village in Wales where his grandad lives. With no Xbox or internet, life is loo...

Description Sara John presents us with an eclectic collection of tantalising tales originating from the author's childhood in South Wales during th...

Description A novel set in a rural community in North Wales in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three siblings, all with hidden motivation, s...

Description Much less known than the slate industry in Snowdonia are the metal mines. But these, too, greatly contributed to the economy of the are...

Description Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corne...

Description A colourful, 32 page, A4 activity book. Packed with lively double-page illustrations, the task is to find the baby dragon and other ite...

Description This copiously illustrated book provides a guide to the workhouses set up across Wales and in the border counties of Cheshire, Shropshi...

Description With rare experience in both primary and secondary phases and at leadership as well as classroom levels, Mark Creasy is ideally placed ...

Description Santa is in love. After a busy Christmas Eve he is exhausted. When all his work is done for another year, he joins little Elwyn and his...

Description There are so many amazing stories associated with the ancient pubs of Wales: some of them true, some of them exaggerated and some of th...

Description A study of the imagery of Welsh saints in medieval and 19th/20th-century stained glass, sculpture and painting. Overview and analysis, ...

Description When Francis House enlists in the British Army in 1907, at the age of 15 years and three months, he is not thinking about war. He imagi...

Description Originally published as a single-volume 'Who's Who' in 1991, with the players listed alphabetically, this new three-volume collection l...

Description The Long Field braids the essential hiraeth stories of Wales with Pamela Petro's own life - as an American who loves Wales, as a gay wo...

Description Moving from Penrhyn castle in Snowdonia in the 19th century to the harsh sugar plantations of Jamaica, this is a story of stark beauty ...

Description This volume describes the development of religious thought in Wales between 1760 and 1900. Although the emphasis is on religious though...

Description In this bold, controversial book, Daryl Leeworthy takes a fresh, provocative look at the struggle through radical political action for ...

Description ♥ English Book of the Month: September 2021 A newly curated volume of academic essays on Raymond Williams’ work. To be published in Wil...

Description From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...

Description The stories of women from Wales’ minority communities are seldom heard. This book comprises the life stories of 40 Black Asian Minority...