English books for adults

Description A study of the creation of the historic county of Denbighshire in Wales.  The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons fol...

Description This National Railway Museum, Wales Poster Art Calendar for 2024 is a wonderful collection of vintage posters showing off the beauty of...

Description A study of influential British Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan as a political thinker. Despite his contemporary legacy as an inst...

Description A critical contextualizing of the early work of modernist painter Ceri Richards. This study assesses Ceri Richards’s early art and care...

Description Novella set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic Wales a few years into the future. Aeronwy, a very ordinary middle-aged woman, finds herse...

Description A gripping 'cuckoo in the nest' domestic thriller, exploring how coercive control can tear a family apart. Set in Yorkshire and Cardiff...

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

Description ‘A remarkable and important book’ – Murdo Macdonald, Planet Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Re...

Description What the fascinating life of Edward Vaughan reveals about the politics of early modern England and Wales. This book tells the remarkabl...

Description 'Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood - this slim but devastating novel captures an entire village, an entire world, and the m...

Description The Welsh in North Staffordshire is a new local history book that uniquely examines Welsh migration to all parts of North Staffordshire...

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

Description Change intrudes into the remote valleys of the Black Mountains. What will happen to life there, and to grieving farmer's daughter Beth,...

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 This book provides the modern reader with the key to understanding the structure and context of the complex and mysterious narrative Hi...

Description In 1994 two girls are pen-pals. Then Victoria's letters from Rwanda stop; in Paris Iris can only wonder why. Twenty years later, journa...

Description The Gwent Levels line the north shore of the Severn in South Wales: Cas Gwent (Chepstow) at its head; its more famous cousin, the Somer...

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 A lyrical, engaging, coming-of-age murder mystery set in the Great Freeze of 1963. Eleanor O'Dowd, a middle-aged piano teacher, is foun...

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

Description Tinseltown tells the story of this extraordinary, unpredictable and often surreal football takeover and the remarkable events that foll...

Description A journey through the natural landscapes of Wales. In Tir—the Welsh word for “land”—writer and ecologist Carwyn Graves takes us on a to...

ISBN: 9781787479050 Publication Date April 2019Publisher: Quercus Publications, London Format: Paperback, 228 pages Language: English New Paperbac...

Description With its own Senedd and legislative powers, Wales is already on a journey towards independence. This report by the Independence Commiss...

Description  This book compares how two underdog peoples shaped their modern national identities. Welsh Nonconformists, fighting for religious equa...

Description An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283)...

Description The story of two brothers in World War II. Christopher Burney was a secret agent tortured by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration ca...

ISBN: 9781912631179 Publication Date October 2019Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont Format: Paperback, 215x140 mm, 240 pages Language: English In two y...

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 This fully illustrated volume contains a selection from the many thousands of works spanning more than seven hundred years, with short ...

Description A fresh start. The smog of the city in the rear view, and in front the green, green grass of Wales. That's the idea anyway. But by the ...

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 Definitive account of the cultural and political impact on Wales of the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley. The failure of the nation to b...

Description The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, trav...

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

Description The work of some of the most outstanding authors of the younger generation from Croatia, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia and Wales who partici...