English books for adults

Description Beginners' course for Welsh learners, ideal for self-study. 16 units use strip cartoons to present sentence structures and grammar poin...

Description What does it mean to imagine Wales and 'The Welsh' as something both distinct and inclusive? In this book, Welsh writers condider the f...

Description The region around Oswestry in north-west Shropshire is a remarkable corner of England in which, for much of the last thousand years, We...

Description Set out in the form of a memoir, Stephen Rule goes about tackling the challenges and celebrating the successes of the Welsh language in...

Description The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry ...

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 Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this urgent and challenging book provides the first academic account of the operation o...

Description A collection of over 60 folk tales by expert in the field Robin Gwyndaf. Includes the stories of Cantre'r Gwaelod (Ceredigion), Nant Gw...

Description  A volume that explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich, forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters ...

Description Welsh in Twelve Weeks introduces you to the essential vocabulary and main grammatical areas of Welsh. Details ISBN: 9781845277246 Publi...

Description This volume is the fruit of decades of research by the Revd D Ben Rees into the unique story of the Welsh people living in Liverpool an...

Description A history of the Welsh language in Cardiff over a thousand years. Details ISBN: 9781784618827 Publication Date November 2020 Author: Ow...

Description For nearly 500 years the Marcher lordships and their lords were at the centre of events that affected the history of England and Wales,...

Description Learn the words and the fascinating story of one of the world's most loved national anthems. The book includes the music, original Wels...

Description A radical reinterpretation of the effect of excluding Welsh from schools on the fortunes of the language. Most people in Wales know tha...

Description The glory days of Welsh rugby seem long ago now. Mortifying defeats, threatened strike action, institutionalised sexism, racism and hom...

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

Description This book argues for a new Welsh Way, one that is truly radical and transformational. A call for a political engagement that will creat...

Description Which Welsh woman led a double life as a pirate and smuggler? Which harpist and wrestler threw a man into a lake? Who led the first soc...

Description One is in everything. One lives throughout the universe and beyond... One of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth cen...

Description 34th in the Welsh Women's Classics series. The first ever collection of Dorothy Bonarjee's verse, offering an expert assessment of Bona...

ISBN: 9781783784233 Publication Date April 2019Publisher: Granta Publications, Croydon Format: Paperback, 197x129 mm, 155 pages Language: English ...

Desription 1792: Nantucket whalers, invited to found the port of Milford Haven, are preceded by a beached whale. An omen for the local people, but ...

Description A road trip through Wales and its rich history of folklore. Russ Williams was raised on Welsh stories, like the one about a mountain th...

Description Well-known shearing commentator Evans discusses his farming life, from a tough post-war childhood with no mother, tractor or car, to da...

Description Anne Hayward spends several months each year walking to sacred sites in Britain and beyond, now having covered many thousands of miles....

Description In 2015 Emily Chappell embarked on a formidable new bike race: The Transcontinental. 4,000km across Europe, unassisted, in the shortest...

Description The definitive guide to the birdwatching sites of Wales, which remains one of the most alluring regions for birdwatchers; its range of ...

Description A timely look at the state of the National Health Service in the UK, from its creation in 1948 to today. General practice in the United...

Description One of Wales's leading writers, this posthumous volume brings together a selection of Jenkins' poetry from across his career. Selected ...

Description Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and watercolourist. In 1999, she...

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 The best-selling Wild Swimming Walks series returns with adventures in Wales' most popular National Park. Swim through secret valleys a...

Description Sprinkled with humorous reminiscences and fond memories from times past, brought to mind by the dishes she serves up, this is a labour ...

Description Wild Wales by George Borrow is the classic travel book on Wales. Since its first publication in 1862, it has rarely been out of print. ...

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