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Description A Casual Life In Six T-Shirts is no ordinary memoir. Euron Griffith has lied to David Cassidy, seen his dreams of pop stardom being tor...
View full detailsDescription Sharon Morgan, the Welsh actress of stage and screen opens up to reveal the hidden challenges she has faced as a devoted mother of two....
View full detailsDescription Deeply funny and deeply sad, this memoir is a frank look into a child’s tumultuous mind, a classic story of a working-class girl growin...
View full detailsDescription One summer, a mother and daughter are reunited in the small village of Betws Gwerful Goch in North Wales following the death of a fathe...
View full detailsDescription A companion-volume to Annwyl D.J.. In the correspondence between Valentine and his two co-conspirators for the Welsh cause, we gain fur...
View full detailsDescription For 70 years, from his early days at secondary school until the present time, Hywel Gwynfryn has composed words in co-operation with nu...
View full detailsDescription Twm Morys and his songs need no introduction, and you are sure to encounter the unexpected and incredible in this volume. Details ISBN:...
View full detailsDescription Arfon Wyn was born in Y Gors, Holyhead, and reared in Gwalchmai and Llanfair PG. He is an Anglesey boy, through and through, and the is...
View full detailsDescription Siân James has been plucking harp strings since childhood. In this volume we gain an honest and clear self-analysis as she traces her ...
View full detailsDesription Rhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim, and the f...
View full detailsDescription Brilliant, honest and combative, his autobiography, written with Tom Fordyce, is the story of one of the most compelling and singular f...
View full detailsDescription Brilliant, honest and combative, Alun Wyn Jones's signed autobiography, written with Tom Fordyce, is the story of one of the most compe...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription The autobiography of Elfyn Llwyd, former Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament. He reveals stories from within his party and from the admini...
View full detailsDescription Life-affirming autobiography of Karl Phillips, The Bootlegger, a social-media sensation with 320K followers for his humorous matchday v...
View full detailsDescription Autobiography of the front man of ground breaking 70s rock Welsh group, Edward H Dafis. As well as stories about the band and his caree...
View full detailsDescription Autobiography of Llanelli prop, Welsh Rugby Union Board and International Rugby Board member Anthony Buchanan. A behind-the-scenes look...
View full detailsDescription The reminiscences of John Morris, former Labour MP for Aberavon and former Welsh Secretary of State. He is proud of his roots in rural ...
View full detailsDescription The official autobiography of Carwyn Jones, former First Minister of Wales. This is a book about a life lived in and out of the public ...
View full detailsDescription Aled Taylor, known as 'Coch' to his friends, was born in the shadow of Snowdon, and has spent his life preserving it. This volume compr...
View full detailsDescription In a colourful and frank account of a sterling career, Jamie Roberts reveals all about life on tour, in boot camps and in dressing room...
View full detailsDescription A glimpse into the history of one of the oldest cricket clubs in North Wales. Signed by the author Details ISBN: 9781845244378 Publicat...
View full detailsDescription Euros Wyn Jones was ordained a minister in 1977 and was also a professor and tutor to preachers and ministers from 1992. With a wide ci...
View full detailsDescription The community of Parc near Bala lost two valuable members in 2019; it was a loss felt throughout Wales. Both received the T. H. Parry-W...
View full detailsDescription A book for Welsh learners, Entry Level. Biography of Wynne Evans. A very personal and honest history of Wynne and his family, his exper...
View full detailsDescription Poet Menna Elfyn looks back at over fourty years of writing, performing her work throughout Wales and further afield and of raising iss...
View full detailsISBN: 9781847715357 Publication Date: June 2012 Publisher: Y LolfaFormat:Paperback44 pages Language: Welsh A book in the short and fast-paced ser...
View full detailsDescription The autobiography of musician and broadcaster Gareth Glyn, a familiar voice on radio programmes for 35 years and renowned world-wide fo...
View full detailsDescription David Vaughan Thomas was the most prominent and influential Welsh composer in the first decades of the 20th century, as he sought to mo...
View full detailsDescription A unique autobiography by a young author that leads us on a revealing, personal journey. Malachy Edwards faces his mixed-race, multi-cu...
View full detailsDescription Autobiography of talented actress and comedian, Carys Eleri, star of S4C series 'Parch' and the bilingual one woman comedy show, 'Lovec...
View full detailsDescription A volume of recollections by 11 individuals who have been in the midst of all kinds of protests, all presented with liveliness and hone...
View full detailsDescription The autobiography of Huw Jones, viewed against the backdrop of significant historical, political and cultural events. We hear of his up...
View full detailsDescription The autobiography of one of Wales' leading authors - Eigra Lewis Roberts, who has never forgotten her roots in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Deta...
View full detailsDescription Autobiography of distinguished psychiatrist David Enoch, author of modern classic Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes and committed Christia...
View full detailsDescription This is a hugely engaging, finely written and observed account of growing up on a farm on the Welsh border in the 1950s. It details the...
View full detailsDescription Johanna Francis watched the Nazis take Amsterdam, her wealthy family active in the resistance, sheltering a Jewish family and running a...
View full detailsDescription This is the story of Irfon Williams, a courageous, determined cancer sufferer who fought for the right to obtain drugs to extend his li...
View full detailsDescription Fighting to Speak reveals the journey of a miner's son with a stutter who succeeded to play rugby at the highest level and defeat his d...
View full detailsDescription When the author is given a small package, containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather’s brother, who was killed in Syria ...
View full detailsDescription Mike Phillips is one of Welsh rugby's most decorated players. With multiple Grand Slams and Lions tours under his belt, he was revered ...
View full detailsDescription Cathi McGill offers us an insight into Asturias, a relatively unknown part of Spain, and a small part of the Iberian peninsula that is ...
View full detailsDescription This is the story of the Hennessys from the standpoint of Dave Burns, one of the trio who enriched the folk singing scene in Wales and ...
View full detailsDescription A comprehensive biography of Eirian Wyn, popular minister and magician from Brynaman, comprising an account of his childhood, including...
View full detailsDescription The autobiography of the portrait artist David Griffiths, who was inspired to paint under the tutorship of his school art teacher, Elis...
View full detailsDescription The diary of farmer Tom Jones, Plascoch, Dolanog, during 2015, comprising interesting anecdotes by one who serves on many rural organiz...
View full detailsDescription 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...
View full detailsDescription In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It is a story of journeys and realisation, of acc...
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