English books for adults

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 ...

Description Fighting to free herself from a toxic relationship, 21-year-old Lora escapes to her recently widowed grandmother's home in Hamburg. Whe...

Description  The year turns, harvest approaches, and the longer night skies fill with stars. And sometimes, just sometimes, maybe once in a thousan...

Description Wish You Were Here will give tourists and travellers alike a description of each of the 50 destinations from around the world listed, w...

Descriptions In this collaboration between a Druid and a Witchcraft researcher, Jon G. Hughes and Sophie Gallagher describe in intricate detail the...

Description This collection brings together leading voices from female writers, artists, commentators and academics to reflect on how devolution ha...

Description A unique environment created by the confluence of three oceanic, climatic zones, the Welsh coast and its waters teem with life and dive...

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

Description This is a skilful collection by a poet well acquainted with relative place: wherever a poem lives, it always remembers its place in the...

Description A fascinating mix of historical, personal and engineering insights into the life and work of Thomas Telford, arguably Britain's greates...

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 A fascinating illustrated account of the industrial heritage of the town and county borough of Wrexham across the centuries. Details IS...

ISBN: 9780752476896 Publication Date November 2014Publisher: The History Press, Stroud Format: Paperback, 198x124 mm, 192 pages Language: English A...

Description This timely study demonstrates how, for a century and a half, important Welsh writers and intellectuals have dreamt of belonging to mai...

Description A reference book for (northern) Welsh learners. A summary of the patterns that learners of Wlpan, Pellach and Uwch have met since they ...

  Description  This is the book that many Welsh football fans thought they'd never get to read - a tale of outstanding performances at home and awa...