Book Festival
11th April 2026
Welsh autobiographies and reminiscences. Autobiographies by Welsh celebrities. English autobiographies by Welsh celebrities and sportspeople.
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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...
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Description Christopher Davies, aka Gyp, is a former miner from the Maesteg area in south Wales. It recounts the tale of a working-class man who ha...
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Description 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....
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Description A volume of the reminiscences and political commentary by noteable campaigner Simon Brooks. The author offers a penetrating analysis of...
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Description Aled Jones was a choirboy with a remarkable voice, whose prodigious talent propelled him to international stardom. Before he was 16, he...
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Description 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...
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Description 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...
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Description A companion-volume to Annwyl D.J.. In the correspondence between Valentine and his two co-conspirators for the Welsh cause, we gain fur...
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Description For 70 years, from his early days at secondary school until the present time, Hywel Gwynfryn has composed words in co-operation with nu...
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Description Twm Morys and his songs need no introduction, and you are sure to encounter the unexpected and incredible in this volume. Details ISBN:...
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Description 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...
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Description In this, the latest title in the popular series Atgofion drwy Ganeuon, we gain an insight into the life, music and muse of a unique sin...
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Description Siân James has been plucking harp strings since childhood. In this volume we gain an honest and clear self-analysis as she traces her ...
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Description The poet and composer from Blaenau Ffestiniog recalls some of his experiences along with a notable selection of his songs, their signif...
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Description The memories of Ifan Phillips, a former rugby player, as he copes with life after losing his leg. Details
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Desription 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...
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Description Brilliant, honest and combative, his autobiography, written with Tom Fordyce, is the story of one of the most compelling and singular f...
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Description 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...
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Description The autobiography of Elfyn Llwyd, former Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament. He reveals stories from within his party and from the admini...
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Description Winner of the 2021 New Welsh Writing Awards: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting 'Vivid, quick and iridescent, Birdsp...
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Description Life-affirming autobiography of Karl Phillips, The Bootlegger, a social-media sensation with 320K followers for his humorous matchday v...
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Description 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...
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Description This volume contains the memories of one of the most committed Welsh language. In this bold and outspoken memoir we experience a flavou...
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Description Autobiography of Llanelli prop, Welsh Rugby Union Board and International Rugby Board member Anthony Buchanan. A behind-the-scenes look...
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Description A series of biographical essays that move swiftly through memory but also give rein to imagination to weave colour. The essays comprise...
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Description The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The heartbreaking, true account of his son strug...
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Description 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 ...
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Description 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...
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Description 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...
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Description The full autobiography of renowned international rugby referee Nigel Owens. This volume continues from Hanner Amser, published in 2008,...
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Description A glimpse into the history of one of the oldest cricket clubs in North Wales. Signed by the author Details ISBN: 9781845244378 Publicat...
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Description 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...
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Description 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...
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Description Arthur Gwynn Jones is a talented craftsman who spent half his life in Flintshire. Through a series of entertaining reminiscences, we ga...
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Description A book for Welsh learners, Entry Level. Biography of Wynne Evans. A very personal and honest history of Wynne and his family, his exper...
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Description Poet Menna Elfyn looks back at over fourty years of writing, performing her work throughout Wales and further afield and of raising iss...
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Really lovely quality ornament , slightly larger than I anticipated but very nice , would recommend.
Lovely for my daughter