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Description A volume comprising the biographies of 18 Welsh ministers, tracing their calling to the ministry and how that calling was fulfilled, ov...
View full detailsDescription Isabel Adonis was born in London in 1951, to Welshwoman Catherine Alice Hughes, and renowned Guyanese artist Denis Williams, whose work...
View full detailsDescription Aneurin Bevan was a unique, socialist politician of conviction who left a noteable endowment to his fellow man - the National Health Se...
View full detailsDescription A fascinating work of social history which places the life and career of John Squire, a very influential figure in the musical life of ...
View full detailsDescription As the ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Poets, Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas represent two sides of the same coin. Bob Dylan made the music. Dylan T...
View full detailsDescription In 1957 Marlon Brando married a young studio actress called Anna Kashfi. He was thirty-three and at the pinnacle of his fame. The weddi...
View full detailsDescription A highly readable, in-depth analysis of the public life of Dame Margaret as wife of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. After a brief in...
View full detailsDescription The interesting story of John Puleston Jones, a talented, wise and eloquent man who was known as 'The Blind Preacher'. As a pacifist, h...
View full detailsDescription Portraits of some of Ceredigion's most famous people, with black and white pictures in each chapter. Written by renowned author and jou...
View full detailsDescription A comprehensive biography of John Roderick Rees, crofter, crowned bard and teacher, a simple yet complex personality. These contrasting...
View full detailsDescription Before Charles became King, he was Prince of Wales. It was a role he took more seriously than any predecessor of the modern British mon...
View full detailsDescription A biography of William Abraham (1842-1922), a miners' household hero, Trade Union pioneer, Member of Parliament for Rhondda from 1885 t...
View full detailsDescription The entertaining autobiography of John Glyn Jones, well-known Welsh cornet player, conductor of Oakeley band for over 25 years, and bra...
View full detailsDescription In this volume we follow Cranogwen, Sarah Jane Rees (1893-1916) of Llangrannog. She was a poet, lecturer, editor, preacher and temperan...
View full detailsDescription A biography of Gwilym Prys-Davies, an astute and hard working politician who had a massive influence on Welsh politics and culture. Wri...
View full detailsDescription The first full biography of Albert Evans Jones (1895-1970) - Cynan as he was known - a larger than life character who was influential i...
View full detailsDescription A timely volume celebrating the 40th milestone of Y Talwrn, one of Radio Cymru's most popular programmes. Details ISBN: 9781911584254 P...
View full detailsDescription A special volume celebrating the contribution of Grace Roberts to the literary world in Wales for over 60 years. All her writings are v...
View full detailsDescription The story of a particular Welsh community during the American Civil War. It focuses in an easy-to-read style on the army members and al...
View full detailsDescription A beautifully designed, fully illustrated introduction to the life and work of Dylan Thomas, probably Wales' most beloved writer. A bio...
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 Many authors have recounted the extraordinary achievements and the turmoil of Frank Lloyd Wright's life, but this is the first study to...
View full detailsDescription This landmark biography, enriched with unrivalled access to private papers and international archives, tells the remarkable story of on...
View full detailsDescription A volume that traces the effect that reporting in difficult circumstances has had on some of Wales's most noteable journalists. We hear...
View full detailsDescription Ray Gravell was undoubtedly one of Wales and rugby's greatest characters. He touched the hearts of all who met him, and his sincere int...
View full detailsDescription The life and work of mathematician and actuary Griffith Davies. The book describes his education and work and the social and economic b...
View full detailsDescription A tribute to Steffan Lewis, in Welsh and in English with picture section to remember one of Wales's most promising politicians followin...
View full detailsDescription Harri Parri, one of Wales' most popular authors, portrays ten people who are 'one-offs'! Special people who have followed their own pat...
View full detailsDescription A readable volume covering the humour of three of Ceredigion's leading writers: Moc Rogers, Tegwyn Jones and Hywel Teifi Edwards. Detai...
View full detailsDescription Hugh Gruffydd Ellis (1865-1952) was a countryside bard from the Banwy Valley, who's best remembered for his two ballads which describe ...
View full detailsDescription A memoir about grief, nature and what a small community in the Welsh valleys can teach us about life. 'A beautiful and poetic meditatio...
View full detailsDescription In Service is the tale of one person's journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. Details ISBN: 9781803992...
View full detailsDescription In 2005 Diana Ashworth and her husband spotted a dilapidated farmhouse with 25 acres in a rural hamlet in Montgomeryshire, the plan b...
View full detailsDescription Biography of Jan Morris comprising photographs and stories, together with ten tributes by writers and friends. Details ISBN: 9781845277...
View full detailsDescription It was appropriate to begin this musical pilgrimage in Pwllheli, and to draw it to a close only a few miles from the town. Leila Megàne...
View full detailsDescription This is the story of a unique habitat that has been so ravaged, most people today don’t realise it exists. Temperate rainforest may onc...
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