Welsh Biographies

Description On Christmas Eve, Mari takes mince pies to Mrs Cloch - a lonely old lady who has no visitors. Mari helps her to decorate the Christmas ...

Description Minnie Pallister’ s life was so fantastic that not even a thriller writer could imagine it. A feminist, pacifist and socialist, she was...

Description Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the...

Description From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...

Description Mr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the first biography of Gareth Jones and reveals the remarkable yet tragically short life of th...

Description A striking memoir that travels through a traumatic childhood with an abusive mother. In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the i...

Description The contribution of Vaughan Hughes to Wales' culture was enormous: he was a journalist and a columnist, a poet and a writer, a broadcas...

Description A tribute volume to one of Wales' most prominent campaigners and writers, Gareth Miles. Details

Description Owen Morgan Edwards, from Llanuwchllyn in Gwynedd, was a politician, scholar, writer and publisher of magazines. He is well-known for p...

Description The author’s memoirs of growing up on the Llŷn Peninsula in the 1950s and 1960s, bookended by memories from other members of the Pwllhe...

Description Following his creative non-fiction début, Y Delyn Aur (2023), Malachy Edwards takes his readers on a further journey in Paradwys Goll (...

Description A foretaste of a larger publication which will feature 27 Welsh bards, this volume presents interview portraits of three bards who are ...

Description Biography of well-known character, Goronwy Evans, who has served as a minister for fifty years, and who is one of Lampeter's unique cha...

Description When he was a child, Alwyn Harding Jones discovered a book in his grandfather's handwriting recording the diary of Captain John Hughes,...

Description The revealing autobiography of Anglesey actress and presenter, Marged Esli who has enjoyed a long and varied career. She has always bel...

Description The first full-length biography of Edward Lhwyd, this is an important contribution to the history of science in the fields of botany, p...

Description Landmark collection of first-hand testimonies of the women in contemporary Welsh government who were the first in the world to achieve ...

Description Farming methods are often viewed as harmful to nature and the environment, causing friction between those wanting to protect wildlife a...

Description From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...