Books for adults (2)

Description A volume that throws a valuable light on the language and life of John Jones, Gellilyfdy, a Flintshire nobleman at the beginning of the...

Description Recklessly honest, and as funny as it is grave, Original Sins is an extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction. But ul...

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

Description Rhys ap Gruffydd stands out as a prince of unusual talent, vision and insight. A native ruler, he was an astute politician, a zealous r...

Description Twins Ana and Nan are lost after their mother's death. Everyone knows who drove Elena, the renowned novelist, to suicide – her long-ter...

Description In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies's text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horácek to provide ins...

Description Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and watercolourist. In 1999, she...

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

Description This selection of 108 portrait images documents several journeys made by Diane Barker to join in the everyday lives of the ancient noma...

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...

Description Visual culture has long been a vital component in the creation and dissemination of this prevalent national brand. The Art of Music des...

Description This fully illustrated volume contains a selection from the many thousands of works spanning more than seven hundred years, with short ...

Description This fully illustrated volume contains a selection from the many thousands of works spanning more than seven hundred years, with short ...

Description Two sisters, two nuclear power stations, one child caught in the middle... When Helen, a self-taught prepper and single mother, leaves ...

Description THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER: INTRODUCING DC FFION MORGAN, IN THE UNMISSABLE NEW SERIES FROM CLARE MACKINTOSH On New Year'...

Description Produced by Huw Alden Davies; Designed by award winning artist/curator Abby Poulson, Carnifal begins through the words of Dr. Paul Cabu...

Description Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Je...

Description A short history of one of Ancient Britain's most enigmatic civilisations. The first in-depth history of the Celts in Britain, from one ...

Description This book focuses on the stories of Syrians who have found refuge in Wales, based on their own oral testimonies. They were recorded as ...

Description A collection of about 90 paintings by the artist Rob Piercy of his favourite area - Snowdonia. Details ISBN: 9781845277291 Publication...

Description The first book to focus on this important Welsh artist. A beautiful bilingual volume, illustrated throughout with images of his work, l...

Description Rivers of Wales does exactly what it says on the tin - in this book Jim Perrin introduces and revels in the nature of our rivers, writi...

Description Get your gardening gloves on, as best-selling author Huw Richards takes you on a green-fingered journey to be an undefeated veg-grower!...

Description Medieval gardens usually rate very few pages in the garden history books. The general perception is still of small gardens in the corne...

Description With rare experience in both primary and secondary phases and at leadership as well as classroom levels, Mark Creasy is ideally placed ...

Description A study of the imagery of Welsh saints in medieval and 19th/20th-century stained glass, sculpture and painting. Overview and analysis, ...

Description The Long Field braids the essential hiraeth stories of Wales with Pamela Petro's own life - as an American who loves Wales, as a gay wo...

Description This is the story of Sir David James, who spent his early years in Pontrhydfendigaid, but lived most of his life in London where he dev...

Description With her particular expertise, Dr Ma in her study is able to draw comparisons between the work of Kyffin Williams and Chinese art, link...

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 The stories of women from Wales’ minority communities are seldom heard. This book comprises the life stories of 40 Black Asian Minority...

Description A volume celebrating sixty years since the establishment of the Books Council of Wales, comprising sixteen chapters by various scholars...

Description A volume celebrating sixty years since the Books Council of Wales was established, comprising 16 chapters by various scholars and contr...

Description Every scribbler has old writings collected over the years. This volume comprises a collection of those writings: lectures, articles and...

Description Hardback book with ribbon which has been numbered. Comprising over 104 images. A volume of appreciation for the life and work of eminen...

Description Poems exploring the author's grandmother's Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. We encounter tales of wil...

Description When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked...

Description Questions of humanity, of point of view, are at the heart of Fiona Sampson’s new collection, Come Down.Throughout, Sampson’s poems shim...

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...

Description Take an intimate journey with award-winning wildlife photographer Drew Buckley as he observes the trials and joys of the Atlantic Puffi...

Description The definitive analysis of one of the UK's most beloved nature spots, written by an expert with 50 years' experience in the field and a...

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...

Description Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribulations and they love to ride them - a...

Description The Hedgehog Book is the latest in the compact, accessible Nature Books series, exploring our relationship with some of Britain’s best-...

Description In 2015 Emily Chappell embarked on a formidable new bike race: The Transcontinental. 4,000km across Europe, unassisted, in the shortest...

Description First heard on BBC Radio 4. From one of the most celebrated writers of his generation, Stillicide is a moving story of love and loss an...