Books for adults (2)

Description A surf-obsessed brother and sister embark on a journey in a camper van. The van was given to them by their father Geoff, and his last r...

Description This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women’s movement in modern Wales. A panoramic sweep takes the reader on a jou...

Description This new edition of 'Hands Off Wales' addresses the campaign of militant activism which Wales witnessed between 1963 and 1969, showing ...

Description Johanna Francis watched the Nazis take Amsterdam, her wealthy family active in the resistance, sheltering a Jewish family and running a...

Description The story of two brothers in World War II. Christopher Burney was a secret agent tortured by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration ca...

Description In Delirium, Robert Minhinnick addresses his square mile: a small coastal town and massive sand dunes. But its uniqueness is challenged...

Description In 1994 two girls are pen-pals. Then Victoria's letters from Rwanda stop; in Paris Iris can only wonder why. Twenty years later, journa...

Description Original crime shorts from Welsh women writers - debutantes and established - from 19th century Swansea docks to 21st century Turkey, m...

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 power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through As if to Sing. Full of poems about family, the poet's relationship wi...

Description This collection moves from opening poems about Wales and the possilibities of independence, to an ending of three poems based in Corfu....

Description Peter Finch has developed his particular poetics for fifty years. His blending of the avant-garde, concrete, visual, sound and more con...

Description Peter Finch has developed his particular poetics for fifty years. His blending of the avant-garde, concrete, visual, sound and more con...

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 Listen. The bee walks across my finger, slow as anything and I can see through the gauzy wing, to the detail of my skin. You aren't loo...

Description The history of Wales as a destination and confection of English Romantic writers is well-known, but this book reverses the process, tur...

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 An entertaining and informative reflective biographical account of the times and life of actor William 'Bill' Roache that will have end...

Description The poems in Homelands by Eric Ngalle Charles are irresistibly rich in tone, subject and emotion. Native to Cameroon in west Africa, he...

Description Traditionally, the communities along the western coast of Wales thrived on maritime trade and fishing. The produce of the farmland and ...

Description This study identifies and discusses the various forms of winter wassailing found in Wales, in times past and present. It focuses specif...

Description his second book, Snowdonia Slate 2 - The story with photographs, complements and adds to the descriptions of the first volume. It is wr...

Description Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are in turn chilling, playful, and melancholy. The bonds of family and of commun...

Description Sara John presents us with an eclectic collection of tantalising tales originating from the author's childhood in South Wales during th...

Description A novel set in a rural community in North Wales in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three siblings, all with hidden motivation, s...

Description Much less known than the slate industry in Snowdonia are the metal mines. But these, too, greatly contributed to the economy of the are...

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

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

Description There are so many amazing stories associated with the ancient pubs of Wales: some of them true, some of them exaggerated and some of th...

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

Description When Francis House enlists in the British Army in 1907, at the age of 15 years and three months, he is not thinking about war. He imagi...

Description Originally published as a single-volume 'Who's Who' in 1991, with the players listed alphabetically, this new three-volume collection l...

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 Moving from Penrhyn castle in Snowdonia in the 19th century to the harsh sugar plantations of Jamaica, this is a story of stark beauty ...