Books for adults (2)

Description Philip Gross is a poet, librettist and writer for young people. A keen collaborator with other poets and across art forms, he has lived...

Description Witty and engaging with a very dry sense of humour, Steve Fenwick's autobiography tells the story of the schoolboy from Nantgarw who be...

Description In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acce...

Description Octogenarian language geek Vernon, who’s never written a book, tries to find a way to write the story of his long marriage to Hannah. U...

Description An uplifting novel of family secrets and fresh starts. Grace is clearing her late husband’s things, when she discovers he had another f...

Description Faced with two murders, industrial espionage, a sexual predator, and a mining disaster, Thomas Chard must puzzle how these things fit t...

Description When Mr Collins is found murdered in Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s garden, simmering tensions are revealed beneath the elegant Regency sur...

Description The second title in the landmark series, the Library of Wales. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Mat...

Description Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence ...

Description When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance to change the course of their lives 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 A bitterly intelligent and gruesomely funny journey through the worlds of work, sex and rugby. Lewis Davies ruthlessly dissects a passi...

Description Covering one Sunday tournament in the depths of Languedoc when his team bids to make the National Finals, Bill Rees produces a deeply f...

Description David Lloyd Owen introduces us to the breadth of travellers' tales from a mysterious and absorbing country in a fascinating compendium....

Description Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon Teifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings and enchantments...

Description When the author is given a small package, containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather’s brother, who was killed in Syria ...

Description Kristian Bang Foss’ darkly comic, prize-winning road-novel satire sees two unlikely friends set out to defy the Danish welfare state – ...

Description Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film for a festival prize. It has taken seven gruelling years of his life to make and...

Description Easy Meat is a glimpse of a young man and a country on the verge of a momentous decision. The South Wales Valleys, 23rd June, 2016. It’...

Description Planet is a quarterly cultural and political magazine that looks at Wales from an international perspective, and at the world from a We...

Description Bridges have always been required to ease the passage of people and goods from the earliest of times. In this book are described steppi...

Description Like the rest of the UK, lockdown in Wales meant human tragedies and unforeseen pressures on our lives. How did we manage? What was the...

Description Wish You Were Here will give tourists and travellers alike a description of each of the 50 destinations from around the world listed, w...

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 A history of the Welsh language in Cardiff over a thousand years. Details ISBN: 9781784618827 Publication Date November 2020 Author: Ow...

Description By any reasonable measurement, Love Actually is a bad movie. There are plenty of bad movies out there, but what gets under Gary Raymond...

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

Description An anthology of poetry and prose, mainly celebratory, of the Welsh experience of Christmas as captured by various Welsh writers. First ...

Description This guide gives all the information needed to enjoy the 338km (210 mile) Severn Way. The book is divided into four sections that corre...

Description In the early 1900's north-east Wales was a dangerous place for women - Suffragist's meetings descended into near riot, or in some cases...

Description With its own Senedd and legislative powers, Wales is already on a journey towards independence. This report by the Independence Commiss...

Description On The Red Hill celebrates the ebb and flow of seasons, of ever-changing landscapes, and the family (both beloved and infuriating) that...

Description A selection of recipes celebrating one of Wales' best loved dishes - the Welsh Cake. These little cakes are peculiar to Wales; the Iris...

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...

Description Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group and the New Y...