Books for adults (2)

Description An overview of Welsh and British history from 1450–1720 providing a new assessment of Welsh gentility. The first full-length published ...

Description Expert analysis of the history of St Davids Cathedral. This special issue of the Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture f...

Description Contains the only full published English translation of the medieval Welsh bardic grammars and offers insight into the development of W...

Description Take my hand and let us dance together through Wales, and discover some fascinating and remarkable tales about Welsh Folk Dancing. Danc...

Description For the first time, here is an edition of new discoveries relating to Welsh medieval saints in early modern manuscripts. It will have a...

Description A timely look at the state of the National Health Service in the UK, from its creation in 1948 to today. General practice in the United...

Description A new look at the relationship between art and literature in Wales during the Victorian Age, revealing the original and astute vision o...

Description Everybody had written it off as waste ground. But when a planning application is made to build houses on this wild and green patch of G...

Description Essays that blend nature writing with memoir. On a wild and windswept stretch of the Durham coastline, there’s treasure to be found: je...

Description Fall River is a captivating blend of literary, mystery and history, all set against the backdrop of the strange allure of the Hamaoze a...

Description In 1984, Girlo Wolf is born into a world of pickets and poverty. Life on The Rock is precious, but growing-up is far from easy. Struggl...

Description Feral Monster follows Jax and her noisy, opinionated brain as they navigate love, identity, class and family. Mashing up grime, R&B...

Description Growing up in a lonely house on the edge of a wild common, Violet Hart is a quiet and sheltered only child who has always dreamt of bec...

Description When Taban wishes for the world to end something out there . . . hears him. Soon the young boy is being stalked by a fox whose salivati...

Description In his first collection of poems, Martin Huws is led by his strong social conscience from the Rhondda to Roath, from Paris to Palestine...

Description This is singer and composer Casi Wyn's first solo volume of poetry. She was Children's Poet Laureate of Wales 2021-2023 and has perform...

Description A murder mystery set in the period after the Second World War. Dela Arthur is the headmistress of the small primary school at Nant yr E...

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

Description An accessible introduction to the history of Wales’s literature. I awoke from a deep sleep I had taken under the shade of a tree in a f...

Description The first collection of personal testimonies by women in government in modern Wales: the first government to fulfil equality and balanc...

Description After a plot to assassinate the Czar of Russia is foiled by government agents, Inspector Thomas Chard is ordered to apprehend the would...

Description On an Eardisley farm, in conservative, rural mid Wales, lives Dean Goodwin-Evans aka Boo La Croux: farmer, organiser of Hereford Pride,...

Description The foxes and their tricksy friends collect up all the sparks of joy and inspiration that flow out into the world as we dance, picnic, ...

Description An inspiring and life-affirming story of a difficult childhood transformed into happy adulthood through the power of nature and gardens...

Description Winner of the 2021 New Welsh Writing Awards: Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting 'Vivid, quick and iridescent, Birdsp...

Description On receiving news of a beloved teacher’s death, a man struggles with the loss of a relationship sustained by deep admiration and love. ...

Description The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep undercurrents: of embodied and disembodied spiritualities;...

Description I Think We’re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new voice in British poetry. This was sup...

Description 'A BIG-HEARTED STORY ABOUT FINDING YOUR FEET AND FOLLOWING YOUR HEART' SARAH WATERS 'JOYFULLY QUEER, FILTHY AND FUN' CHLOE TIMMS 'A HUG...

Description Turner is a high school dropout newly arrived in Toronto.  After taking a job selling dictionaries for a local grifter named Romeo Silv...

Description 'Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood - this slim but devastating novel captures an entire village, an entire world, and the m...

Description With science fiction tropes recalling Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut and more recently Olga Ravn's The Employees, philosophical reflecti...

Description After Brutal London and Brutal North, a major new title in Simon Phipps' Brutal book series – the first ever photographic survey of mod...

Description A memoir about grief, nature and what a small community in the Welsh valleys can teach us about life. 'A beautiful and poetic meditatio...

Description How sheep shaped the landscape and culture of Wales and beyond. Human civilization was not just created by humans: we had the help of m...

Description Aneurin Bevan was a unique, socialist politician of conviction who left a noteable endowment to his fellow man - the National Health Se...