Books for adults (1)

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...

escription Nature-writer and hiker Julie Brominicks takes a year-long walk around the edge of Wales and discovers places she thought she knew can b...

Description Novel set in 1930s London and Wales against the background of approaching war and the fight against Fascism in Spain. Historical romant...

Description A comprehensive collection of the varied folklore of the Tanat Valley - Dyffryn Tanat, bringing together stories and traditions from th...

Description Fanny Imlay, Mary Shelley's half-sister, lies dead in distant Swansea. But did she really die? A cache of letters from 1816 suggest tha...

Description From the snowy peaks of Snowdonia to the glorious Wales Coastal Path, this compelling compendium is a fact-filled journey through Wales...

Description The history and cultures of Wales via stops along the A470. Description To see the whole of Wales, from cosmopolitan Cardiff in the sou...

Description A study of the creation of the historic county of Denbighshire in Wales.  The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons fol...

Description A mouse appears and drinks the boy's milk. He goes to the cow, the field, the well, and the mason, but they can't help him. Then he off...

Description A study of influential British Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan as a political thinker. Despite his contemporary legacy as an inst...

Description A critical contextualizing of the early work of modernist painter Ceri Richards. This study assesses Ceri Richards’s early art and care...

Description Novella set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic Wales a few years into the future. Aeronwy, a very ordinary middle-aged woman, finds herse...

Description A gripping 'cuckoo in the nest' domestic thriller, exploring how coercive control can tear a family apart. Set in Yorkshire and Cardiff...

Description Explores the theological beliefs and teachings of Griffith Jones, his support for the Welsh language, and his persuasion of English sup...

Description ‘A remarkable and important book’ – Murdo Macdonald, Planet Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Re...

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 The Welsh in North Staffordshire is a new local history book that uniquely examines Welsh migration to all parts of North Staffordshire...

Description A guide to the highest peaks in Wales, complete with log to fill in as you climb them! This unique pocket guide - to be used in conjunc...

Description 20 Wrexham legends recount some of the magic moments that paved the way to the Welsh soccer club's recent successes. Since its foundati...

Description A new, pocket size edition of a Welsh thesaurus comprising over 6,000 words and over 40,000 references to synonyms and antonyms. First ...

Description Change intrudes into the remote valleys of the Black Mountains. What will happen to life there, and to grieving farmer's daughter Beth,...

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 This book provides the modern reader with the key to understanding the structure and context of the complex and mysterious narrative Hi...

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 The Gwent Levels line the north shore of the Severn in South Wales: Cas Gwent (Chepstow) at its head; its more famous cousin, the Somer...

Description                 Do you ever think about your body and how it works? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well... pretty...

Description A lyrical, engaging, coming-of-age murder mystery set in the Great Freeze of 1963. Eleanor O'Dowd, a middle-aged piano teacher, is foun...

Description In 1966, 13 year old Veronica Groves disappeared on Borth fair night. In 1989, her twin Vince arrives home in Anglesey after a period w...

Description A journey through the natural landscapes of Wales. In Tir—the Welsh word for “land”—writer and ecologist Carwyn Graves takes us on a to...

Description A new collection of poems by Menna Elfyn with striking illustrations by artist Meinir Mathias. The collection comprises elegies and eul...

ISBN: 9781787479050 Publication Date April 2019Publisher: Quercus Publications, London Format: Paperback, 228 pages Language: English New Paperbac...

Description  This book compares how two underdog peoples shaped their modern national identities. Welsh Nonconformists, fighting for religious equa...

Description A new volume of poems by chaired and crowned bard Hywel Griffiths. In this collection, the Aberystwyth poet touches upon many themes cl...

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...

ISBN: 9781912631179 Publication Date October 2019Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont Format: Paperback, 215x140 mm, 240 pages Language: English In two y...

Description An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been W...