English books for adults

Description Money is one of the most important languages on the planet. In this book, Linda Davies helps people understand and speak it better. Det...

Description An authoritative guide to the many uses one can make of a traditio nal welsh hat: 101 to be precise. Though number 34 is questionable ,...

Description A passionate, entertaining, challenging and very practical workbook towards Wales’ independence and readers’ own independence of mind –...

Description This practical guide is both an easy introduction to astronomy and a useful reference for seasoned stargazers. Now includes a section o...

Description It can be easily argued that verbs are one of the most important building blocks of any language, but, when dealing with a VSO (verb-su...

Desription Tremadog Bay and beyondClose-hauled at 8 knotsTide rips and whirlpools… “You need more experience. Let me help you.” A wise, generous of...

Description A League of our Own, written by freelance football journalist Mark Langshaw and containing over 60 photographs and illustrations, is th...

Description A pamphlet describing the history of the Welsh language nationally, regionally and locally.  The local situation reflects the situation...

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

Description ♥ English Book of the Month: February 2021 1904: 21 year-old Ellen has been summoned back from her new life in New Jersey, to the famil...

Description A collection of 30 delicious vegan recipes with traditional Nigerian flavours. Maggie's immaculate balance of flavours combined with pl...

Description A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's dee...

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 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 The ancient woods of south-east Wales are treasures of a rich landscape. Describing the geology, history and flora of many individual w...

Description Isabel Adonis was born in London in 1951, to Welshwoman Catherine Alice Hughes, and renowned Guyanese artist Denis Williams, whose work...

Description The combination of flour, yeast, water and salt, bread is a mainstay of diets around the world. TV chef Angela Gray provides recipes fo...

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 Drawing from animal studies, this is a study of how Welsh literature explores relationships among animals and between humans and animal...

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 Arthur Gould is a definitive biography of a record-breaking Welsh international player widely acknowledged as the first superstar of ru...

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 A very useful Welsh grammar pocket book based on the highly successful Welsh Learners website of the same name, comprising a guide for ...

Desription Rhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim, and the f...

Description Brilliant, honest and combative, his autobiography, written with Tom Fordyce, is the story of one of the most compelling and singular f...

Description Brilliant, honest and combative, Alun Wyn Jones's signed autobiography, written with Tom Fordyce, is the story of one of the most compe...

Description A fascinating work of social history which places the life and career of John Squire, a very influential figure in the musical life of ...

Description A novel centred on a headstrong working-class girl in 18th-century north Wales. Peggin is a maid to the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, ...

Description A few moments before eight o'clock on the morning of 4th April, 1862, Richard Rowlands, or Dic Rolant as he was called, husband, father...

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 In pursuit of moments of feeling 'sharply alive', confronting fear of the body's betrayals, and roaming across Wales, Scotland, Califor...

Description A century after a disaster floods a quarry in North Wales, a young woman inherits a house nearby. A weekend with her boyfriend in her d...

Description Dylan was six when The End came, back in 2018; when the electricity went off for good, and the 'normal' 21st-century world he knew disa...

Description As the ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Poets, Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas represent two sides of the same coin. Bob Dylan made the music. Dylan T...

Description Life-affirming autobiography of Karl Phillips, The Bootlegger, a social-media sensation with 320K followers for his humorous matchday v...

Description Featuring over 50 of the finest boxers from North, Mid and West Wales, including the first British boxer ever to win a medal at the wor...