English books for adults

Description To mark the 50th anniversary of Housman Society, we are publishing a new, full colour photographic edition of A Shropshire Lad. This is...

Description Signed by the author In a colourful and frank account of a sterling career, Jamie Roberts reveals all about life on tour, in boot camps...

Description The definitive analysis of one of the UK's most beloved nature spots, written by an expert with 50 years' experience in the field and a...

Description From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...

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 This garden notebook is based on Sue's practical experience and has been specially designed to be an invaluable aid to gardeners. Along...

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

Description Poems exploring the author's grandmother's Indian heritage and the fauna and flora of subcontinental jungles. We encounter tales of wil...

Description Tinseltown tells the story of this extraordinary, unpredictable and often surreal football takeover and the remarkable events that foll...

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 This fully illustrated volume contains a selection from the many thousands of works spanning more than seven hundred years, with short ...

Description A volume celebrating sixty years since the establishment of the Books Council of Wales, comprising sixteen chapters by various scholars...

Description In this enchanting illustrated adaptation, Cerys Matthews brings Dylan Thomas's beloved classic to new life. This is a bedtime story li...

Description The new novel from Ruth Jones, author of the smash-hit, number one bestselling début, Never Greener. Meet Lana, Judith and Catrin. Best...

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  A volume that explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich, forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters ...

Description For nearly 500 years the Marcher lordships and their lords were at the centre of events that affected the history of England and Wales,...

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

Description In 2015 Emily Chappell embarked on a formidable new bike race: The Transcontinental. 4,000km across Europe, unassisted, in the shortest...

Description Margaret Erskine Wilson, late President of Kendal Natural History Society, was a keen amateur botanist and watercolourist. In 1999, she...

Description  The year turns, harvest approaches, and the longer night skies fill with stars. And sometimes, just sometimes, maybe once in a thousan...

Description A unique environment created by the confluence of three oceanic, climatic zones, the Welsh coast and its waters teem with life and dive...