English books for adults

Description John Devereux was one of the stars of the 1987 rugby union World Cup as Wales finished third. He appeared for the British and Irish lio...

Description Biography of Dic Penderyn, hanged for stabbing a soldier after the 1831 Merthyr Rising – a crime later confessed to by someone else – a...

Description ♥ English Book of the Month: November 2021 Michael O’Brien was a victim of a miscarriage of justice over a murder in Cardiff. He was dr...

Description The history of Ukrainian town Hughesovka, a mining/steel town founded in the 1870s by Welsh entrepreneur John Hughes and 70 Welsh worke...

Description The hauntingly atmospheric English-language début from the acclaimed Welsh author: a love story between a young Welsh woman and a Syria...

Description A beautifully designed, fully illustrated introduction to the life and work of Dylan Thomas, probably Wales' most beloved writer. A bio...

Desription When Detective Chief Inspector Gary Probert is temporarily transferred, against his will, from Telford to the quiet border town of Oswes...

Description This book explores the history of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It tackles subjects such as the Union of Wales and England...

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 When Francis House enlists in the British Army in 1907, at the age of 15 years and three months, he is not thinking about war. He imagi...

Description Autobiography of distinguished psychiatrist David Enoch, author of modern classic Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes and committed Christia...

Description This new edition retains Condry's original superlative prose but adds new material by Neville Jones about sites not accessible in 1970....

Description A feminist reimagining of the story of Fantine, the much-loved character from Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Miserables, its many dram...

Description This is a hugely engaging, finely written and observed account of growing up on a farm on the Welsh border in the 1950s. It details the...

Description I won't be the first to tell you that actually using your Welsh is the very best way to acquire it successfully. So, what better way to...

Description Johanna Francis watched the Nazis take Amsterdam, her wealthy family active in the resistance, sheltering a Jewish family and running a...

Description Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are in turn chilling, playful, and melancholy. The bonds of family and of commun...

Description Insightful, first-hand accounts of refugees fleeing to Wales to escape Nazism in the 1930s and 40s. A popular topic, this book appeals ...

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 For almost 160 years south Wales, better known for coal and steel, was a prolific centre of pottery and porcelain production. Items ran...

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 A contemporary gazetteer to Welsh football for the 2023-2024 season, with a bilingual introduction. Details ISBN: 9781739608316 Publi...

Description In Footnotes to Water, poet Zoë Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and the Bièvre in Paris, and tracks the lite...

Description Mathematics is an integral component of Welsh culture. In this book, the history of twelve mathematicians born in Wales or who worked i...

Description Wales is a land of castles. The best known are those built in the 13th century under King Edward I to defeat the native princes, but th...

Description Many authors have recounted the extraordinary achievements and the turmoil of Frank Lloyd Wright's life, but this is the first study to...

Description A study of the thirty-five libraries built by Andrew Carnegie in Wales as an illustration of his world-wide commitment to the public li...

Description Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's TV series about their shock buyout of Wrexham AFC has propelled the team to unimaginable new popular...

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...

Description This landmark biography, enriched with unrivalled access to private papers and international archives, tells the remarkable story of on...

Description A 20th anniversary edition with a foreword by James Dean Bradfield . Fiercely honest, compassionate, unconventional, political and pers...

Description The hitherto untold story of a civilian tented hospital, raised by public subscription in Wales. It travelled to South Africa in 1900 a...

Description Reissue of the celebrated Welsh writer's seminal short novel, repackaged with a stunning new cover. Introduction by acclaimed Welsh aca...

Description This book examines masculinity and femininity in Wales across modern Welsh history. Contributors question what it meant to be a man and...

Description This book argues that industrial patriarchy in South Wales established an exclusive though damaging form of structural masculine confor...