English books for adults

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

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

Description Fighting to Speak reveals the journey of a miner's son with a stutter who succeeded to play rugby at the highest level and defeat his d...

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 Five Nights Out takes us on a journey through Hugh's interactions with some of our favourite nocturnal creatures including hedgehogs, b...

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 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 In The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts, renowned folklorists Delyth Badder and Mark Norman present an intriguing and comprehensive selection...

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 Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Je...

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 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 Unique 2024 bilingual calendar by Driftwood Designs with 12 images of different full moons at different times of the year. Details Cod...

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...

ISBN: 9781912631254 Publication Date December 2019Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont Format: Paperback, 215x140 mm, 144 pages Language: English After a...

Desription Gay Aliens and Queer Folk takes a deep dive into the queer narratives Russell T Davies has brought to our screens, exploring how each wo...

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

ISBN: 9781781724736 Publication Date November 2018Publisher: Seren, Bridgend Format: Paperback, 216x138 mm, 72 pages Language: English This is acc...

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...