English books for adults

Description A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with 60+ words and phrases you can use to practise your North Wales Welsh w...

Description A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with 50+ words and phrases for you to practise your Maori with your furry b...

Description A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with 60+ words and phrases you can use to practise your Welsh with your bes...

Description In the summer of 2012 Delyth Jenkins walked the 186 miles of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path. She carried a small harp with her, giving a ...

Description Grief faces all of us in the end. This collection explores how poets have expressed and attempted to come to some kind of understanding...

Desription Stunning North Wales.An estuary of breathtaking beauty.A historic slate-trade harbour... “Keep your wits about you, girl.” Wise advice t...

Description The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale's entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence an...

Description The first book-length study of Wales’s second political party in the decades after World War II.  Wales is often considered one of the ...

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 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 What the fascinating life of Edward Vaughan reveals about the politics of early modern England and Wales. This book tells the remarkabl...

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 This volume describes the development of religious thought in Wales between 1760 and 1900. Although the emphasis is on religious though...

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 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 It is unusual to see a book about the tides of a single country. A book about tides in Wales is akin to, for example, one about rainbow...

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 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...

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

Description With its own Senedd and legislative powers, Wales is already on a journey towards independence. This report by the Independence Commiss...

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

Description An extremely comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the castle under Wales' native rulers (c.1066-1283)...

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...