English books for adults

Description The region around Oswestry in north-west Shropshire is a remarkable corner of England in which, for much of the last thousand years, We...

Description Set out in the form of a memoir, Stephen Rule goes about tackling the challenges and celebrating the successes of the Welsh language in...

Description The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry ...

Description A Welsh County at War is not a military history of horror in the trenches, but a social and cultural history of life in one Welsh count...

Description Based on official data and in-depth interviews, this urgent and challenging book provides the first academic account of the operation o...

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

Description The independent voice of Welsh soccer. A guide to Welsh Football for the 2022/23 season. Details ISBN: 9781739608309 Publication Date: ...

Description The independent voice of Welsh soccer. The New Year edition of the magazine that includes the latest news, fixtures and results. Detail...

Description The independent voice of Welsh soccer. The New Year edition of the magazine that includes the latest news, fixtures and results. Detail...

Description The end of season edition comprising a full review of the 2022-23 season, and is the only publication, in print or online, which contai...

Description Welsh in Twelve Weeks introduces you to the essential vocabulary and main grammatical areas of Welsh. Details ISBN: 9781845277246 Publi...

Description This volume is the fruit of decades of research by the Revd D Ben Rees into the unique story of the Welsh people living in Liverpool an...

Description A history of the Welsh language in Cardiff over a thousand years. Details ISBN: 9781784618827 Publication Date November 2020 Author: Ow...

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 Learn the words and the fascinating story of one of the world's most loved national anthems. The book includes the music, original Wels...

Description The glory days of Welsh rugby seem long ago now. Mortifying defeats, threatened strike action, institutionalised sexism, racism and hom...

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

Description This book argues for a new Welsh Way, one that is truly radical and transformational. A call for a political engagement that will creat...

Description One is in everything. One lives throughout the universe and beyond... One of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth cen...

Description 34th in the Welsh Women's Classics series. The first ever collection of Dorothy Bonarjee's verse, offering an expert assessment of Bona...

ISBN: 9781783784233 Publication Date April 2019Publisher: Granta Publications, Croydon Format: Paperback, 197x129 mm, 155 pages Language: English ...

Desription 1792: Nantucket whalers, invited to found the port of Milford Haven, are preceded by a beached whale. An omen for the local people, but ...

Description Well-known shearing commentator Evans discusses his farming life, from a tough post-war childhood with no mother, tractor or car, to da...

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

Description The definitive guide to the birdwatching sites of Wales, which remains one of the most alluring regions for birdwatchers; its range of ...

Description One of Wales's leading writers, this posthumous volume brings together a selection of Jenkins' poetry from across his career. Selected ...

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

Description When Ida loses both job and parents in just a few weeks she sets off to Wales to the house her father has left her. But Heather, whose ...

Description The best-selling Wild Swimming Walks series returns with adventures in Wales' most popular National Park. Swim through secret valleys a...

Description Sprinkled with humorous reminiscences and fond memories from times past, brought to mind by the dishes she serves up, this is a labour ...

Description Wild Wales by George Borrow is the classic travel book on Wales. Since its first publication in 1862, it has rarely been out of print. ...

Description Susie Wild writes of fruit blown down by the wind and of unexpected and unearned gains and advantages. Here flying trampolines disrupt ...

Description Fighting to free herself from a toxic relationship, 21-year-old Lora escapes to her recently widowed grandmother's home in Hamburg. Whe...

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

Description Wish You Were Here will give tourists and travellers alike a description of each of the 50 destinations from around the world listed, w...

Descriptions In this collaboration between a Druid and a Witchcraft researcher, Jon G. Hughes and Sophie Gallagher describe in intricate detail the...