English books for adults

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...

Description An edited collection of essays, interviews, and book reviews by M. Wynn Thomas. For more than half a century, M. Wynn Thomas has been W...

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

Description A fresh start. The smog of the city in the rear view, and in front the green, green grass of Wales. That's the idea anyway. But by the ...

Description Philip Gross is a poet, librettist and writer for young people. A keen collaborator with other poets and across art forms, he has lived...

Description Definitive account of the cultural and political impact on Wales of the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley. The failure of the nation to b...

Description The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, trav...

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

Description The work of some of the most outstanding authors of the younger generation from Croatia, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia and Wales who partici...

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

Description Under Milk Wood tells the story of a Welsh village during one spring day. It is populated by some of the best-loved characters in Briti...

Description Growing up in a lonely house on the edge of a wild common, Violet Hart is a quiet and sheltered only child who has always dreamt of bec...

Description Collection of 43 essays vividly outlining aspects of Rhondda experience and contrasting life there as it used to be and as it is now. I...

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 A useful collection of Welsh words, phrases and idioms for (Northern) Welsh learners. Another little gem. 105 pages.  Details

ISBN: 9781845274559 Publication Date March 2013Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Format: Paperback, 210x148 mm, 112 pages Language: English...

Description In just one raised bed, greenfingered wunderkind Huw Richards shows you how to grow vegetables easily, organically, abundantly and inex...

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 View From The Summit - Poems by Tom Davies Tom was born in Welshpool, Powys, brought up during early childhood in the Powys village of ...

Description Jeremy Dixon's first full poetry collection starts from his teenage suicide attempt and expands to encompass themes of bullying, queerp...

Description Walking may seem a simple act. But it has a long history, much of it unnoticed. It has always carried a wide range of associations, in ...

Description An inspirational fictional telling of Welsh Victorian Strongwoman Kate Williams who is an important Welsh figure in challenging convent...

Description From the very beginnings of Wales, its people have defined themselves against their large neighbour. Wales - England's Colony? shows th...

Desription Full-colour road atlas of Wales, with extended coverage into England and including all the major routes into the country. The detailed r...

Description A mutual bond of rivalry and respect has existed between the rugby-loving Wales and New Zealand nations since their first match in 1905...