English books for adults

Description As the ultimate Rock 'n' Roll Poets, Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas represent two sides of the same coin. Bob Dylan made the music. Dylan T...

Description When a property developer, who has been seeking permission to build a large estate of exclusive homes near Wat's Dyke on the outskirts ...

Description Life-affirming autobiography of Karl Phillips, The Bootlegger, a social-media sensation with 320K followers for his humorous matchday v...

Description Featuring over 50 of the finest boxers from North, Mid and West Wales, including the first British boxer ever to win a medal at the wor...

Description In 1957 Marlon Brando married a young studio actress called Anna Kashfi. He was thirty-three and at the pinnacle of his fame. The weddi...

Description A novel set in a rural community in North Wales in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three siblings, all with hidden motivation, s...

Description Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change, a vital history of Wales as ...

Description This is the first study of the early years of one of Wales's most important cultural organisations – S4C. Through a detailed study of m...

Description Autobiography of Llanelli prop, Welsh Rugby Union Board and International Rugby Board member Anthony Buchanan. A behind-the-scenes look...

Description Sarah is starting again, alone. Hafod Farm gives her the chance for a new life, away from the pain of the past. Taken in by hardworking...

Description Heulwen Breeze-Evans, Plaid Cymru's candidate for the Assembly elections has been found dead in her Welshpool office, and Daf Davies fi...

Description Bilingual 2024 calendar with images of walks in Wales including Castell Coch, Aberystwyth, Beddgelert, Borth, Hay Bluff, Cwm Cywarch, S...

Description A colour-illustrated calendar for the year 2024, 297mm x 211mm size, depicting 12 beautiful views from Wales, together with short scrip...

Description This 35th volume in the Welsh Women's Classic series 'Cambrian Tales' appeared in serialized form in 'Ainsworth's Magazine' from March ...

Description A highly readable, in-depth analysis of the public life of Dame Margaret as wife of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. After a brief in...

Description Produced by Huw Alden Davies; Designed by award winning artist/curator Abby Poulson, Carnifal begins through the words of Dr. Paul Cabu...

Description The official autobiography of Carwyn Jones, former First Minister of Wales. This is a book about a life lived in and out of the public ...

Description Original crime shorts from Welsh women writers - debutantes and established - from 19th century Swansea docks to 21st century Turkey, m...

Description This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women’s movement in modern Wales. A panoramic sweep takes the reader on a jou...

 Description This collection of Celtic recipes from Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, the Isle of Man, Cornwall and Galicia covers a range of tra...

Description A short history of one of Ancient Britain's most enigmatic civilisations. The first in-depth history of the Celts in Britain, from one ...

Description A new and fully-updated centenary edition of Raymond Williams’s seminal collection of essays on nationhood and cultural identity, Who S...

Description In a colourful and frank account of a sterling career, Jamie Roberts reveals all about life on tour, in boot camps and in dressing room...

Description The story of a century of sport, celebrating the achievements of Swansea University students and alumni, set against the events of the ...

Description Before Charles became King, he was Prince of Wales. It was a role he took more seriously than any predecessor of the modern British mon...

Description The long-awaited autobiography of Welsh rugby legend 'Charlie' Faulkner. Immortalised in Max Boyce's 'The Pontypool Front Row', he was ...

Description Late 18th century Ireland. Two women from noble families, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, meet and form an intense romantic fri...

Description This book provides national governments and school communities with a model way of working to push back against child poverty, showcasi...

Description In this moving sequence of poems Nicola Davies's text combines with the superbly evocative illustrations of Petr Horácek to provide ins...

Description An anthology of poetry and prose, mainly celebratory, of the Welsh experience of Christmas as captured by various Welsh writers. First ...

Description A unique perspective on the 1984–85 UK Miners' Strike from a husband-and-wife team who reported on it in person at the time. Press phot...

Description Peter Finch has developed his particular poetics for fifty years. His blending of the avant-garde, concrete, visual, sound and more con...

Description Peter Finch has developed his particular poetics for fifty years. His blending of the avant-garde, concrete, visual, sound and more con...

Description Welsh experiences from both sides of the Falklands/Malvinas War. Translated for the first time, Ioan Roberts's vivid oral history recor...

Description Questions of humanity, of point of view, are at the heart of Fiona Sampson’s new collection, Come Down.Throughout, Sampson’s poems shim...

ISBN: 9781845242572 Publication Date February 2017Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Format: Paperback, 150x155 mm, 128 pages Language: Engli...