English books for adults

Description Visual culture has long been a vital component in the creation and dissemination of this prevalent national brand. The Art of Music des...

Description Arthur Gould is a definitive biography of a record-breaking Welsh international player widely acknowledged as the first superstar of ru...

Description The power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through As if to Sing. Full of poems about family, the poet's relationship wi...

Description A multi-generational historical drama, full of mystery and deeply-wrought circumstances. Details ISBN: 9781912905966 Publication Date...

Description A very useful Welsh grammar pocket book based on the highly successful Welsh Learners website of the same name, comprising a guide for ...

Desription Rhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim, and the f...

Description Brilliant, honest and combative, his autobiography, written with Tom Fordyce, is the story of one of the most compelling and singular f...

Description Brilliant, honest and combative, Alun Wyn Jones's signed autobiography, written with Tom Fordyce, is the story of one of the most compe...

Description A fascinating work of social history which places the life and career of John Squire, a very influential figure in the musical life of ...

Description A novel centred on a headstrong working-class girl in 18th-century north Wales. Peggin is a maid to the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, ...

Description A few moments before eight o'clock on the morning of 4th April, 1862, Richard Rowlands, or Dic Rolant as he was called, husband, father...

Description Jeffrey Weeks was born in the Rhondda in 1945, of mining stock. As he grew up he increasingly felt an outsider in the intensely communi...

Description In pursuit of moments of feeling 'sharply alive', confronting fear of the body's betrayals, and roaming across Wales, Scotland, Califor...

Description A century after a disaster floods a quarry in North Wales, a young woman inherits a house nearby. A weekend with her boyfriend in her d...

Description Dylan was six when The End came, back in 2018; when the electricity went off for good, and the 'normal' 21st-century world he knew disa...

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 After Brutal London and Brutal North, a major new title in Simon Phipps' Brutal book series – the first ever photographic survey of mod...