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 collection of over 60 folk tales by expert in the field Robin Gwyndaf. Includes the stories of Cantre'r Gwaelod (Ceredigion), Nant Gw...

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

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 Second volume in the series for general readership, explaining the history of the Welsh Marcher lordships and their unique features. Th...

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 A radical reinterpretation of the effect of excluding Welsh from schools on the fortunes of the language. Most people in Wales know tha...

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 Which Welsh woman led a double life as a pirate and smuggler? Which harpist and wrestler threw a man into a lake? Who led the first soc...

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 Gavin & Stacey’ is a TV series like no other. Now, for the first time, its creators James Corden and Ruth Jones tell the full extra...

Description A road trip through Wales and its rich history of folklore. Russ Williams was raised on Welsh stories, like the one about a mountain th...