English books for adults

Description By any reasonable measurement, Love Actually is a bad movie. There are plenty of bad movies out there, but what gets under Gary Raymond...

Description Rich with visceral imagery, The Hungry and the Lost is a novel in true Southern Gothic style, pitting the worlds of myth and innocence ...

Description This unique memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and sexuality. In verse because it's how Bell remembers: snapsh...

Description I Am the Mask Maker and other stories brings together 11 of Rhiannon Lewis's compelling short stories. They transport us to places as v...

Description A memoir about grief, nature and what a small community in the Welsh valleys can teach us about life. 'A beautiful and poetic meditatio...

Description I Think We’re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new voice in British poetry. This was sup...

Description Full of tales of fighting clergymen, poisoned arrows and deathbed confessionals, James Stafford's An Illustrated History of Welsh Rugby...

Description Radical new poetry from rapper, spoken word artist and poet Duke Al Durham. Are you ready to remove the wool from your eyes? ‘Imagine...

Description This book is about the impact of Welsh devolution on public policy. It examines how, from a fragile beginning, distinct political insti...

Description On receiving news of a beloved teacher’s death, a man struggles with the loss of a relationship sustained by deep admiration and love. ...

Description The first detailed study of Thomas Rees' background and the part he played in the mid-19th century Rebecca Riots in west Wales. Events ...

Description In Service is the tale of one person's journey into manhood, ultimately finding himself in the theatre of war. Details ISBN: 9781803992...

Description By one of the most respected sports journalists in Wales, former Head of Sport at Media Wales Paul Abbandonato, this is a celebration o...

Description With rare experience in both primary and secondary phases and at leadership as well as classroom levels, Mark Creasy is ideally placed ...

Description Independent Wales gets to the heart of an issue which is sure to move to the forefront of the United Kingdom's agenda in the coming mon...

Description Cardiff-based poet Abeer Ameer writes of her forebears in her first collection, Inhale/Exile. Dedicated to the 'holders of these storie...

ISBN: 9781780370781 Publication Date May 2018Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., Tarset Format: Paperback, 216x138 mm, 80 pages Language: English Secon...

Description Faced with two murders, industrial espionage, a sexual predator, and a mining disaster, Thomas Chard must puzzle how these things fit t...

Description How Welsh bands and musicians soared up the music charts in the 1990s. The 1970s and ’80s were a bleak time for much of Wales: the clos...

  Description In 2005 Diana Ashworth and her husband spotted a dilapidated farmhouse with 25 acres in a rural hamlet in Montgomeryshire, the plan b...

Description Something was the matter with Ivor. It wasn't that he hadn't enough coal in his fire, he had plenty. It wasn't that he hadn't enough wa...

Description A novel set in a mining valley in south Wales during World War II. First friendships among a group of boys are seen from the perspectiv...

Description When Jan Morris passed away in 2020, she was considered one of Britain's best-loved writers. The author of Venice, Pax Britannica, Conu...

ISBN: 9781912631070 Publication Date June 2019Publisher: Y Lolfa, Tal-y-bont Format: Hardback, 242x160 mm, 384 pages Language: English Authorised b...

Description In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acce...

Description In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It is a story of journeys and realisation, of acc...

Description The foxes and their tricksy friends collect up all the sparks of joy and inspiration that flow out into the world as we dance, picnic, ...

Description In this bold, controversial book, Daryl Leeworthy takes a fresh, provocative look at the struggle through radical political action for ...

Description The sequel to the prizewinning novel Salt. Historical fiction based on the true-life experiences and struggles of Kean's own Jamaican g...

Description When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked...

Description Fascinating volume of history, shedding light on the lead mining industry in Ceredigion and shipping from Aberystwyth, through the stor...

Description In this collection of landscape images Nick Jenkins showcases the remote yet accessible attraction this ever-popular visitor location. ...

Description With a forensic eye, Howells takes us on a journey through ordinary human lives and the extraordinary natural world we are in danger of...