English books for adults

Description In this unique book, one of football’s greatest cult players reflects on the travails of the sport and draws upon his own experience to...

Description Character-driven working-class tragicomedy set in Wales, with an underlying theme of loss. Widowed ex-miner Johnny finds coal on his al...

Description Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the...

Description From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...

ISBN: 9781781257937 Publication Date May 2019Publisher: Profile Books, London Format: Paperback, 198x129 mm, 312 pages Language: English   See the ...

A handy booklet comprising a useful guide to stunning walks to 26 waterfalls and their environs in Mid and North Wales, with clear directions, blac...

Description A guide to walking routes to the summit of Yr Wyddfa in Eryri (Snowdonia). Alongside the summit routes, there are also easier alternati...

Description Cycling fans obsess about climbs and big mountains. They love reading about their tests and tribulations and they love to ride them - a...

Description Mr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the first biography of Gareth Jones and reveals the remarkable yet tragically short life of th...

Description When Mr Collins is found murdered in Lady Catherine de Bourgh’s garden, simmering tensions are revealed beneath the elegant Regency sur...

Description In the majestic mountains of North Wales, retired MI5 agent Huw Cecil is reluctantly drawn back into a world of espionage and murder. W...

Description Memoir of Wrexham's star player, Paul Mullin - as seen in 'Welcome to Wrexham', a Disney+ documentary series by Ryan Reynolds and Rob M...

Description Horatio Clare re-tells six myths and legends of Wales’ celebrated regions of Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd, including Carew Castle, Pembrok...

Description Poetry that takes a deep-dive into the human relationship with trees and how trees have shaped folklore and literature. Sparked by an o...

Description The history of the Welsh love of hymn singing, and of how hymns and the religious movements and revivals of which they were part fired ...

Description Take an intimate journey with award-winning wildlife photographer Drew Buckley as he observes the trials and joys of the Atlantic Puffi...

Description WINNER OF THE 2024 RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON CONSERVATION A T...

Description 'A BIG-HEARTED STORY ABOUT FINDING YOUR FEET AND FOLLOWING YOUR HEART' SARAH WATERS 'JOYFULLY QUEER, FILTHY AND FUN' CHLOE TIMMS 'A HUG...

Description Female-led literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times...

Description The story of the second half of Nigel's career as one of the most famous referees in World Rugby and one of only two Welsh referees eve...

Description A striking memoir that travels through a traumatic childhood with an abusive mother. In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the i...

Description Essential reading for all Welsh rugby supporters, Matthew Southcombe tells the story of Wales' 2019 Rugby World Cup campaign, recalls t...

Description Nonconformist is about discovering Welsh roots, exploring the language and culture of the contemporary Cymru. It is the true story of J...

Description North Wales is home to hundreds of artisan food and drink heroes whose award-winning produce is helping to make it one of the most exci...

Description This book is the next, natural step in Martin's wanderings around England and Wales. If Take The Slow Road whetted the appetite for a G...

Description A boy running around a running track in the early evening opens a memoir of candour and insight. From a working-class Rhondda childhood...

Description Bridges have always been required to ease the passage of people and goods from the earliest of times. In this book are described steppi...

Description 2019: Following her father's death, Carole decides to use her inheritance to buy a remote traditional cottage outside the village in mi...

Description This book is designed to support poor readers by giving them overtly adult material but where the language has been calculated using a ...

Description The author’s memoirs of growing up on the Llŷn Peninsula in the 1950s and 1960s, bookended by memories from other members of the Pwllhe...

Details ISBN: 9781785151934 Publication Date June 2019Publisher: William Heinemann, London Author: Mike Parker Format: Hardback, 222x138 mm, 400 pa...

Description On The Red Hill celebrates the ebb and flow of seasons, of ever-changing landscapes, and the family (both beloved and infuriating) that...

Description Philip Hume's book provides a richly-illustrated history of the medieval Mortimer family of Wigmore in north Herefordshire, with a focu...

Description New Edition. Visiting home after travelling in Europe, a routine trip to the doctor left 31 year old Ursula with an Ovarian cancer diag...

Description Listen. The bee walks across my finger, slow as anything and I can see through the gauzy wing, to the detail of my skin. You aren't loo...

Description It was a period of Welsh politics that has become etched in the collective memory. The rise of a Welsh independence movement and the fi...

Description The history of Wales as a destination and confection of English Romantic writers is well-known, but this book reverses the process, tur...

ISBN: 9780008336578Publication Date September 2019Publisher: HarperCollins, CheltenhamFormat: Hardback, 242x160 mm, 398 pagesLanguage: English Open...

Description A rabbit hole of alternate history, strategy and subterfuge, Operation Auger is a taut and twisting World War II thriller. Details

Description Recklessly honest, and as funny as it is grave, Original Sins is an extraordinary memoir of faith, family, shame and addiction. But ul...

Description The only truly semi-aquatic member of the weasel family, otters were once a common sight in UK rivers and lakes, but now less so. Throu...

Description In Painting the Beauty Queens Orange, the women who lived the decade reveal what it meant to push boundaries, claim your identity, and ...

Description If, like so many others, you enjoyed Parsnips and Owls and are ready for more of a challenge, you're going to love Parsnips and Owls 2!...

Description If, like so many others, you enjoyed Parsnips and Owls 1 and 2 and are ready for more of a challenge, you'll want to get your teeth rig...

Description Are you just like over a million other Welsh learners who've used Duolingo to learn the language?Have you completed the course and are ...

Description A bitterly intelligent and gruesomely funny journey through the worlds of work, sex and rugby. Lewis Davies ruthlessly dissects a passi...

Description This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble or...

Description A new edition of The Peacemakers, which includes some of Waldo Williams' most celebrated poems. It comprises the Welsh-language origina...