Gwledd y Gaeaf 2024 Winter Reads

Description Poet and illustrator Siôn Tomos Owen's book is full of colour and passion about life as a father and patriot from Rhondda Valley, and d...

Description Mattie's life has been made more difficult recently by her mother's latest boyfriend, Sargent, a minor local drug lord. As the reality ...

Description "I don't believe in the big bad mouse..." One night, the Gruffalo's child wanders into the woods to search for the Big Bad Mouse. Inste...

Description A thorough analysis of the Plaid Cymru Party of Wales. This is the first book to discuss the development of the political thought of Pl...

Description A study of the Rebecca movement's fight against high taxation and poverty in nineteenth-century Wales. In nineteenth-century Wales, a p...

Description A companion volume to rhwng y llinellau (Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2013) which was Christine James's first volume of poetry. Once again, ar...

Description The autobiography of a Welsh music icon who has produced some of the best Welsh records of all time. The book concentrates on his caree...

Description The second volume in a beautiful series presenting new collections of poems by great craftsmen of the past. This volume comprises poems...

Description Join Cadi and Jac for lots of Christmas activity fun. This wipe-clean book is a perfect way for young children to develop their observa...

Description This beautiful gift volume is the fruit of a popular S4C series which began during the Covid days, with colour photographs, snippets of...

Description Set in the wake of World War II, this gripping tale of rural Welsh life has themes that still resonate today, its vivid young protagoni...

Description Début poetry from an outspoken new talent. Slingshot is the début poetry collection from Andrew Ogun, exploring the tension between whe...

Description STAR lights up Christmas. We journey through the collection as 'everyday Magi', encountering revelations, surprises and new insights. A...

Description This book about rugby in the professional era looks at important games, and at the main characters and stories that have influenced the...

Description Detective Bedwyr Campell has to take a step into the past when a precious picture is discovered – the portrait of a young girl being bu...

Description It's night-time at the supermarket and the vegetables are about to have a great shock! Supertaten has turned nasty! If Supertaten is no...

Description An overview of Swansea's experience during World War II, set out in a single volume for the first time. The port and industries of Swan...

Description Grief faces all of us in the end. This collection explores how poets have expressed and attempted to come to some kind of understanding...

Description The Book of Being Chimp is Adrian Cale's entertaining celebration of the chimpanzee. Written with fact-filled, often witty reverence an...

Description Novel set in 1930s London and Wales against the background of approaching war and the fight against Fascism in Spain. Historical romant...

Description A study of the creation of the historic county of Denbighshire in Wales.  The lordship of Denbigh, held by prominent English barons fol...

Description The Lucy Wilson Mysteries is a Lethbridge-Stewart spin-off adventure and features licensed characters created for Doctor Who by Mervyn ...

Description A study of influential British Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan as a political thinker. Despite his contemporary legacy as an inst...

Description Nell Dart has been kicked out of school and onto a bus, taking her to the middle of actual nowhere (Wales). Find out what happens to h...

Description A critical contextualizing of the early work of modernist painter Ceri Richards. This study assesses Ceri Richards’s early art and care...

Description Novella set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic Wales a few years into the future. Aeronwy, a very ordinary middle-aged woman, finds herse...

Description A gripping 'cuckoo in the nest' domestic thriller, exploring how coercive control can tear a family apart. Set in Yorkshire and Cardiff...

Description ‘A remarkable and important book’ – Murdo Macdonald, Planet Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Re...

Description What the fascinating life of Edward Vaughan reveals about the politics of early modern England and Wales. This book tells the remarkabl...

Description The Gwent Levels line the north shore of the Severn in South Wales: Cas Gwent (Chepstow) at its head; its more famous cousin, the Somer...

Description In 1966, 13 year old Veronica Groves disappeared on Borth fair night. In 1989, her twin Vince arrives home in Anglesey after a period w...

Description A unique rom-com novel that deals with the complications that develop as a young couple separate and try to raise children. This fictio...

Description Wales in 100 Objects is a beautiful volume to treasure, presenting what the author considers the 100 most important physical objects in...

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 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 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...

Description Exciting new author, Rebecca Wilson, has created a 'Lord of the Rings' for a younger audience. The Winter Festival is celebrated by all...

Description Wonderboy and The Life & Times of Drewford Alabama is a semi-autobiographical novel by drummer and musician Jamie Morrison. Andrew ...

Description A Christmassy title where decorations are counted before placing them on the best Christmas tree ever! Details

Description Introducing 100 words in Welsh and English with Eric Carle's classic art. Learning is fun with The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Details

Description Nell Dart has succeeded in failing at school, in life and love. With nothing more to lose, she is sent to the ‘last chance saloon', i.e...

Description An honest and deeply personal anthology collecting real-life stories from 14 young LGBTQ+ contributors. Edited by award-winning authors...

Description A book in rhyme about the frightful monsters of Wales – the Tail-less Black Sow, the Witches of Llanddona, the Monster of Llyn Tegid an...

Description Nine-year-old Jac sees his father as a hero, but when Jac joins a local football team with his best friend Zac, things start to get a b...

Description Nine-year-old Jac sees his father as a hero, but when Jac joins a local football team with his best friend Zac, things start to get a b...