Biography
46 Books in biographyMartha Jane and Me
Mavis NicholsonToday, television interviewer Mavis Nicholson regularly rubs shoulders with the famous.As a girl in south Wales in the thirties and forties, she dreaded her friends finding out how closely she rubbed shoulders with Martha Jane, the grandmother whose large feather bed she had to share until she left home.
"Mavis Nicholson's warm heart and fierce intelligence are stamped on every page… A delightful book.” – Sue Townsend
Mavis was a guest on the Paul O'Grady show on Wednesday 22nd May, 5pm on Channel 4 - if you missed it, you can watch it again on Channel 4 'on demand' - tune in!
Alun Lewis: A Life
John PikoulisAlun Lewis (1915-1944) is one of the most impressive and important writers of the century. The leading author of World War Two, perhaps the leading poet, he is still an influential figure, particularly in his native Wales ...
Alun Lewis: Letters to my Wife
Gweno LewisAlun Lewis (1915-1944) was one of the few great British writers of the Second World War. His early death at the age of twenty-eight robbed Wales of its most promising poet and story writer …
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Arthur Machen
Mark ValentineArthur Conan Doyle called Machen a genius; Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and H.G. Wells admired him. His classic horror novel The Great God Pan, which both shocked and delighted contemporary readers with it’s dark portrayal of sexuality and it’s alluring villainess, has been favourably compared to Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ...
Blue Sky July
Nia WynBook of the Month on BBC Radio 5 for October 2007
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Radio 4 Book of the Week; Featured in the Daily Mail and The Guardian; WH Smith’s ’Book of the Month’ in Wales for October 2007.
“This is an astonishing book…she has succeeded brilliantly, and in the process brought us a wonderful story, beautifully told, about an astonishing little boy and his amazing mother.” – Rosita Sweetman, Sunday Independent, Jan 08
“This book, which one almost hesitates to call a novel, is a tribute to the power of maternal love and the indomitable spirit of a small boy and his mother. Despite the tragedy of its subject matter it is a novel of optimism and hope.” – Gillian Rowlands, Cambria, April 08
“It’s the strangest time – a birth – for life to start falling apart”
Set between the summers of 1998 and 2005 in Cardiff, Blue Sky July follows the story of a mother whose child suffers a devastating brain injury. It traces her journey into a world hidden away in society’s pockets as she battles against impossible odds to heal him…
This book will challenge your heart and change your views.
There is a huge media buzz surrounding Blue Sky July at the moment; it has been featured in The Guardian, Daily Mail, Western Mail, South Wales Echo, Wales on Sunday, Good Housekeeping, Wedi 3, BBC Wales Today and BBC website. There will be more press coverage to come, so keep checking the website for updates…
Listen again to the BBC World Service interview with Nia by clicking here
"A heartbreaking tour-de-force that is taking the literary world by storm." The Daily Mail
Clough Williams Ellis
Jonah JonesThe architect Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978) is probably best known as the creator of Portmeirion, the Italianate village known as ’the Xanadu of Wales’ and the setting of the cult television series, The Prisoner ...
Dennis Potter
Peter SteadDennis Potter is the most gifted and influential playwright in television history. Millions of people have been fascinated by his novels, plays, adaptations and films. Brilliant Oxford student, journalist, an early television critic, a failed parliamentary candidate, Potter belongs to that generation of the working-class which rose to prominence in the media during the sixties ...
Dylan Remembered - Volume 1 : 1913 - 1934
David N. Thomas’Dylan Remembered: 1913 - 1934’ is the first of two volumes culled from the archive tapes of journalist, broadcaster and author Colin Edwards. Edwards, a California-resident Welshman, had interviewed everyone he could find with a Dylan Thomas connection ...
Dylan Remembered - Volume Two: 1935 - 1953
David N. ThomasThis second volume culled from the Colin Edwards Archive of interviews with Dylan Thomas’ family, friends and colleagues made during the 1960s covers Thomas’ ‘adult’ life from his move, aged 20, to London to become a professional writer to his death in New York 51 years ago…
