Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Manisions and a Bungalow

David N. Thomas

Drawing on new research and interviews with people who knew Dylan Thomas during his stay in Cardiganshire, David Thomas has uncovered exciting new material which will surprise Dylan fans and scholars alike....

The Dymock Poets

Sean Street

Shortly before the First World War a group of poets gathered in the small village of Dymock, in rural Gloucestershire, forming an interacting colony of talent. Their number included Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson, Robert Frost, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Edward Thomas and Eleanor Farjeon ...

Edward Elgar: Sacred Music

John Allison


Edward Elgar was for many years the most popular composer in Britain; his music was, and remains, inextricably linked with the final, glorious years of the Empire. Yet Elgar himself was almost entirely untypical of the British Establishment ...

Eric Gill & David Jones at Capel-y-Ffin

Jonathan Miles


This is the first book dedicated to the four year collaboration between two major British artists, Eric Gill and David Jones, at Gill’s artistic-religious community at Capel-y-Ffin, a remote disused monastery in the Black Mountains....

Francis Brett Young

Michael Hall


Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) was one of the most prolific and successful authors of his era. His thirty novels and four collections of stories were published in more than two hundred editions and eleven languages,...

Francis Kilvert

David Lockwood


Kilvert’s diaries are famous throughout the world. They are acclaimed for quality of the diaryist’s response to Victorian society and his passionate love of the natural world. Life in his two homes, near Chippenham and on the Radnor-Hereford border (now known as ’Kilvert Country’) shines through his writing ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Norman White


The three years Gerard Manley Hopkins spent at the Jesuit college at St. Beuno’s in the vale of Clwyd were the most important of his authorial life - perhaps his whole life. He wrote for the first time in seven years - including his classic sonnets - and St Beuno’s was his literary testing ground ...

Henry Vaughan

There is no portrait of Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95), and little documentation of his life. However, at the tercentenary of his death his writing remains as influential as ever and the writer continues to fascinate ...