W.H. Davies

Lawrence Normand


The story of W.H. Davies is one of the most remarkable in twentieth century letters. Born in lowly circumstances in Newport, he moved to America where he lived as a hobo – a life he recorded in Autobiography of a Super-Tramp ...

Waiting at the Water’s Edge

Lucinda Coxon

’Waiting at the Water’s’ Edge is a gripping new play by Lucinda Coxon. It opens with a chance meeting between two young girls, Vi and Su, on a North Wales beach. Their fates become entwined when they are both employed as servants in the same house ...

Wales at War: Critical Essays on Literature and Art

Tony Curtis

Great literature and art have been an unintended consequence of war. The writings and images of those caught up in conflict or reflecting on its experience are embedded in our national consciousness. Wales has played its part in British battles over the past century, and in Wales at War its finest critics consider how, amidst the turmoil and trauma, creativity has flourished …

“This is a well researched and thought provoking book.” – Brian Lee, The Gem, Jan 08

Wales Off Message

Patrick Hannan

From Ron Davies’s ’moment of madness ’ to the Lib-Lab pact the new Welsh Assembly has had fraught beginnings. Patrick Hannan scrutinises the sagas of Ron and Alun and Rhodri and Rod, placing them in the complicated context of the organisations and people who set the agenda of public life in Wales …

Wales Says Yes

Leighton Andrews

On 18 September 1997 the Welsh electorate voted for a National Assembly. The slender majority was an enormous turnaround from the outright rejection of 1979, a turnaround engineered by the Yes for Wales campaign, founded by Leighton Andrews …

Wales’s Best One Hundred Churches

T.J. Hughes


The churches of Wales are one of Britain’s great unheralded treasures, yet for many years there has been no book devoted to them and they await the kind of complete coverage given to churches elsewhere in Britain. Astonishingly, this is the first opportunity for a book on the subject to show them at their best in colour as well as words …

"T. J. Hughes’s brilliant Wales’s Best One Hundred Churches. Improbable as some people might find it, this is quite the most inspiring thing to have entered my brain via my eyes for some time …"

Taken from Tom Bullough´s blog - click HERE and scroll down to ´Rain and Churches´ to read more.

 

Wanting to Belong

Mike Jenkins

Helen’s in mourning because Liam has killed himself - she felt she really knew him. Gary is in trouble with the law after that episode with the car. Catherine and Gavin were due some fun...

War Voices

Tony Curtis

War and its effects have been an enduring subject throughout the twenty-five year writing career of Tony Curtis. The resulting poetry might have been bleak but for the sensitivity with which Curtis handles the theme,...

Welsh Airs

R.S. Thomas

Welsh Airs could be called R.S. Thomas’s book of nationalist poems. It brings together twenty-four poems from volumes long out of print such as Poetry for Supper, The Bread of Truth and Not That He...

The Welsh Book of the Dead

Douglas Houston

A wry, singular wit, an astringent honesty, and a virtuoso use of traditional forms characterise Douglas Houston’s new book. At its (broken) heart is the not-uncommon crisis of the break-up of a marriage. Houston spins...