Redesigning Democracy: The Making of the Welsh Assembly

Kevin Morgan , Geoff Mungham

Redesigning Democracy weaves together two important political stories. The first charts the long and often divisive campaign for a Welsh Assembly. The second tells the previously untold story of the devolution battle inside the Labour Party, from the ignominy of the 1979 referendum to the forced resignation of Alun Michael …

Related Twilights: Notes from an Artist’s Diary

Josef Herman

The distinguished painter Josef Herman left his native Warsaw shortly before the war. He lived and worked in many places since, and his friends numbered many well-known artists. In Related Twilights the same qualities of...

Remembering Carmen

Nicholas Murray

Nicholas Murray’s second novel is an elegant dissection of modern romantic mores. Christopher, a successful shopfitter specialising in transforming dilapidated London buildings into swanky bistros, is romantically involved with Carmen, a one-time academic now unhappily employed as a magazine-columnist ...

Resolution

Roger Granelli

Roger Granelli’s fifth novel is a subtle and compelling examination of human motives and desires. It is the start of the new millennium, and Rob and Cath’s fiery relationship begins to unravel. The split sends Rob - artist, musician, dreamer - into a nightmare of paranoia and resenment, while Cath’s resolve is threatened by fear, and by loyalty to the man she once loved …

Return / Yn Ôl

Rhodri Jones

Born in Gwynedd, his father Welsh, his mother from Luxembourg,
Rhodri Jones grew up speaking Welsh, English and German. For the past two decades he has travelled widely in Central America, Europe, Africa and the Far East, building up an astounding photographic portfolio with images ranging from the mountains of Albania to the cities and deserts of China. Now based in Italy, he has turned his attention – and his lens – to his country of origin ...

Richard Burton: So Much, So Little

Peter Stead

The story of Richard Burton’s life is well known: from son of a Welsh miner and ward of a local teacher to international superstar. He became as famous for being Richard Burton and husband of Elizabeth Taylor as for the extraordinary acting abilities which made his name ...

Richard Hughes: Novelist

Richard Poole

Richard Hughes (1900-76) is probably best known for his remarkable bestseller about childhood, A High Wind in Jamaica (1929), now recognised as a modern classic ...

A Ride Through The Wood: Essays on Anglo-Welsh Literature

Roland Mathias

In collecting these essays Roland Mathias uses for his subjects the symbol of a wood, virtually unexplored, and until recently considered to be on the edge of a map of English literature …

The River Wye

Barry Needle

’The River Wye’ is a sumptuous record of an important and beautiful landscape. In breathtaking colour photographs, Barry Needle captures the essence of the river, from its source high in the mountains of mid-Wales to its entry in to the sea under the towering Severn suspension bridge.