Welsh Europeans

John Osmond

Welsh Europeans takes a fresh look at the identity and future of Wales as a new century approaches. There is a gulf between the ability of the Welsh people to have any real say over how they are governed and the Quango-driven government they endure …

The Welsh Illusion

Patrick Hannan

Wales has changed almost beyond recognition in the last twenty years, yet many still cling to the romantic image of what it once was rather than cope with the reality of what it has become…

Welsh Journal

Jeremy Hooker

In ’Welsh Journal’ Jeremy Hooker recalls his life in the seventies when he was an English lecturer (in both senses) at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. Delighting in his closeness to nature, life in a cottage in rural Llangwyryfon is delineated in delicate, poetic prose ...

Welsh Retrospective

Dannie Abse

Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain’s most popular poets. Dannie Abse’s Welsh and Jewish backgrounds have been essential to his writings. Wales and Cardiff, in particular,...

Welsh Verse

Tony Conran

New edition. The tradition of Welsh poetry stretches back to the sixth century, making it among the oldest living literatures in Europe. In Welsh Verse Tony Conran translates a selection of work from fourteen centuries…

When Arthur Met Maggie

Patrick Hannan

Although their relationship was one of the most important in post-war public life, they never met. But for a year in the 1980s Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher were on opposite sides of a conflict that decided some of the most important questions in contemporary Britain…

A Whim Set in Concrete: The Campaign to Stop the Cardiff Bay Barrage.

Sian Best

Claimed to be the essential component for the regeneration of south Cardiff, the Cardiff Bay Barrage turned out to be one of the costliest - and to many, most unnecessary - civil engineering projects ever undertaken on the British coastline …

Who Stole a Bloater?

Frances Thomas

Meet the Vaughan family: Mamma, Dadda, Davy, his five sisters and baby brother Owen. They live in a small house in a Welsh Valley before the First World War. This charming book chronicles some of their adventures: Bessie’s hunger strike for the latest fashion; Owen’s sudden and mysterious disappearance; Davy’s trip to the colliery to see the pit ponies ...

Wild Blue

Frances Williams

The poems in Wild Blue are the product of a resltess and inventive intelligence. Capable of ruminating with grace and flair on such diverse personalities as Isaac Newton and Elvis Presley, Williams moves confidently between...

Wild Tracks

Trevor Fishlock

Published to accompany the third series of ’Wild Tracks’, HTV’s most successful programme, this book follows twelve of Fishlock’s walks in Wales. Not a guidebook so much as an itinerary of places of historical and cultural interest, Fishlock meets local characters and searches out the oddities of history in Wales ...