The German Great Escape

Peter Phillips

On 10 March 1945, 80 German POWs escaped from the Island Farm Camp in Bridgend, south Wales. This is the story of the camp …

Hearst’s Other Castle

Enfys McMurray

A fascinating insight into the Hollywood lifestyle of a man whose desires knew no barriers and an extraordinary chapter in the life of an historic castle, this book is the story of William Randolph Hearst’s purchase in 1925 of St Donat’s Castle on the south Wales coast. Indulging his love of the mediaeval, he also provided an exotic house for Marion Davies, his film star companion …

Letters from Wales

Joan Abse (ed.)

Ranging over eight centuries of life in Wales, this fascinating anthology of private and public correspondence, journals and diary entries provides an enthralling commentary on the country’s development …

Lime, Lemon and Sarsaparilla: The Italian Community in South Wales, 1881-1945

Colin Hughes

’Lime, Lemon and Sarsaparilla’ is a wonderful evocation of Italian life in south Wales from the turn of the century to the post-war years, when the Italian café was central to the social life of many small communities in the valleys …

 

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.