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Covering from earliest settlements to the present day, The Story of Wales explores a country constantly on the move and connected with the wider world, and a people who have reacted with energy and invention to changing times and opportunities.
An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water ‘Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.’ Roddy Doyle ‘Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.’ Times Literary Supplement
A paid assassin called Krink loads up on viper-spit to tackle some uber-thugs; the governor of a prison ship introduces his inmates to haute cuisine; a farmer wakes up after an avalanche in north Wales to find he's the last man alive. The stories in this zany new collection range freely, almost chaotically, from the taiga region of northern Russia to the depths of despair. They are fuelled by a high octane imagination and an uncommon zest for language. A thrilling collection from a stunningly original voice. A journey in stories through a fabulous and fascinating fictional new world.
A work of extraordinary vigour set in Buenos Aires, Oakland, California and Cardiff by a former BBC Wales Arts and Media correspondent.
Broadcaster, journalist and writer Jon Gower proves well-equipped to explore Llanelli and its culture in both languages in an entertaining book full of fresh insights and fascinating stories. From Burry Port to Trimsaran: it's all there.
A volume presenting stories about 13 Welsh heroes and heroic movements, both the well-known and the not so well-known: Betsi Cadwaladr, Dic Penderyn, Griffith Jones, Gwenllian (Princess of Wales), Hedd Wyn, Iolo Morganwg, Jemeima Niclas, Merched Beca, Owain Glyndŵr, Twm Si�n Cati, W. H. Davies, William Williams and the Chartists.
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A celebration of Wales's coastline in all its glory, published to coincide with the opening of the Wales Coast Path in 2012.
For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales Hiraeth is a Welsh word that's famously hard to translate. Literally, it can mean "long field" but generally translates into English, inadequately, as "homesickness." At heart, hiraeth suggests something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time—an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long Field, Pamela Petro braids essential hiraeth stories of Wales with tales from her own life—as an American who found an ancient home in Wales, as a gay woman, as the survivor of a terrible AMTRAK train crash, and as the ...
A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh emigration to Patagonia, a signal moment in the history of Wales and Argentina.