John Harris has written the definitive biography of Evans. He investigates what lay behind the writing, and its impact on Wales and beyond. Evans is also revealed as a polemicist …
Paperback, 288pp, illus Birlinn, 2020 Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in …
Lady Anne’s position as the wife of Charles Guthrie gives her a unique (but limited) perspective on the relationship between her husband’s stepbrother Cecil and the attractive but dominating Lady …
This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings-the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. …
Christie Malry is a simple man. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London he learns the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping. Frustrated by the petty injustices that …
When Emily Dickinson was asked if she had read Elizabeth Prescott Spofford’s work, she replied, “I read Miss Prescott’s Circumstance, but it followed me in the Dark—so I avoided her;” …
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Starling knows a chemist called Roper, who knows a painter called Jourbert, who knows a man in Mexico who works for the government. Mescal has always had its routes into …
At the heart of Country Dance is Ann Goodman, a young woman torn by ‘the struggle for supremacy in her mixed blood’, Welsh and English. In this story of passion …
Paperback, 80pp Faber, 2007 Crocodiles and obelisks are ancient symbols of empire. The poems in Jamie McKendrick’s astonishing new collection sift the debris of power and range from Mussolini’s Italy …
The first of Lewis Jones’ two epic industrial novels of the 1930s. Big Jim, collier and ex-Boer War soldier, and his partner Siân endure the impact of strikes, riots and …
At the heart of Dai Country – the central valleys of twentieth-century South Wales from the 1930s to the 1970s – was the metropolis of Pontypridd, and it is from …
When Thomas Barnardo arrived in East London in 1866, his plan was to train at the London Hospital before sailing to China to work as a missionary. The conditions he …
This collection of two creative classic travel books is edited by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and Kathryn Hughes. Dringo’r Andes tells of a journey across country from the Welsh Settlement to the Andes; Gwymon y Môr of …
In 1934, J. B. Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, to Norwich and home. In …
Edith Wharton started to write this book in Paris and in French a decade before it was published in 1911. It is set in the mountains of New England, where …
Barbara Morant spent a crucial part of her childhood in the unremarkable suburban house which lends this novel its name. For her siblings, it’s merely a place to live; for …
Paperback, 192pp Faber, 2004 Italy has produced some of the most inventive and controversial poetry of the past one hundred years. In this new anthology, all the major Italian poets …
Flame and Slag is Ron Berry’s masterpiece. Set against the unspeakable horror of Aberfan, this remarkable 1968 novel follows the lives of lovers, Rees Stevens and Ellen Vaughan. Rees must …