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Description Biography of Jan Morris comprising photographs and stories, together with ten tributes by writers and friends. Details ISBN: 9781845277...
View full detailsDescription When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked...
View full detailsDescription It was appropriate to begin this musical pilgrimage in Pwllheli, and to draw it to a close only a few miles from the town. Leila Megàne...
View full detailsISBN: 9781845276935 Publication Date July 2019Publisher: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, Llanrwst Format: Paperback, 210x148 mm, 136 pages Language: Welsh ...
View full detailsDescription This is the story of a unique habitat that has been so ravaged, most people today don’t realise it exists. Temperate rainforest may onc...
View full detailsDescription The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones' experience of defending Rhyl serial killer Peter Moore, found guilty...
View full detailsDescription The first study of the pioneer of open-air museums in Britain, putting his work as scholar and curator into the international context o...
View full detailsDescription On Christmas Eve, Mari takes mince pies to Mrs Cloch - a lonely old lady who has no visitors. Mari helps her to decorate the Christmas ...
View full detailsDescription Hardback book with ribbon which has been numbered. Comprising over 104 images. A volume of appreciation for the life and work of eminen...
View full detailsDescription The story of the female singers who were part of Wales's 60s and 70s pop scene (with 2 CDs). Details ISBN: 9781910594735 Publication ...
View full detailsDescription Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the...
View full detailsDescription From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...
View full detailsDescription Mr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the first biography of Gareth Jones and reveals the remarkable yet tragically short life of th...
View full detailsDescription The letters of T E Nicholas (Niclas y Glais) to Evan Roberts and Awena Rhun, together with his journalistic essays, provide us with a p...
View full detailsDescription Owen Morgan Edwards, from Llanuwchllyn in Gwynedd, was a politician, scholar, writer and publisher of magazines. He is well-known for p...
View full detailsDescription The author’s memoirs of growing up on the Llŷn Peninsula in the 1950s and 1960s, bookended by memories from other members of the Pwllhe...
View full detailsDescription A foretaste of a larger publication which will feature 27 Welsh bards, this volume presents interview portraits of three bards who are ...
View full detailsDescription A volume tracing the experiences of T. H. Parry-Williams as a conscientious objector during the Great War when he was persecuted for hi...
View full detailsDescription Biography of well-known character, Goronwy Evans, who has served as a minister for fifty years, and who is one of Lampeter's unique cha...
View full detailsDescription When he was a child, Alwyn Harding Jones discovered a book in his grandfather's handwriting recording the diary of Captain John Hughes,...
View full detailsDescription The revealing autobiography of Anglesey actress and presenter, Marged Esli who has enjoyed a long and varied career. She has always bel...
View full detailsDescription The first full-length biography of Edward Lhwyd, this is an important contribution to the history of science in the fields of botany, p...
View full detailsDescription Farming methods are often viewed as harmful to nature and the environment, causing friction between those wanting to protect wildlife a...
View full detailsDescription A biography and appraisal of the poems of Siôn Powel Wehydd - an eighteenth century weaver and poet from the Hiraethog area. Details IS...
View full detailsDescription From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril La...
View full detailsDescription The astonishing story of Henry Coombe-Tennant (1913-89), who served in the British Army in World War II, escaping from a POW camp, join...
View full detailsDescription The autobiography of Cefin Roberts is published by Gwasg y Bwthyn as he prepares to celebrate his 70th birthday in October 2023. A high...
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