Border Country

Raymond Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr.... Lees meer

The Battle to the Weak

Hilda Vaughan

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A forgotten Welsh novel, first published in 1925, this love story is also a portrait of class conflict and the plight of rural women. The plot turns o... Lees meer

Jampot Smith

Jeremy Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Chronicling the lives of a group of friends, this novel paints a portrait of those edging towards adulthood in the sunshine and shadow of Llandudno du... Lees meer

The Valley, the City, the Village

Glyn Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A rich depiction of the conflicting cultural, social, and political values in Wales in the 1900s, this powerful and exceptional narrative follows Trys... Lees meer

In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl

Rachel Trezise

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• This is the debut novel from Rachel Trezise, winner of the Orange Futures Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Rebecca is trying to grow up fast but the ... Lees meer

Black Parade

Jack Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A riotous, unsentimental picture of life in a small Wales town, this portrait of a working-class woman of the Victorian era explores the hardships and... Lees meer

Funderland

Nigel Jarrett

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Plunging below the surface to confront the strange, the shocking, and often the unspeakable, this debut short story collection interrogates themes of ... Lees meer

The Heyday in the Blood

Geraint Goodwin

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• The village of Tanygraig on the Welsh-English border is the backdrop of this passionate novel of love and its consequences. Beti, the beautiful and wi... Lees meer

Carwyn

Alun Richards

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Carwyn James treated rugby football as if it was an art form and aesthetics part of the coaching manual. He was the first man to coach any British Lio... Lees meer

In the Green Tree

Alun Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Through his letters home and six short stories, Alun Lewis paints a vibrant picture of life in India as a British serviceman during World War II. Inti... Lees meer

We Live

Lewis Jones

• Paperback | Library of Wales
• We Live paints a graphic portrait of the casual exploitation, tragedy and violence as well as the political hope and humanity of South Wales industria... Lees meer

Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve

Dannie Abse

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiograph... Lees meer

Ride the White Stallion

William Glynne-Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Ride the White Stallion is the sequel to Farewell Innocence, charting the trials and travails of Ieuan Morgan at the foundry and in his family life. I... Lees meer

The Water-Castle

Brenda Chamberlain

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A new edition of a classic originally published in 1964, this is a journal of love, romance, and discord in 1950s postwar Germany. As Welsh artist and... Lees meer

The Great God Pan/The Shining Pyramid/The White People

Arthur Machen

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A sensation when first published in 1894, this frightening story involves evil scientists and the women that become monsters at their hands. An experi... Lees meer

I Sent a Letter to My Love

Bernice Rubens

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Amy Evans retained all her life the squat nose of her childhood, stubbed on to her face like a plasticine afterthought, a chin too long for any practi... Lees meer

The Voices of the Children

George Ewart Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A delicate and heartfelt story of the golden, ephemeral, uncertain world of childhood, this novel--set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the... Lees meer

Young Emma

William Henry Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• At the age of fifty, towards the end of the First World War, W. H. Davies decided that he must marry. Spurning London society and the literary circles... Lees meer

The Volunteers

Raymond Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• During the miners' strike in the 1980s, a worker is killed in the striking coalfields of Wales. Some months later, a government minister thought to be... Lees meer

Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Creating a vibrant expression of the industrial, pastoral, rural, urban, religious, political and linguistic experience of Wales in the 20th-century w... Lees meer

The Hill of Dreams

Arthur Machen

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Lucian Taylor believes he has been damned through contact with an erotically pagan world--or possibly through something degenerate in his own nature--... Lees meer

All Things Betray Thee

Gwyn Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Capturing the turbulent world of South Wales during the 1830s, this novel tells the story of a traveling harpist who becomes caught up in a fierce ind... Lees meer

Shifts

Christopher Meredith

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Funny, lyrical and poignant, Shifts is a novel of the decline of industry and of the south Wales working class in the 1970s. It broke new ground on it... Lees meer

Congratulate the Devil

Howell Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Mescal had always had its routes into the world, as this novel's complex relationships show: Starling knows a chemist named Roper, who knows a painter... Lees meer