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

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 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

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

A Rope of Vines

Brenda Chamberlain

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A beautiful and personal account, this memoir recalls the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960s. Sea and har... 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

Make Room for the Jester

Stead Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Sometimes compared to The Catcher in the Rye , this rediscovered novel of the 1960s has a similar haunting sense that the adult world is phony and thr... Lees meer

A Time to Laugh

Rhys Davies

• Paperback | Library of Wales
• The second novel in the Rhondda Trilogy - 'the most sustained literary examination of Welsh industrial history ever published and certainly the least ... 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

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

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

Goodbye Twentieth Century

Dannie Abse

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales | nr. 32
• Drawing upon his Welsh and Jewish heritage, Dannie Abse presents a rich autobiography that chronicles his life as both a doctor and an author. Humorou... 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

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

Cwmardy

Lewis Jones

• Paperback | Library of Wales
• Cwmardy 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

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

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

Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Examining Wales' sporting identity, this collection includes essays by Richard Burton, Dylan Thomas, Dannie Abse, Richard Llewellyn, Carolyn Hitt, Les... Lees meer