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Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys by Jeffrey Weeks 9781914595097
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.54Jeffrey Weeks has been called 'the 'most significant British intellectual working on sexuality to emerge from the radical sexual movements of the 1970s'. Yet behind the titles and acclaim lies the... -
The Welsh Way: Essays on Neoliberalism and Devolution by Daniel Evans 9781914595028
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Neoliberalism has firmly taken hold in Wales. The 'clear red water' is darkening. The wounds of poverty, inequality, and disengagement, far from being healed, have worsened. Child poverty has... -
Dream of a Journey: Selected Poems Katerina Rudcenkova 9781913640545
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Edited and Translated by Alexandra Buchler. A book of poems by Katerina Rudcenkova selected from her four poetry books by the editor / translator Alexandra Buchler who will also write an... -
Riverwise: Meditations on Afon Teifi by Jack Smylie Wild 9781913640392
Booksplease Price: £13.43Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around Afon Teifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings and enchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir, poetry and keen... -
The Fig and the Flute Player by Christine Harrison 9781909844872
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48We throw away years of life. We walk in mist. Then unexpectedly something shifts, subtly, hardly at all, and everything is changed. It was like that - When Maisie Shergold, art historian, meets... -
Last Day, The by Owain Owain 9781914595806
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.55A science fiction cult classic. The Last Day is more than a moving call to arms for speakers of minority languages facing extinction; at its core, it's a tragic human-scale story played out... -
Smooth Operator: The life and times of Cyril Lakin, editor, broadcaster and politician Geoff Andrews 9781913640187
Booksplease Price: £26.97From a humble background in Barry, where his father was a butcher and local politician in the formative years of the new town, Cyril Lakin studied at Oxford, survived the First World War, and went... -
Earwitness: A Search for Sonic Understanding in Stories Ed Garland 9781917140089
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.38In his twenties, Ed Garland came close to suicide but later discovered reading to help him cope with hearing loss and tinnitus. In this unique blend of memoir and literary criticism, right at the... -
The Element of Water by Stevie Davies 9781912681150
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05It is 1958: Isolde Dahl is a young teacher who goes to work in a British school on the shores of Lake Ploen in north-west Germany. She is returning to a country she fled as a child refugee with her... -
Three Great Canadian Short Stories Tyler Keevil 9781917140768
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11'Up Here' by Tristan Hughes won the O M Henry award.'Seal Skin' by Tyler Keevil, Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Journey Prize.'Flamingos' by Gail Hughes.Art designed and illustrated by Catrin... -
Unspeakable Beauty Georgia Carys Williams 9781913830465
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.43Growing up in a lonely house on the edge of a wild common, Violet Hart is a quiet and sheltered only child who has always dreamt of becoming something extraordinary: a ballet icon as famous as Margot... -
At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral Peter J Conradi 9781913830687
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Radnorshire, a county rural and remote. The lives of its sparse population continue to be shaped by the wild landscape of valleys and mountains in ways that for Britain now lie in the past. Yet down... -
Brenda Chamberlain: Artist and Writer by 9781912681068
Booksplease Price: £15.24Brenda Chamberlain lived a life of artistic engagement with the world. She published a compelling body of literary work and held solo exhibitions in London and Wales, while her work was shown in over... -
Figurehead by Carly Holmes 9781914595059
Booksplease Price: £14.06Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are in turn chilling, playful, and melancholy. The bonds of family and of community, both in their fracturing and their healing states, the... -
Song of the Water by Diana Powell 9781914595639
Booksplease Price: £8.10A reliable and clean source of water is essential for any community, so it is easy to understand how important wells were for pre-modern peoples. More complex is the mystical relationship humans have... -
The Oldest Music by Phil Cope 9781914595653
Booksplease Price: £8.10A reliable and clean source of water is essential for any community, so it is easy to understand how important wells were for pre-modern peoples. More complex is the mystical relationship humans have... -
Ward Nine: Coronavirus: One Woman's Story by Alys Morgan 9781913640316
Booksplease Price: £12.67Alys Morgan was admitted to hospital on the 19th of April, with an unexplained sickness which had rendered her too weak to move. The next day she was diagnosed with Covid-19 - though staff... -
Miner's Day, with Rhondda images by Isabel Alexander by B. L. Coombes
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £30.36Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series. Originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.'Coombes and... -
Cardiff 75: Contemporary Writing from the City by Sara, Paul, Martin Hayes, Jauregui, Buckridge
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Cardiff Writers' Circle was formed in 1947 and is joined here by other local writinggroups, all lending their imaginations to a wide variety of styles, genres, and formats. You may laugh. You may cry... -
A Wilder Wales: Travellers' Tales 1610-1831 by David Lloyd Owen
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79A Wilder Wales highlights the astonishing transformation of Wales from a poor rural backwater to the crucible of the industrial revolution and offers readers an insight into the ways in which ... -
The Journey is Home by John Sam Jones
Booksplease Price: £18.31In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a... -
The Dark Philosophers by Gwyn Thomas
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Sex, murder, and a devastating, humour mark these three novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In Oscar, the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil that envelops him... -
How (Not) to Do It All: Energise Your Life Emma Short 9781914595387
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Dr Emma Short offers a fresh perspective with a simple evidence-based guide to leading a healthier, happier and calmer life. It has a holistic approach to wellbeing, exploring areas as diverse as... -
Martha, Jack & Shanco Caryl Lewis 9781912681778
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Bound together by blood ties, Martha, Jack and Shanco live on a farm in west Wales where their lives unfold in their eerie half- presence of their dead parents. Glimmers of understanding... -
Hymnal by Julia Bell
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Late in the 1960s, before Bell was born, her father and mother visited Aberaeron, a small fishing town on the west coast of Wales. Here, her father heard a voice - which he knew to be God - directing... -
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10New edition of one of Parthian's most acclaimed recent titles, complete with a stunning redesigned jacket. Ironopolis is a warren of streets, memories and people with secrets... Glen James... -
Rocking the Boat: Welsh Women who Championed Equality 1840-1990 Prof. Angela V. John 9781912109500
Booksplease Price: £25.26This insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and... -
A Bad Decade for Good People by Joe Bedford 9781914595554
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'An ode to grief and sibling love from a great new voice' Kit de Waal, author of My Name Is Leon 'A beautifully layered story... Poignant, astute and hopeful' Sharon Duggal, author of Should We... -
Tree of Crows by Lewis Davies 9780952155836
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32A brooding, murder mystery that hinges on the dark edges of imagination. A death on the mountain but no body, only rumours. Elan has been missing for two years. Her people presume she has abandoned... -
All Things Betray Thee: v. 31 Gwyn Thomas 9781908069733
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05With passion, humour and remarkable insight Gwyn Thomas captures the world of South Wales in the 1830s during the turbulent years of the Merthyr and Newport Risings. As the newly-built foundries... -
Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and Other Poets and Poetry Vernon Watkins 9781909844056
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909844056Author Vernon WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint -
Turning the Tide by Prof. Angela V. John 9781909844728
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Second Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and... -
Cwmardy by Lewis Jones 9781910409381
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The first of Lewis Jones' two epic industrial novels of the 1930s. Big Jim, collier and ex-Boer War soldier, and his partner Sian endure the impact of strikes, riots and war, while their son Len... -
The Flight of Sarah Battle by Alix Nathan 9781910409602
Booksplease Price: £10.13Born in her father's coffee house in Change Alley, London, Sarah Battle is raised in a smoke-thick atmosphere of coffee and alcohol. Witnessing and suffering from the destruction of the Gordon Riots... -
In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl Rachel Trezise 9781912109791
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Debut novel from Rachel Trezise, winner of the Orange Futures Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. The story of a brutal childhood in the Welsh Valleys. Rebecca is trying to grow up fast but the whole... -
Insomnia Alberts Bels 9781912109425
Booksplease Price: £16.27Censored in Latvia until 2003 Translated by Jayde Will. Originally written in 1967 and not released in its uncensored form until 2003, Bels's infamous novel, Insomnia, has become a classic of Cold... -
The Night Circus and Other Stories Ursula Kovalyk 9781912681044
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.54Blending the naturalistic and the fabulistic, these elusive, delicate stories fold fable and fairy tale into the everyday, domestic settings of kitchen, garden, car. Women love, and lose, strange... -
Shattercone Tristan Hughes 9781912681471
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05From the remote forests of northern Ontario to a Neolithic burial chamber on the coast of north Wales, from a frozen lake in the Canadian wilderness to a mysterious Welsh heath, Shattercone takes the... -
The Road to Zarauz by Sam Adams 9781912681853
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The Perseids brought it all out of the past, with a force like a blow that leaves you winded. The night lurched and seemed to swoop suddenly down. The boy still lay on his back, but when I sat up, ... -
Sport: a Literary Anthology by Gareth Williams 9781902638898
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Sport is one of our consuming passions, and its literature is rich and extensive. This original and enjoyable anthology brings together for the very first time the finest writing on Welsh sport by...