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Gazooka by Gwyn Thomas 9781914595721
RRP: $17.55Booksplease Price: $13.77A small Welsh valley community come together to form a carnival marching band in Gwyn Thomas' farcical exploration of the social, economic and political turbulence abound in twentieth century Wales... -
The Dark Philosophers by Gwyn Thomas
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Sex, 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... -
Y Traddodiad Barddol by Gwyn Thomas 9780708326213
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32A lively and scholarly introduction to early Welsh poetry up to the period of court poetry, with notes on style, background and translations of the poems themselves; suitable for sixth form and... -
All Things Betray Thee: v. 31 Gwyn Thomas 9781908069733
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.75With 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... -
Fury of Past Time: A Life of Gwyn Thomas by Daryl Leeworthy 9781913640101
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he went off to study Spanish at Oxford University and in... -
Contesting Legitimacy in Chile: Familial Ideals, Citizenship, and Political Struggle, 1970-1990 by Gwynn Thomas 9780271048499
Booksplease Price: $72.91When supporters and critics of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet squared off against each other in the streets and elsewhere following his death in December 2006, most observers saw this... -
The Small Mine by Menna Gallie 9781916821163
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64First published in 1962, this novel tells the tale of a young collier's death in a mining accident in Cilhendre, a fictional industrial village in the south Wales Valleys. The story vividly and... -
World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950 by Michael Niblett 9783030385804
Booksplease Price: $138.22Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity... -
World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1950 by Michael Niblett 9783030385835
Booksplease Price: $138.22Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity... -
Ponty is it?: Travels in a Valleys Town Daryl Leeworthy 9781914595943
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.07Let's face it, there is only one Ponty. Pontypridd: birthplace of Tom Jones and the Welsh National Anthem, and home to what was once the most famous bridge in the world. With their penchant for... -
To Hell with Culture: Anarchism and Twentieth-century British Literature H Gustav Klaus 9780708318980
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.48To Hell with Culture': Anarchism in Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the ways in which anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism made an impact in British twentieth-century literature.About the... -
The First XV: A Selection of the Best Welsh Rugby Writing Gareth Williams 9781910901069
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $12.42We all like choosing the best-ever Welsh rugby team, but here is a XV with a difference. Here they are not players but writers. The exploits of the people's heroes from Gould to Gareth Edwards are... -
Tir Newydd: Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg a'r Ail Ryfel Byd Gerwyn Wiliams 9780708319116
RRP: $9.73Booksplease Price: $8.89How the Second World War was imagined and portrayed by Welsh authors is the subject matter of this volume, which follows on from Y Rhwyg (1993) and Tir Neb (1996) which discuss the Welsh poetry and... -
Labour Country: Political Radicalism and Social Democracy in South Wales 1831-1985 by Daryl Leeworthy
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Since the end of WWI, one party has held the momentum of political and social change in south Wales: the Labour Party. Its triumph was never fully guaranteed. It came quickly amidst a torrent of... -
The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 Stephen W. Angell 9780271095035
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $64.02The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women's... -
The Creation of Modern Quaker Diversity, 1830–1937 by Stephen W. Angell 9780271095028
RRP: $189.13Booksplease Price: $170.55The period from 1830 to 1937 was transformative for modern Quakerism. Practitioners made significant contributions to world culture, from their heavy involvement in the abolitionist and women's... -
The Lawyer of Skagway James Warden 9781836155645
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.07Seeking adventure and the desire to experience life, Young Jamie Douglas, armed with a law degree from Edinburgh university, sets out for Alaska, spurred on by news of the Klondike gold rush of... -
The White Giraffe Series: The Last Leopard: Book 3 Lauren St John 9781842556672
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.70The third of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series, in which Martine and Ben must save the world's rarest leopard.Martine is looking forward to the holidays and riding Jemmy, her white... -
The Mabinogion by Sioned Davies
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $20.42Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever...