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The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas Hilly Janes 9781912109814
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73One of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century, the Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas is as famous for his poetry as he is for his dissolute, Bohemian lifestyle and tempestuous... -
Old Soldier Sahib Frank Richards 9781910901205
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.42From the author of the celebrated Great War memoirAbout the AuthorFrank Richards was born in 1883 in Monmouthshire. Orphaned at nine years old, he was brought up by his aunt and uncle in the... -
Flame and Slag by Ron Berry 9781906998486
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05Flame and Slag is Ron Berry's masterpiece. It is a richly complex novel which uses the fictional sieve of Caib Colliery and the village of Daren to give meaning to the kaleidoscopic history of all... -
A Van of One's Own: A Winter Sojourn by Biddy Wells 9781910901991
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05"Portugal is not all that far away, or exotic, or dangerous, but it felt like a huge stretch for me to leave my partner, family, job and home and just go off. An overland solo trip lasting months in... -
Salacia by Mari Ellis Dunning 9781912109258
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £6.38In these poems, women raise their voices and subvert the age-old tales told on their behalf: Roman goddess Salacia explores her tumultuous relationship with Neptune; Gwen Ellis, the first woman... -
Selected Stories by Rhys Davies 9781912109784
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05"There is no short-story writer who has quite the same gift of infectious vitality, whose scenes and characters seem to come so spontaneously alive" Times Literary SupplementRhys Davies achieved an... -
Her Mother's Hands by Karmele Jaio 9781912109555
Booksplease Price: £13.16`Jaio is undoubtedly a very skillful narrator' - Inigo Roque, Gara *Winner of a PEN Translates Award *Bestselling book in Basque at the Donostia-San Sebastianand Bilbao Book Fairs, winning the... -
The Volunteers by Raymond Williams 9781914595929
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Foreword by Kim Howells Power and politics corrupt... this is the future. A worker is killed in the striking coalfields of south Wales. Some months later a government minister suspected of being... -
In the Green Tree by Alun Lewis 9781902638874
Booksplease Price: £13.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAlun Lewis (1915-1944) was one of the generation of writers born in the first two decades of the twentieth... -
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"A White Afternoon: Parthian Anthology of Welsh Short Stories by Sonia Edwards 9781902638003
Booksplease Price: £10.92A first English translation of 30 Welsh short stories featuring work by many of the leading young writers working in the Welsh language. Contributors include Aled Islwyn, Aled Lewis Evans, John Emyr,... -
The Valley, The City, The Village by Glyn Jones 9781906998134
Booksplease Price: £13.42An artist at heart, Trystan Morgan grows up in his grandmother's valley mining cottage, duty-bound by her deep wish for him to be a preacher. He comes from farming stock and longs to paint the Welsh... -
Fury of Past Time: A Life of Gwyn Thomas by Daryl Leeworthy 9781913640101
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Gwyn 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... -
Max: Hymns & Arias: The Selected Stories, Songs and Poems of Max Boyce by Max Boyce 9781913640958
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.31When 'Hymns and Arias' rang out at Cardiff Arms Park some fifty years ago, those great Welsh anthems 'Calon Lan' and 'Cwm Rhondda' had found a companion and the valleys of south Wales had produced... -
The Cormorant by Stephen Gregory 9781912681693
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.26"We had been in the cottage for a week when the cormorant was delivered, that October evening." When a young family inherit a remote mountain-side cottage in north Wales, giving them the chance... -
Y Daith Ydi Adra: Stori Gwr Ar Y Ffin by John Sam Jones 9781913640453
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913640453Author John Sam JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Seventy Years of Struggle and Achievement: Life Stories of Ethnic Minority Women Living in Wales by Meena Upadhyaya 9781913640941
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Edited and Selected by Meena Upadhyaya and Chris Weedon Narrative editor Kirsten Lavine Foreword by Julie Morgan and Jane Hutt Introduction by Prof Terry Threadgold, previous Pro-Vice-Chancellor... -
Just So You Know: Essays of Experience by Multiple Authors 9781912681822
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Edited by Hanan Issa, Durre Shahwar and OEzgur Uyanik. "I felt the city in my muscles, my saliva. I wanted to be changed. I wanted to be in love." A young woman weaves her experience of abuse... -
Flowers of War by Llyr Gwyn Lewis 9781912681259
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.06When the author is given a small package, containing letters and papers relating to his grandfather's brother, who was killed in Syria during the Second World War, it leads him on an extended... -
Fox Bites by Lloyd Markham 9781914595172
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42When Taban wishes for the world to end something out there . . . hears him. Soon the young boy is being stalked by a fox whose salivating jaws drag him into strange dreams. Dreams where he is a... -
Now You're Talking: Drama in Conversation by Hazel Walford Davies 9781902638485
Booksplease Price: £16.19Insightful and informative, this volume of essays offers a fresh outlook and critical appraisal of contemporary plays.About the AuthorHazel Walford Davies is a cultural historian, a literary critic,... -
Half Plus Seven by Dan Tyte 9781909844414
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.44Twenty-nine years old with a less than healthy appetite for booze and a buzz, Bill lived in a messy rented room, sold his soul daily in a PR agency and couldn't remember the name of the last woman he... -
The Summer Without You by Petar Andonovski 9781914595813
Booksplease Price: £9.53A story of time slipping, desire just out of reach, like memories lost...At the beginning of the summer, I had to spend two weeks in hospital... If I hadn't fallen from the balcony, what happened... -
Coalfaces Tina Carr 9781917140645
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.05Over more than ten years, Tina Carr and Annemarie Schoene worked with the residents of the valley to document the place they call 'home'. These photographs, gritty, beautiful, empathetic, sad and... -
Belonging: Tales from a Life in Africa, Wales and Beyond Patricia James 9781917140669
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Through a lens of lifelong affection, Patricia James recounts her cosmopolitan early years bringing up children in Africa, feeding crocodiles, dealing with snakes and bugs, and the lasting impact of... -
The Transplantable Roots of Catharine Huws Nagashima: Encounters with the Welsh in Japan Susan Karen Burton 9781917140430
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.01Foreword by Lord Gregory Mostyn.Since the first 'Welch' sailor set foot on Japanese shores in the seventeenth century to the present-day presence of high-tech Japanese companies in the Valleys, Wales... -
Whose Wales?: The Battle for Welsh Devolution and Nationhood 1880-2020 Gwynoro Jones 9781917140706
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.47So whose Wales is it? There is a degree of ambiguity that runs through Welsh politics that in turn has hindered discussions of a clear Welsh political identity. Can any one party claim to have done... -
The Summer Flood Goronwy Rees 9781917140515
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74Owen Morgan, an Oxford undergraduate, returns to his family home on the rural north coast of Wales for the summer. Having left for university and completing his first year with a month in Germany,... -
The Watercastle by Brenda Chamberlain 9781908069795
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The Water-castle is a journal of love, romance and discord in 1950s Germany as a Welsh artist and poet, Elizabeth Greatorex, travels with her French husband to meet her former lover Klaus, a German... -
Love What is Mortal by 9781910901786
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.30'...a stimulating read...they richly reward rereading...fresh, vibrant...'Nigel Jenkins on Cadillac Temple: haiku sequences'...ebullient, rapscallion, hilarious and tender, Norman Schwenk's poems... -
Minnie Pallister: The Voice of a Rebel Alun Burge 9781917140874
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Minnie Pallister's life was so fantastic that not even a thrillerwriter could imagine it. A feminist, pacifist and socialist, she was twice accused of sedition in the First World War before... -
Graveyards On Other Planets Roberto Pastore 9781917140584
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74In his sophomore collection, Roberto Pastore hones in on an era of constant flux, violence and grief, offering a kind of bewildered solace with a misfit voice that feels truly renewed. 'I attend the... -
The Book of Katerina by Auguste Corteau 9781912681266
Booksplease Price: £9.09"The Book of Katerina is a gleefully sardonic novel about illness and family, and how we can never quite cure ourselves of either." - GLEN JAMES BROWN Award-winning and prolific author of... -
Hunting Midnight by Richard Zimler 9781913640651
Booksplease Price: £15.24At the dawn of the nineteenth century, John Stewart Zarco lives out an inquisitive, naive childhood in his idyllic Porto community. But societal prejudices against his family's Jewish faith shatter... -
The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74BERLIN, 1932 Intelligent, artistic and precocious, fourteen-year-old Sophie Riedesel dreams of nothing more than becoming an actress and spending time with her beloved Jewish neighbour, Isaac Zarco... -
The Incandescent Threads by Richard Zimler
Booksplease Price: £15.24FINALIST FOR THE 72ND NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS - BOOK CLUB CATEGORY ONE OF THE SUNDAY TIMES' BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2022 'Zimler is an honest, powerful writer' The Guardian 'A... -
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale by Dai Smith
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth. RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influential socialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for the first time, making full... -
The Search for Sana by Richard Zimler
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.74In February 2000, the writer Richard Zimler met a mysterious dancer at an Australian literary festival, only to witness her tragic suicide the next day. This shocking act was to trigger an... -
Scrabble in the Afternoon by Biddy Wells
Booksplease Price: £11.74FROM THE AUTHOR OF A VAN OF ONE'S OWN When Biddy Wells's elderly mother is suddenly struck down with a mysterious illness, Biddy moves her into the spare bedroom, little knowing how long the... -
Country Dance by Margiad Evans
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Country Dance is a story of passion, jealousy and revenge centred around a young woman torn between the opportunities and dangers of her life who grows up in an isolated rural community on the... -
Young Emma by W. H. Davies
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05At 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 where he had been lionised since the publication...