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Welcome to our 50th Anniversary Catalogue!

Following the great party we had in Aberystwyth in May, with two top Welsh bands, it’s still hard to believe we’ve now hit middle age, especially as we’ve always flaunted our roots in the youthful protest of the fun-loving, anti- establishment Sixties! But if we’ve managed to build a such as Nigel Owens and Carwyn James, biographies successful company over the of leading Welsh footballers and also books inspired years, hopefully true to those by Wales’ recent foray into the European Cup. There ideals, how can we complain? are books about Welsh history – national and local Y Lolfa literally means – creative fiction, poetry, ‘The Lounge’ but also ‘Fun- humour and biographies of place’, Lol being the satirical general interest. We now magazine we got involved publish a wide choice for with back in the Sixties. We Welsh learners, and a range were the unofficial printers to of Welsh-interest books for the activist Welsh Language tourists. Society and as publishers we However, please note that aimed at a mix of the political this catalogue includes and popular. Our earliest best- books published in the last seller – selling over 250,000 three years only, with just a Our warehouse in Talybont, with its mural copies – was the humorous few from our backlist. For a by local artist, Ruth Jên Welsh is Fun, and we then full list of titles, authors, and gradually expanded into all sorts of books of Welsh other information, please go interest, in both languages. for a print quote, to our new, mobile-friendly email This variety is reflected in this catalogue. You’ll find website at www.ylolfa.com. [email protected] books by and about charismatic rugby personalities We are also active on social media and you will find the or ring Paul now on very latest information about 01970 831 901 Launching Investigating Mr Wakefield by Rob Gittins our books and happenings on Twitter, Recently-published biography of Carwyn James by Alun Gibbard Facebook and Instagram.

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Adams, Sam Davies, Brian Evans, Rhys Where the Stream Ran Red Salem Soldier Gwynfor Evans: Portrait of a The memoir of writer and editor Sam Adams. The life of Second World War soldier Elfed Patriot It’s the story of the place where he was Davies (1919–2002), who was raised in An English adaptation of a comprehensive, raised, Gilfach Goch, Glamorgan; the story the rural hamlet of Salem, Trefeurig near critical, gripping biography of the single of his family yet also the story of families Aberystwyth. The book gives vivid account most influential Welsh politician of the 20th throughout the South Wales coalfield in the of Elfed’s childhood in Trefeurig, his century, and the one most responsible for early years of the 20th century. employment in Aberystwyth before the war Welsh devolution. Includes new, revealing £9.99 9781784611187 and his time as a young soldier in the North facts about his personal life and career. African Campaign. £18.95 £9.95 9780862439187 Bevan, Teleri £9.95 9781847714428 Esme – Guardian Ferris, Paul of Snowdonia Davies, John Dylan Thomas – The Biography A profile of Esmé Kirby, A Life in History This substantial, thoroughly-researched but the conservationist who Translated from the Welsh by Jon Gower, sympathetic study has established itself as formed the Snowdonia this is the autobiography of the author the essential and unsurpassed biography of National Park Society. of the masterly A History of Wales, Dylan Thomas. According to Kingsley Amis, Her career began as published by Penguin. He describes his ‘a hilarious, shocking, sad story… a brilliant an actress, and at 23 roots in the Rhondda and Ceredigion, book.’ she married Thomas his colourful career as an academic and £12.95 9780862439033 Firbank, whose activist, and his love of travel, while also bestselling book I revealing his intimate personal beliefs. Gibbard, Alun Bought a Mountain tells £9.99 9781784612177 Into the Wind: The Life of of their married life at Dyffryn, a 3,000-acre Davies, Pennar Carwyn James A comprehensive biography of one of the farm near Capel Curig. Diary of a Soul most iconic and popular figures in Wales’ £9.95 A translation of the Welsh-language recent history, looking at the private man 9781847719553 classic Cudd fy Meiau, recording the honest as well as the public image. Carwyn James confessions of a deeply spiritual man; with was not only a legend to rugby fans in Wales Bevan, Teleri a foreword by Dr Rowan Williams, former and beyond, but also a prominent figure in The Ladies of Blaenwern Archbishop of Canterbury. the fields of Welsh broadcasting, politics and This book follows the story of three ladies £9.95 9781847713766 literature. who formed a musical partnership, The £14.99 9781784614041 Dorian Trio. By World War II, they had Davis, Kit & Davis, John turned to farming in Llanarth, where they From Harriet with Love Goodman, Jolyon kept indigenous Welsh breeds, but their main The story of Harriet Davis, the authors’ Curnow Vosper: His Life and interest was their internationally-respected daughter, who suffered from a rare Welsh cobs. degenerative metabolic disease and Works The life and work of painter Curnow Vosper £8.95 9781847712639 passed away aged only 11. In her memory, her parents established a charity which (1866–1942), best known for his iconic Bunko, Anthony provides four self-catering holiday houses painting Salem, depicting Siân Owen entering in Pembrokeshire for families with disabled the small chapel of Salem in Ardudwy. It Lord Forgive Me, but I was a describes his life growing up in Devon, (Business) Bullshit Consultant children. £9.95 9781847714190 his paintings in Brittany, and at the Royal A hilarious laugh-out-loud memoir based on Academy in London. true events. Anthony Bunko spills the beans £17.95 9781784611330 on what goes on in the two-faced world Elias, Joshua Gerwyn of BMWs, smart suits, flip charts and ever A Doctor’s Tale Gwyn, Richard changing buzzwords, while trying to cope This autobiography of a Welsh doctor with his midlife crisis. gives an insider’s view of some remarkable The Vagabond’s £9.95 9781847718754 incidents: some grave, others amusing but Breakfast many disastrous, such as the story of the 60 Richard Gwyn was Carlton, Ann year old who was convinced that she was given a year to live expecting a baby, and the young woman who in 2006 – he’d lost Penny Lane and was terrified of eating after seeing her friend nine years of his All That choke to death on chips. life to vagrancy and A celebration of £7.95 9781847713063 alcoholism in the growing up in Mediterranean. Here’s Liverpool’s Penny Lane Evans, Adrian M an account of those neighbourhood in years: redemption via the 1940s and 1950s, A Life’s Journey Spanning 80 years, retired NHS senior friendship, imagination, the place and time administrator Adrian Evans’ autobiography love, fatherhood; very familiar to the recalls childhood memories in Aberystwyth recovery and a life- Quarrymen/Beatles, and comments on the changing pattern of saving liver graft. who celebrated it healthcare provision in the UK, but peppers Welsh Book of the Year, Non-fiction 2012 in their well-known his story with many amusing anecdotes. £9.99 9780956012555 song of that name. 55 £6.95 9781847716415 photographs. Jones, Aneurin £9.99 Evans, Ceiriog Gwynne Harvest Moon 9781784613693 Never Again… No Bloody Fear! The autobiography of the most prominent Davies, Barbara A light-hearted reminiscence – funny, tragic portrayer of Welsh rural life and its close-knit and sometimes disastrous – of the author’s communities, together with his most iconic Evacuee forays into amateur dramatics, choirs, and paintings. A handsome book depicting a way The remarkable story of Barbara Warlow education over the past 45 years. Includes of life that is rapidly disappearing while also Davies, who, as an English-speaking four suggestions which may help budding actors, celebrating the work of one of Wales’ greatest year old, was evacuated from Liverpool to singers and performers. artists. Talgarreg in Ceredigion during the Second

World War. £9.95 9781847716729 £19.95 (hardback) 9781847718747 £7.99 9781784612917 page 4 for the full list, visit our website www.ylolfa.com

Jones, Dai Lloyd, David A Life to Dai For Start the Clock and Cue The autobiography of the Band – A Life in popular Welsh TV and Television radio personality, Dai The autobiography of David Jones Llanilar. In A Life Lloyd, who spent his career as a to Dai For, Dai looks director of television programmes, back at his adventures travelling from Aberystwyth over the past fifteen to London, from Norwich to years or so since his Aberdeen, from Cardiff to Europe, first autobiography. America, Israel, Africa and Japan £9.99 before retiring back home in 9781784614478 Ceredigion. £9.95 9781784610678 Llywelyn, Jen Pilgrim of Peace Jones, Eirian The biography of the Glyn Mathias The Welsh Lady from peacemaker George M Ll Davies Canaan (1880–1949), Methodist minister, The incredible adventures conscientious objector, Member Maund, Margaret of Margaret Jones from of Parliament and charismatic Congo Calling Rhosllannerchrugog, who Welshman, reflecting his broad A follow-up to Decades of Discovery, this became famous in 19th- spectrum of interests and placing book concentrates on the author’s time living century Wales as the ‘Welsh him at the heart of events in the in the former Belgian Congo in Central Lady from Canaan’ as a first half of the 20th century in Africa between 1968 and 1971. She relates result of her travels on five Wales and beyond. the difficulties, but her stories also reflect continents. Her letters from £12.99 9781784612405 the fun, joy, friendship and hope of a very Jerusalem appear in this book, challenging period in her life. alongside an account of her Malone, Aubrey £7.95 9781847716668 extraordinary life. Still Rockin’: Tom Jones, £9.95 9781847714220 A Biography Money, Owen A short biography of Tom Jones’ rags to riches Money Talks Jones, Gareth Wyn story – his journey from a Welsh mining The lively, funny autobiography of the The Hill Farmer village to superstardom. The author gives Merthyr-born Radio Wales presenter, The autobiography of Welsh hill farmer a balanced and sympathetic account of his comedian and showbiz legend. As a Gareth Wyn Jones, star of the recent TV musical career, his special relationship with teenager he was torn between a career as a series The Hill Farm, who came to national his wife and Wales while not ignoring his professional footballer or as a pop singer, but prominence in the aftermath of the severe womanizing. the lure of the bright lights beckoned and he snowstorm which hit his farm in the £6.95 9781847711649 has since starred on stage and screen. With a Carneddau mountain range in North Wales in foreword by Rob Brydon. March 2013. Marks, Howard £12.95 9781847712356 £9.95 9781784610067 Two Dragons This book tells the story Morgan, John M Leech, Alan of Welshman Howard Fifty Years Within Station Dan Jenkins: A Biography Marks, who discovered Limits The biography of enterprising Welsh character his true Welsh identity A detailed account of the impact of Dan Jenkins (1856–1946), who achieved after a notorious few the railways on a South Wales village a great deal for the newly-emerging board decades in and out of jail. community and its surroundings, from schools of the late 19th century in terms of Raised in Kenfig Hill, the beginning of the 20th century until curriculum, use of the Welsh language, St South Wales, he became its end. The book also covers the period David’s Day celebrations and the promotion of one of the world’s most the author spent in Egypt on National many Mid- and West-Wales activities. prolific drug smugglers. Service. £9.95 9781847713162 £7.95 £7.95 9781847718297 9781847712905 Lewis, Richard Morgans, John I Out of the Valley Mathias, Glyn The Honest Heretique An entertaining and informative auto­ Raising an Echo The first biography of William Erbery biography by Welsh television producer/ The moving, honest and humorous (1604–1654), a Welsh clergyman and radical director Richard Lewis, who entered the autobiography of Glyn Mathias, the political independent theologian. The volume contains world of TV in the early 1960s, a formative editor of ITN News and then of BBC Wales an introduction to his thinking as well as time for broadcasting in Wales. Subjects in the run-up to the Welsh referendum. His extracts from his writings. include the evangelist Evan Roberts, and a story reveals the times but also his personal £14.95 9781847714855 recreation of the last days of Dylan Thomas conflicts, caught as he was between an army in America. chaplain grandfather and a poet father, who Needs, Chris £8.95 9781847711496 did time as a conscientious objector. Chris Needs: Like It Is £9.95 9781847718204 Llewelyn, John The autobiography of one of Wales’ favourite Maund, Margaret radio presenters. Includes an honest account Departing from Logic of his traumatic childhood, his showbiz A memoir of family life in the Ebbw Valley Decades of Discovery career and his rise to stardom with 40,000 between the 1930s and the 1950s, then of Born in the South Wales Valleys, the author fans in the ‘Garden’ on his legendary Radio foreign travels far beyond Offa’s Dyke, and led a remarkable life as a nurse and midwife Wales programme. finally reconnection with the culture of in central Africa in the late 1960s. She was £9.95 9781847710154 Wales. The travels are also inward journeys among the first women to be ordained as an from a curious mental bind with which Anglican priest and in this autobiography the narrator found himself faced in his charts the highs and lows of a life spent professional career. breaking new ground. £9.95 9781847714794 £9.95 9781847712622 page 5 for the full list, visit our website www.ylolfa.com biography

Needs, Chris Pierce, James and cycling adventures in Wales, and went And There’s More A Rare Scholar: The Life and to London for the Festival of Britain and the Following on from the best-selling Like It Is, Work of William Salesbury Coronation. this book contains further hilarious anecdotes The biography of the gifted linguist, scholar £9.99 9781784612030 from the legendary radio presenter. Needs and lawyer who dedicated (and risked) his tracks down his numerous ex-boyfriends, one life to bring to his people the benefits of Stephens, Meic of whom turns out to be a beautiful blonde the Humanist My Shoulder to the Wheel who is now his ex-girlfriend! revolution. He The autobiography of Meic Stephens, the £9.95 9781847711489 was the principal former director of literature at the Welsh Arts translator of the Council, literary journalist, Needs, Chris 1567 Welsh New poet, editor, columnist Chris Needs: Testament. and obituarist. Stephens Highs and Lows £14.99 is a fearless and respected This third book tells us 9781784612726 critic and a scrupulous so much more about literary commentator who Chris’s life. He delves Pope, Mal has been a key figure in into those experiences Old Enough Welsh literature, culture in life which have and politics over the past kept him alive and, to Know fifty years. on the other hand, Better £9.95 9781784610746 those episodes which The have nearly killed him. autobiography of Veasey, Richard With new photographs the singer, writer Thomas Jones of and broadcaster that will fascinate his Pencerrig legions of fans. from Brynhyfryd, Swansea. As a teenager he sent a tape of songs he had written to John Artist, traveller, country £9.95 squire: the biography 9781847713773 Peel on Radio 1 and was invited to perform on John’s Sounds of the Seventies show. Six of Welsh 18th-century landscape painter Thomas Jones (1742–1803) O’Brien, Michael weeks later Mal was signed to Elton John’s Rocket record company. from Radnorshire. The Death of Justice £9.95 9781847712912 £12.99 9781784613709 The harrowing autobiography of someone who was imprisoned for 11 years for a Rees, Dewi White, Lilian & White, Stephen murder he didn’t commit. One of the Cardiff General Practice as it Was The Last Evacuee: Reflections Newsagent Three, Michael received the upon a Changing Window largest payout ever for a wrong conviction by A biographical account of the life of a Welsh The Second World War experiences of Lilian the police. GP starting out in mid-1950s South Wales and late 1950s Labrador, Canada. Dewi Rees White, who was evacuated from London to £9.95 9781847710482 then became a GP in rural Mid Wales before live with a privileged middle-class family in the Pembrokeshire coastal town of Tenby, far O’Brien, Michael retiring to Warwickshire in 1980. Here is his fascinating story. removed from her lowly upbringing. Prisons Exposed £9.95 9781847714121 £9.95 9781847718303 An insight into what it’s like to be in prison on a day-to-day basis and how the prison Rees, Ivor Thomas Williams, Derek R system actually works. Based on his first- Williams, The Llawnt hand experience inside Cardiff Prison, Saintly Enigma Biography recalling the life and work of the Michael recounts the experiences of inmates A biography of Pennar Davies: author, Revd Robert Williams (1810–81), a Celtic and prison officers alike. poet, theologian and activist. It includes descriptions of the South Wales of his scholar who spent most of his working life £7.95 9781847714114 childhood, the Welsh political awakening as a rural clergyman and a private tutor at Rhydycroesau, near Oswestry. Owen, Robert of the period, his time as principal of a theological college, and an examination of his £7.95 9781847716675 From Criccieth to Kathmandu groundbreaking books. The autobiography of Professor Robert Owen £9.95 9781847713704 Williams, Orig OBE, a leading Welsh orthopaedic surgeon El Bandito who has lived life to the full. Raised on a Rees, Ivor Thomas Orig Williams, better known as international farm near Llanystumdwy, North Wales, he wrestler El Bandito, was a fierce nationalist, trained at Guy’s Hospital before serving The Sledgehammer Pastor a friend of poets, gangsters and psychopathic in the RAF and working as a consultant in Daniel Hughes 1875–1972 wrestlers. He was once stoned by a crowd Clwyd and as an academic in Liverpool. A biography of an unconventional in the packed Lahore Cricket ground in £6.95 9781784611828 Nonconformist minister who served churches of various denominations in Lancashire, Pakistan, and in Turkey the crowd burnt Cheshire and America, but mainly in down the stadium Parker, Mike where he’d The Greasy Poll industrial South Wales. His socialist ideals often brought him into conflict with his just finished Author and stand-up Mike Parker was deacons: locked out of his chapels, he performing. selected as the Plaid resorted to a sledgehammer to gain £9.95 Cymru candidate admittance. 9781847712929 for the 2015 general election in the party’s £9.95 9781784610777 top target seat of Ceredigion. This Smith, Beatrice book is his diary of Gasmasks and Garston the campaign, from – A Liverpool Childhood the many moments (1937–1953) of great hope to the A wry, autobiographical account of controversies that a girl growing up in a large, chapel- saw him vilified going, working-class family in the in sensationalist dockland area of Garston between the newspaper headlines, Great Depression of the 1930s and the and his ultimate defeat. Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. £9.99 9781784612696 The author’s family had many camping page 6 for the full list, visit our website www.ylolfa.com fiction

Arcari, Anita Davis, Gwynn Hicks, Jonathan The Hokey Pokey Man Aberystwyth Boy Demons Walk Among Us A moving and poignant family saga spanning Thirteen short stories reflecting the author’s The second Thomas Oscendale novel, several generations in Italy and Wales, experiences of growing up in the seaside following the success of The Dead of Mametz. describing the hopes and struggles of a young town of Aberystwyth between the ages of ten This novel opens in Gallipoli on 4 March man as he leaves his beautiful mountain and eighteen. 1915 as the invasion force prepares to land home to find his fortune in a foreign land. £6.95 9781784611200 on the Dardanelles. Oscendale is a thoughtful £8.95 detective who fights against the brutality he 9781847712578 Duthie, Paul sees all around to bring a killer to justice… A Servant of the Governor £8.95 9780956012593 Atenstaedt, Rob A historical novel based on the actual Dr Volkisch and events surrounding the Swing Riots Hughes, John the Stempelhorst in Hampshire in 1830. Two brothers, Glyndŵr’s Daughter who are agricultural workers, protest Gwenllian was Owain Glyndãr’s daughter. Legacy against the use of labour-displacing Her life was tied to the ebb and flow of her A fast-paced thriller set in threshing machines – but are sentenced father’s war and this novel is based on poems the period immediately to transportation to Australia for life… written by Lewis Glyn Cothi, Llawdden and after the reunification £7.95 9781784611453 Ieuan Gyfannedd. of Germany in 1990. Dr £7.95 9781847713315 Kurt Volkisch, a senior Gittins, Rob ex-SS doctor who has somehow escaped being Gimme Shelter Hughes, John brought to justice, is A young female witness protection Llywelyn reactivated to perform a officer pits herself against one of the Set in medieval Wales in the final years of duty entrusted to him in deadliest psychopaths imaginable as the reign of Prince Llywelyn, the last Welsh the dying days of the German Third Reich. she fights to keep her witness safe; but Prince, our heroine Beth finds herself at the is that witness all she claims to be? And, in a £7.95 9781847714282 heart of the political intrigue and in-fighting world in which nothing can be taken on trust, at Llywelyn’s court. The prince has many Blank, Jane is the protection officer all she seems? enemies – not just the ruthless King Edward £8.95 9780956012586 I of England, but also his own brother The Geometry of Love Dafydd… This novel is set in Sheffield in the 1980s, Gittins, Rob where the New Romantics vie with the £8.95 9781847718327 Northern Soulers for control of the clubs Secret Shelter and fashion scene. The miners are on strike, The sequel to Rob Gittins’ Hughes, John Thatcher’s in power, but all this means hard-hitting first crime The Lost Welsh Kingdom nothing to two teenage girls looking for kicks thriller, Gimme Shelter, this A novel set in the period of the – their one aim: to lose their virginity! novel continues the story of reign of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn witness protection officer Ros £7.95 9781847710390 (1039–63), a violent, determined Gilet. man who became the undisputed Blank, Jane £8.95 9781784610739 king of all Wales. The story follows the life of Elen who, against her The Shadow of Nanteos Gittins, Rob will, becomes embroiled with that A historical love story based on the lives of of this most powerful of Welsh the Powell family of Nanteos mansion near Investigating Mr kings at his capital in Rhuddlan. Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. Set in the 1750s, a Wakefield time of great turbulence in the area nicknamed A psychological thriller which £8.99 9781784611699 ‘The Wild West’, the book sets the personal studies the male desire to tragedy of the gentry family against the possess, control and watch his Humphries, John background of the Cardiganshire lead wars. beloved in the most intimate Last Rites £8.99 9781784611712 of spaces. A ringing telephone, once £8.99 9781784612399 belonging to the KGB, leads investigative journalist Jack Flynt to a Breton Jane Blank at Nanteos Mansion Gittins, Rob island in search of the The Poet and the Private Eye woman pleading for New York, 1953. A private investigator takes help at the other end on a tail job, his quarry a newly-arrived of the line. visitor from the UK. The private eye has £8.99 never heard of him, but he will. The mark is 9781784612535 the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. And in three weeks’ time, Mr Thomas will be dead… Jones, Graham £8.95 (paperback) / £14.95 (hardback) Return from 9781847718990 / 9781847719836 Darkness Schoolboy David’s Griffiths, Peter life is changed for the The Mystical Milestone better by an encounter A novel set on the Gower peninsula, South with the guarded and Wales, in the 1980s. It explores obsession, mysterious headmaster mysticism, loyalty and faith. of his school. A £7.95 9781847718273 storyteller and mystic, he opens the timid boy’s eyes to the reality Hicks, Jonathan of ‘other worlds’ beyond our own. Twenty- The Dead of Mametz five years later, returning to Pembrokeshire, Thomas Oscendale, a military policeman David embarks on a quest that will take him based in France, investigates the suicide deeper into these alien realms. of a corporal of the Welsh Regiment and £8.99 9781784613716 two related murders in June 1916. His investigation reveals a map marking a spot in Mametz Wood which is also of interest to British and German Intelligence… £8.95 9781847713155 for the full list, visit our website www.ylolfa.com

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Jones, Lloyd Morgan, Sheila Williams, Gwyn Water Olicka Bolicka & Pink Bluebells The Last House Officer A gripping novel set on a remote lakeside Ivy Edmunds and her family relocate at The story of Owen Morgan, a junior doctor farm, Dolfrwynog, in North Wales, where her husband’s insistence from a recently- trying to find his feet in the modern NHS. we are introduced to a family living a basic allocated modern council house near the sea Unfortunately he is peculiarly ill-equipped life following a worldwide ecological crisis. to a shabby terrace in a South Wales mining to survive the demands of the ever-changing The mother, Elin, has turned her back on the village, to escape bombing during World War world of hospital medicine, his feisty Indian world, Uncle Wil is aging and the children, II. Ivy is loath to go, but gradually her opinion wife, his two sons and their tumultuous home Mari and Huw, have yet to realize the tragedy of her new surroundings changes. life. that’s isolating the farm… £7.95 9781847710956 £8.99 9781784611224 £8.95 9781847718181 Moynihan, Thomas T Williams, Herbert Jones, Moelwyn To Win Against the Odds Love Child Glyndŵr: Son of Prophecy The extraordinary early life-story of Thomas This fast-moving novel traces the return of a Novel based on the real life and battles of Jones who, abandoned by his father at birth, Fleet Street reporter to the seaside town of Owain Glyndãr. The first in a trilogy. is bullied at school in the Valleys of South Glanaber to cover a sex scandal involving the £6.99 9781784613006 Wales. To defend himself, the seven-year-old college principal. He makes a splash and is is given boxing lessons by his grandmother… relocated there to start up a new magazine. Jones, Moelwyn £5.95 9781847710925 He meets up with his old girlfriend Annette, who had a baby by him… Glyndŵr – To Owen, Llwyd Arms £8.95 9781847713070 In this, the second in Faith, Hope and Love Alun Brady, a young man who has led a Williams, Peter Gordon the trilogy, resident sheltered life with his parents in a rich bard Gruffudd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd: The Life Cardiff suburb, is thrown into bizarre new Caradog tells Glyndãr and Death of a Warrior Prince situations when his grandfather comes to of a time at the Llywelyn narrates his own story in this live with the family. He meets colourful beginning of the 1400s historical novella based on the life and new characters who disrupt and shatter his when a new spirit times of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (c.1223–82), monotonous life. of Welsh pride was ‘Llywelyn the Last’. born and the Welsh £9.99 9780955527272 £6.95 9781784611392 nobility put aside their differences. Owen, Llwyd Williams, Peter Gordon £7.99 The Last Hit Owain Glyndãr: The Last Prince 9781784614034 A gripping novel by Llwyd Owen about an underworld of gang warfare in South Wales, of Wales Williams takes up the story of Glyn Dãr, Lloyd, David where murder is becoming a way of life. The Welsh-language version of this novel, Yr warrior, magician, international statesman Tales of an Aber Lad Ergyd Olaf, was long-listed for the Book of the and political visionary, in 1399. Glyn Dãr Short stories depicting life in Aberystwyth Year award. is already middle aged but, after fighting in the 1940s and 1950s: the old cinemas, the alongside Richard II in the Scottish £8.95 9780956012579 circus, sweet shops, the Pier and everything campaigns, finds Henry IV wanting and so that made life worth living in Aberystwyth. Pryce, Malcolm begins the Welsh Revolt: the longest rebellion £9.95 9781847710963 in medieval history. A Dragon to Agincourt £7.95 9781847713636 Luther, Peter An action-packed historical novel set during Owain Glyndãr’s War of independence Dark Covenant against the English. We relive this bloody A vivid novel full of suspense, magic and but inspirational period of national rebellion mystery. In the 19th century, a sinister through the eyes of Owain’s closest Llwyd Owen launching The Last Hit publication transformed a disfigured associates. prostitute into a beautiful and wealthy £7.95 9780862436841 socialite. Now in the form of a glossy magazine, it is performing miracles for a Pugh, Ieuan M lawyer down on his luck. £7.95 9780862439545 Dead Man Airbrushed A novel set in an art college at the beginning Luther, Peter of the 1960s. Johannes Taliesin applies for a commission in the RAF, but ends up in an The Vanity Rooms art college where everything and everyone is The third book in the ‘Honeyman’ series, above his station. He goes insane, at which Honeyman being a sort of spiritual detective point the story develops. on the trail of a Satanic organisation covertly £9.95 9781847718310 operating under various guises. In this latest incarnation they are a kind of arts council, Thomas, Gareth giving free accommodation to aspiring celebrities… A Welsh Dawn £8.95 9780956012562 Set in rural Wales, this novel explores the tensions within Morgan, Sheila Welsh society in the 1950s: between Welsh and English Feet of Clay speakers, between North Based in an early 1950s South Wales and South, between idealists mining village, this novel looks at the and social climbers, between families who survived the war and the generation who had who now are a two-wage household. experienced the war and the This new affluence brings with it young people who saw Wales greed, jealousy and impatience. as a European country. 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Griffiths, Robert W Hughes, T Meirion Morgan, Gerald Slaying the Dragon Caernarfon Through the Eye of A Brief History of Wales A broad critique of the negative role that Time A short pocket history of Wales, describing religion has played in influencing human From historic ships and shipping families, how the Welsh have both resisted and culture historically, along with an updated riots and flag burning to more leisurely absorbed invasion after invasion. Princes, look at its conflict with the atheist ethos; activities, this book takes us on an eye- papists, protestants, politicians, patriots, with a personal reflection on why the author opening journey through 18th–20th century prophets and proletarians pass swiftly before became a non-believer. Caernarfon. Written by popular local us in this gripping narrative of conquest, £7.95 9781847714800 historian T Meirion Hughes in his congenial resistance and survival. and informative manner. £4.95 9781847710185 Griffiths, Steve £4.95 9781847719300 Dafydd ap Llywelyn: The Shield Morgan, Gerald of Wales James, E Wyn (ed.) Castles in Wales: A Handbook This book recalls the life and career of Prince Flame in the A comprehensive introduction to the Dafydd the Second of Gwynedd and Wales Mountains: castles of Wales, with a detailed guide to 80 of them, photographs and OS grid- (c.1215–46) and a relatively forgotten era Williams in Welsh history, with guidance to many references. The introduction covers the locations which can be visited today. Includes Pantycelyn, contemporary historical significance superb colour photographs. Ann Griffiths of castles; the military and political £5.95 9781847713384 and the Welsh background; building stone castles, and mottes and ringworks; and the castles of Hymn the Welsh princes. Gruffudd, Heini The hymn is one of £6.95 9781847710314 A Haven from the great highlights Hitler of Welsh literature. This volume draws Morgan, Gerald The life of Kate Bosse- In Pursuit of Saint David Griffiths and her family together the late An examination of the life of Saint David, during the Second Professor H A Hodges’ his religion, the myths associated with World War, and the writings on William him, the history of St David’s Day and the effects of the Nazi policy Williams Pantycelyn, churches named after him. of genocide. This is a Ann Griffiths and the Welsh hymn, including poignant and moving his acclaimed English translations of Ann £5.99 9781784613723 story which describes Griffiths’s hymns and letters, and his the murder of her unpublished notes. Morgan, Gerald mother, the suicide of £12.99 9781784614546 Looking for Wales her aunt, the sacking of A collection of twelve essays on Welsh history her father – a prominent Jones, Vivian and culture, with an appendix of further surgeon – and Kate’s A Childhood in a Welsh Mining reading. escape to Wales. Valley £4.95 9781847717078 Welsh Book of the Year 2013 Vivian Jones recounts with great warmth £9.95 9781847718174 his childhood in a working-class family Morgans, John I & Noble, Peter C within the community of a small mining Our Holy Ground Hicks, Jonathan village in the Welsh Valleys in the 1930s. This book explores the history of the Welsh The Welsh at Mametz Wood This fascinating book relives that time, place Christian experience and the sense of drama A new interpretation of the First World War and culture in vivid detail and considers the that has run in its chequered path for almost battle for Mametz Wood in July 1916, telling continuing influence of growing up in such 2,000 years, making the sweep of the Welsh the story of those terrible days from the an environment. story accessible to the non-specialist. viewpoint of soldiers on both sides. It uses £9.99 9781784613754 £9.99 9781784612801 primary sources, including personal accounts and photographs published for the first time. Madgwick, Pountney, Jon & Gibbard, Alun £12.99 9781784612382 Gaynor Cardiff before Cardiff The story of a lucky find that led to a unique Aberfan photographic record of Cardiff life in the Hicks, Jonathan On 21 October 1970s and 1980s. It’s also a story of personal The Welsh at 1966, thousands tragedy and of unexpected hope that came of tonnes of Passchendaele from social media. This detailed work coal tip waste

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Richards, Alun John Walklate, Neil Trolleybus Pilot St Nicholas: A Glamorganshire An account of the surprising role played by Parish trolley buses – once a common sight in many This book outlines the history of the parish British towns and cities – in the training of of St Nicholas from 4000 BC to the 20th pilots for the Royal Air Force. A nostalgic look century. There is a wealth of information back at a previously unrecorded activity. about the houses and farms of the parish and £9.99 9781784612429 their occupants. Also the workings of the vestry, with reference to the poor, upholding Roberts, Emrys the law and maintenance of the church. Highlights from £12.95 9781847714152 Welsh History A look at the huge Williams, Owain contribution this small Tryweryn – A Nation Awakes nation of Wales has made Towns, Jeff & Thomas, Wyn The life story of Owain Williams, the Welsh to the world. Did you know freedom fighter (and later councillor) that Wales boasted the most Dylan Thomas – The Pubs who was jailed in 1963 for blowing up an advanced laws in the Middle A pictorial tour of some of the pubs favoured electricity pylon as part of the bombing Ages, as well as producing by Dylan Thomas in Swansea, West Wales, campaign against the building of the Britain’s only effective Oxford, London and the USA, with reference Tryweryn reservoir to provide water for the royal dynasty and its most to the events reflected in his famous works. city of Liverpool. effective prime minister? Full of amusing anecdotes, Thomas’ love of £9.99 9781784612467 pubs is shown to be more than just a love of £3.99 alcohol. 9781784613891 Wilkinson, Susan £19.95 (hardback) / £12.95 (paperback) Mimosa Robinson, Paul & Robinson, Robert 9781847716934 / 9781847718167 A factual history of the Fanfare for a Church ship that carried Welsh This book tells the remarkable story of The Turvey, Roger settlers to Patagonia: Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Owain Gwynedd: Prince of the her builders and a distinctive church in a small Welsh parish of Welsh owners, her time as a about 200 people who raised the cash to build A study of the life and career of Owain tea-carrying clipper it. Now a listed building, it is a monument to Gwynedd (c.1100–70), who played such a before the historic the effort of the people and the vision of the dominant role in the history of Wales before voyage across the priest and the architect. her conquest. He was king of Gwynedd until Atlantic ocean, ending £6.95 9781847712318 his death and the first to be styled ‘Prince her days on the coast of of Wales’, and the most successful of all the West Africa. North Welsh princes prior to his grandson £9.95 Llywelyn the Great. 9781784611842 £9.95 9781847716941 humour

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