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Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Author Sue Gee explores the wellspring of creativity and practice of twelve prominent but various writers...
View full detailsThe Dictionary of Welsh Biography 1941-1970
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A valuable gift to Welsh scholarship being the English version of The Dictionary of Welsh Biography 1941-...
View full detailsHymns and Arias - Great Welsh Voices
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Compiling - in some instances for the first time in print - the ve ry best songs, poems abd stories frim ...
View full detailsIt's Wales: Welsh National Heroes
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A collection of short biographies of 61 Welsh national heroes in the fields of politics and culture, reli...
View full detailsPretty Maids
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This unique book celebrates the lives of many remarkable women and the beauty of the flowers dedicated to...
View full detailsThe Greatest Need
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: The first full biography of Lily Tobias (1887-1984) a Jewish writer from Wales: a courageous, idealistic ...
View full detailsEsmé
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A profile of Esmé Kirby, the conservationist who formed the Snowdonia National Park Society. Her career b...
View full detailsThe Woman Who Helped Win the War: The Welfare Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George, 1914-1918
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: O'Brien's second biography of Margaret describes her 6 major campaigns during WWI: for her Welsh Troops F...
View full detailsCampaigns of Margaret Lloyd George, The
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A highly readable, in-depth analysis of the public life of Dame Margaret as wife of Prime Minister David ...
View full detailsJim Neat - The Case of a Young Man Down on his Luck
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Mary J. Oliver goes in search of her father through the few memories she has of him and discovers an unfu...
View full detailsSetting the Record Straight
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Landmark collection of first-hand testimonies of the women in contemporary Welsh government who were the ...
View full detailsAbsolute Optimist - Remembering Eluned Phillips
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This is an affectionate yet critical biography of Eluned Phillips (1914-2009), an unsung heroine of Welsh...
View full detailsChristopher ‘Gyp' Davies: A Valleys Legend
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Life story of former miner Gyp, a working-class man from south Wales who has led an extraordinary life of...
View full detailsThe Man in Black
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: The true story of former criminal defence lawyer Dylan Rhys Jones' experience of defending Rhyl serial ki...
View full detailsGrav: The Legend of Ray Gravell
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Ray Gravell was undoubtedly one of Wales and rugby's greatest characters. He touched the hearts of all wh...
View full detailsModi - Wheels of Change
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Modi - Wheels of Change is the biography of Narendra Damodardas Modi, the 15th and current Prime Minister...
View full detailsOh Dad! A Search for Robert Mitchum
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: A book in which writer and broadcaster Lloyd Robson goes in search of the original Hollywood badboy and o...
View full detailsGringo Revolutionary: The Amazing Adventures of Carel Ap Rhys Pryce
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: John Humphries unearths the amazing story of Carel ap Rhys Pryce from his origins in south Wales, through...
View full detailsMr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Mr Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the first biography of Gareth Jones and reveals the remarkable y...
View full detailsHalf Time - The Autobiography (Paperback)
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: An English and updated version of Hanner Amser, published in 2008. Nigel Owens is a familiar figure on st...
View full detailsPity the Swagman - The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Biography of Joseph Jenkins (1818-98) who left his family and successful farm in Wales to travel Australi...
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Dr Henry Hicks (1837-99) - The Life and Times of Dr Henry Hicks of St Davids, and the Bubble That Re
Dr Henry Hicks (1837-99) - The Life and Times of Dr Henry Hicks of St Davids, and the Bubble That Re
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Geology was St David's doctor Henry Hicks' huge passion. Author of many articles, he made a major contrib...
View full detailsEmyr Humphreys
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: Published to mark the centenary of his birth in 2019, this is the first comprehensive and authoritative s...
View full detailsScientists of Wales: William Robert Grove - Victorian Gentleman of Science
Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description: This authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove, provides a fascinating st...
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