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From Dowlais Top and the ironworks to Pennydarren Park and the steamed pies at Basini's Café, this guidebook is an enthralling look at one of the most important small towns in Britain--Merthyr. Mixing history, myth, and personal recollections, the commentary points out the ancient sites of a Roman fort and a Norman castle and tours the factories, slums, and charming Victorian buildings that are the legacy of the Industrial Revolution. The town...

The overlapping essays in this book create a multifaceted picture of Peter Prendergast's four-decade career in which he has established himself as one of Britain's foremost landscape painters, best known for his bold, expressionist paintings of north Wales, and as a formidable painter of portraits and self-portraits. All of Prendergast's subjects are celebrated with vigor and energy in stunning color reproductions, and the essays highlight his...

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Left wing, working class radical Elaine Morgan was a trailblazing woman writer, especially in tv writing where her credits included Lloyd George. She also wrote about feminism and anthropology, with The Descent of Woman and The Aquatic Ape. This new biography celebrates her achievements and looks at the person behind the writing on her centenary.

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Tea in the Heather is Kate Roberts's classic tale of family and community in the hill-farms and slate quarries of Gwynedd. Beautifully realised, never idealised, it follows the life of Begw Gruffydd, the little girl who grows from the age of four to nine in the book. With her eye for detail and her ear for dialogue Roberts's portrayal of childhood and childish concerns is charming and convincing. This is a time of friendships and rivalries, sm...

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Granelli's vivid novel is one of testimony. And, praise be, it is a good read.

This massive and lavishly illustrated book is amajor critical study of David Jones, the great painter and poet. It introduces Jones's better known visual achievements and combines them with a vast amount of previously unpublished material--sketches, watercolors, carvings, engravings, inscriptions, and ephemera. The accompanying text places Jones not only in the context of 20th century British art but also in relation to continental movements. ...

This Dylan Thomas biography reveals startling new information on Thomas's stay in Cardiganshire. With updated research and interviews, this work takes a fresh look at the Majoda shooting, the setting of "Under Milk Wood, and the claims that Thomas spied for the British in Iran. Previously unpublished photographs provide an inside look at the surroundings and circle of friends that influenced some of Thomas's most important works.

The publication in 1915 of this collection of short stories caused a literary sensation. Evans' book was highly praised throughout the rest of the world as being a work of art, while in Wales it made him an infamous author. There, the book was the subject of police action and lengthy newspaper correspondence, copies were burned. The reason was Evans' portrayal of the west Wales peasantry as almost subhuman characters, guided by the avarice and...