The Caves of Alienation

Stuart Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• At the centre of Stuart Evans' ambitious novel is Michael Caradock, a well-known writer whose life has ended violently on an isolated Welsh island. Th... Lees meer

The Voices of the Children

George Ewart Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A novel based on George Ewart Evans' childhood in South Wales. It describes the reactions of a growing boy to his home environment and the changes wit... Lees meer

Country Dance

Margiad Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• In this love story the rural way of life is no idyll, but a savage and exacting struggle for survival. Lees meer

Alone to the Alone

Gwyn Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales | nr. 19
• The Alone to the Alone was first published in 1947. It came, Gwyn Thomas recalled, as the "last gasp of the first violent mood" of creation with which... Lees meer

A Kingdom

James Hanley

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• An elderly farmer dies, leaving the kingdom he had ruled over so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. The novel charts the courses whereby ea... Lees meer

Sport

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Sport is one of our consuming passions, and its literature is rich and extensive. This original and enjoyable anthology brings together for the very f... Lees meer

The Volunteers

Raymond Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A worker is killed in the striking coalfields of Wales. Some months later, a government minister thought to be connected with the death is shot. Lewis... Lees meer

Cwmardy

Lewis Jones

• Paperback | Library of Wales
• Cwmardy paints a graphic portrait of the casual exploitation, tragedy and violence as well as the political hope and humanity of South Wales industria... Lees meer

The Battle to the Weak

Hilda Vaughan

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Star-crossed lovers struggle against their families, upbringings and values in Hilda Vaughan's first and arguably finest novel, The Battle to the Weak... Lees meer

We Live

Lewis Jones

• Paperback | Library of Wales
• We Live paints a graphic portrait of the casual exploitation, tragedy and violence as well as the political hope and humanity of South Wales industria... Lees meer

The Great God Pan/The Shining Pyramid/The White People

Arthur Machen

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A sensation when first published in 1894, this frightening story involves evil scientists and the women that become monsters at their hands. An experi... Lees meer

Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve

Dannie Abse

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a classic. In this delightful autobiograph... Lees meer

The Withered Root

Rhys Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales | nr. 12
• Edwards was a graduate of University College, Cardiff and although spent time in Vienna, Florence and London this was her permanent home. Both Davies ... Lees meer

The Water-Castle

Brenda Chamberlain

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A new edition of a classic originally published in 1964, this is a journal of love, romance, and discord in 1950s postwar Germany. As Welsh artist and... Lees meer

I Sent a Letter to My Love

Bernice Rubens

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A story about a woman who makes a final bid for freedom and happiness. All her life she has seen herself as ugly and unattractive and is resigned to a... Lees meer

Border Country

Raymond Williams

• Paperback | Library of Wales
• Presents the second volume in the "Library of Wales" series. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Matthew, a lecturer ... Lees meer

In the Green Tree

Alun Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Through his letters home and six short stories. Alun Lewis paints a vibrant picture of life in India as a British serviceman during World War II. Inti... Lees meer

Jampot Smith

Jeremy Brooks

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• In 'Jampot Smith', Jeremy Brooks makes one of the best attempts to recapture the fastidiousness and privacy of the very young. Lees meer

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

W H Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A successful book in its time, now regarded as a classic, Autobiography of a Super-tramp relays the experiences of a young, destitute Welshman in Amer... Lees meer

Story

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales | nr. 1
• The Library of Wales' Story anthologies feature the very best of Welsh short fiction, written amid the political, social, and economic turbulence of 2... Lees meer

So Long, Hector Bebb

Ron Berry

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• In a sparse and uncompromising style, this tale tells the story of a boxer from Cymmer in South Wales ready to make his comeback. Abe has ensured that... Lees meer

Young Emma

William Henry Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• At 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... Lees meer

The Dark Philosophers

Gwyn Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• Incest, murder, delusion, and a devastating, tragic humor mark these three novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946: The Dark Philosophers, Oscar , and... Lees meer

Congratulate the Devil

Adrian Davies

• Paperback | Engels | Library of Wales
• A happiness drug is found to be intolerable to society. This book describes the process by which its disseminators are hounded to death. Lees meer