Real Wrexham

Grahame Davies

“Grahame Davies has a lively mind and a fine turn of phrase, which he puts to good purpose here.” Meic Stephens, Cambria, Feb 08

Wrexham, the biggest town in north Wales gets the ´Real´ treatment from novelist and poet Grahame Davies. Born in Coedpoeth, now much-travelled, he´s still endlessly fascinated by his home town. Mixing personal experience and memory with history, topography, journalism, and an unflagging interest, Davies looks beyond the town´s workaday image and finds something rather special …

The ´Real´ series is edited by Peter Finch and also includes Real Cardiff, Real Cardiff 2 and Real Newport.

Check out a BBC blog review of the book here, and another two blogs here and here!

At Arm´s Length

Geraint Talfan Davies

Devolution to Wales and Scotland may prove to have been the most profound change in the UK in recent years. The consequences are far-reaching, and not just political. Geraint Talfan Davies, media and arts executive for more than three decades, recalls and reflects on the impact of this development for culture and civil society…

 

Real Aberystwyth

Niall Griffiths

Real Swansea

Nigel Jenkins

Welcome to the breezily resurgent, ´ugly, lovely´ city of Swansea. Once a dynamic port and the metallurgical capital of the world, it was later famous for a vibrant artistic life, which included poets Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins, artists Alfred Janes and Ceri Richards and composer Daniel Jones. What does it offer now, in post-industrial Wales?

Series Editor, Peter Finch.

Fishlock’s Sea Stories

Trevor Fishlock

In ’Fishlock’s Sea Stories’, the popular broadcaster and author Trevor Fishlock turns his attention to Wales’s maritime history. In his elegant and informative style Fishlock explores the history of Wales’s relationship with the sea, from shipbuilding and seafaring to smuggling and emigration ...

Flowers & Fables: A Welsh Herbal

Jocelyne Lawton

In ’Flowers & Fables’ Jocelyne Lawton reminds us of a time when, through a mixture of religious belief, country superstition and medical lore, flowers and herbs had an essential place in everyday life. This book recognises a revival of contemporary interest as modern consumers look for organic and holistic approaches to daily life ...

Green Agenda

Robert Minhinnick

In the 1970s, it was ignorance, in the 1980s, enthusiasm, and from the 1990s environmental issues were greeted with a peculiar fatalism. ’Green Agenda’, the first popular volume of its type to be published in Wales, confronts head on our ideas of what constitutes ’the environment’ and how we perceive it ...

A Militant Muse

Harri Webb

Harri Webb (1920-1994) was not only one of the most popular poets in Wales but also a plangent cultural commentator. He wrote extensively on literary and political subjects for more than three decades, in the Western Mail and several magazines ...

More Wild Tracks

Trevor Fishlock

Following the success of the first Wild Tracks book, Trevor Fishlock sets off again in search of Wales and its wonderful surprises. With his keen instinct for history, humour and human interest he presents a dozen new journeys based on his popular HTV series ...