The first lockdown in Wales was one of the most significant events in recent Welsh history. Will Hayward records some of the personal hardships and difficulties suffered by Welsh people. He also explores the positive ways people responded to their situation, and how the Welsh government managed the crisis. Available now. 

By turns laugh out loud funny and deeply sad, The Amazingly Astonishing Story is award-winning TV writer Lucy Gannon's childhood memoir, a frank and surprising look into a child’s tumultuous mind. "The saddest happiest funniest book I’ve read for ages..." – Dawn French. Available now. 

Daryl Leeworthy's brand new biography celebrates the achievements of this pioneering television writer, evolutionary anthropologist and political activist, reestablishing her position as a significant figure in the canon of English language writing from Wales. Available now. 

In The Owl House, Daniel Butler paints a vivid portrait of one of the most remote and sparsely populated areas of Britain, through his relationship with two barn owls which nested at his ancient farmhouse in rural mid-Wales. Available now.

This award-winning study by Colin Hughes is a wonderful evocation of Italian immigration in south Wales from the turn of the century to the postwar years, when the Italian café was central to life in many small communities in the Valleys. With foreword by Welsh-Italian actor Victor Spinetti, Lime, Lemon & Sarsaparilla is a revealing history of our recent past. Available now.

“A splendid and sensitively-written account..." – Hywel Francis

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