Being a story of the first Eisteddfod as told by the people of the court. It is Christmas 1176 at the Court of the Lord Rhys in Cardigan Castle, preparations are under way for one of the most importa.....

This is an unusual story. Written in twelfth-century France, it puts a wide range of characters on stage, from a duke of extreme - not to say crazy - nobility to a mere juggler, Daurel, who displays g.....

When Thomas Becket in 1170 exasperated his opponents to such an extent that they killed him, it was only natural that all sorts of writers should at once seize upon this sensational topic. The first .....

Thomas Love Peacock records in his diary for August 6, 1818: "Could not read or work for scheming my romance - rivers, castles, forests, abbeys, monks, maids, kings and banditti dancing before me like.....

The Reverend H. J. Whitfeld visited the Scilly Isles in the middle of the nineteenth century when the art of story-telling was still alive. As he says in his preface "I came for two or three weeks,.....

Translation into blank verse, introduction and notes by Janet Shirley. Highly commended and first runner-up for the 1998 European Poetry in Translation prize. Accessible and accurate. Typeset by the B.....

This book recounts episodes in the life of a geologist, one Chalwyn James, an impressionable youth from the Welsh Border. Adventures range widely over five continents. Many are set in the maelstrom.....

Timeless wisdom and recent science co-star in this book because, amazingly, they paint similar pictures of our world. A summary of some of the highest wisdom is laid next to science’s current unders.....

Not since the day when St. Patrick preached his first sermon in Dichu's barn has there been any event of greater importance to Ireland than the coming of the Normans to her shores. The importance of t.....

In a collection of unedited odds and ends from Borrow's papers bearing upon Wales, and dating from various periods of his career, there is one insignificant looking sheet on whose backs and lines are .....