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A reader in the Reading Room

5 March 2024

With the Six Nations Championship drawing to an exciting climax, it provides a timely opportunity to showcase some of our recent book acquisitions about Welsh rugby along with our recent acquisitions  about other topics.

You can browse our copies of any of the books listed below in our reading rooms. You will however, need a readers’ ticket to gain admittance to the reading room. Applying and receiving a readers’ ticket is a quick and easy process. Learn more about how to register for a reader's ticket.

Rugby

O Clermont i Nantes / Stephen Jones, gyda Lynn Davies, Y Lolfa, 2007

Fighting to speak : rugby, rage & redemption / Mark Jones, with Anthony Bunko, St. David’s Press, 2022

Welsh rugby in the 1970s / Carolyn Hitt, Y Lolfa, 2023 

Belonging : the autobiography / Alun Wyn Jones, with Tom Fordyce, Macmillan, 2021

Stephen Jones : the thinking man's game : my story / Stephen Jones with Simon Roberts, Mainstream, 2010

The Six Nations rugby miscellany / John White, Carlton Books, 2016

The Six Nations rugby songbook, Y Lolfa, 2010

A fan's guide to Wales and the Six Nations 2012 / Tim Lewis, Lisa Walsh and Simon Farrington, Media Wales, 2012

The Welsh Grand Slam 2012 : how Wales won the Six Nations Championship / Paul Rees, Mainstream, 2012

Welsh Rugby Union centenary year 1980-1981 : gala opening at the national ground - Cardiff Arms Park, Saturday 26th July 1980, CSP Printing, 1981

Welsh rugby : the crowning years, 1968-80 / Clem Thomas and Geoffrey Nicholson, Collins, 1980

A touch of glory : 100 years of Welsh rugby / Alun Richards, Michael Joseph, 1980

History and general works

60 o adeiladau rhyfeddol yr Ymddiredolaeth Genedlaethol / Dr Elizabeth Green, Ymddiredolaeth Genedlaethol, 2022

Mynydd Epynt a’r troad allan yn 1940 / Herbert Hughes, Y Lolfa, 2023

The naval history of Wales / J. D. Davies, History Press, 2023

Railways and industry on the Brecon & Merthyr Railway / John Hodge & Ray Caston, Pen & Sword Transport, 2023

Official guide to the Wales Coast Path : Pembrokeshire, Cardigan to Amroth, Northern Eye, 2021.

Calypso & Coal: The Story of Black Miners in South Wales / [edited] by Rebecca and Paul Eversley, Historic Dock Project, 2023

Essays

Shaping art in Wales: David Bell, Kathleen Armistead and the modern artist / Ceri Thomas, H'mm Foundation, 2023

Biographies

War doctor : surgery on the front line / David Nott, Abrams Press, 2020

Allegorizings / Jan Morris, Faber and Faber, 2021

A Pretoria boy : the story of South Africa’s ‘public enemy number one’ / Peter Hain, Icon Books, 2021

Children

Pedwar bachgen bach o Gymru : ffrindiau a gelynion / Lyndon Jeremiah, Cyhoeddwyr Jeremiah, 2021

Guto a dreigiau’r nos / Caryl Lewis, Y Lolfa, 2023

Fiction

Sêr y nos yn gwenu / Casia Wiliam, Y Lolfa, 2023

Coblyn o sioe / Myfanwy Alexander, Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2023

Ar adain cân / Gareth Thomas, Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2023

Pig Boy : a retelling of Culhuwch and Olwen from The Mabinogion / Michael Harvey, Leaf by Leaf, 2023

Poetry

Cerddi Rob Tycam / Robert Jones, Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2021

Cariad / golygwyd gan Mari Lovgreen, Cyhoeddiadau Barddas, 2023

Gair o galondid : Casgliad o gerddi, caneuon a dyfyniadau i godi calon / Caryl Parry Jones, Gwasg y Bwthyn, 2022

Gwrthryfel / Uprising : an anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Wales / edited by Mike Jenkins, Culture Matters Co-operative Ltd, 2022

Hymnal / Julia Bell, Parthian Books, 2023

Republic / Nerys Williams, Seren, 2023

A470 : Poems for the Road = A470 : Cerddi'r Ffordd / golygwyd gan = edited by Sian Northey, Ness Owen, Arachne Press, 2022.

Football

A league of our own : the Cymru Premier story 1992-93 to 2022-23 / Mark Langshaw, St. David’s Press, 2023


Euros Evans
Cataloguing Assistant

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