Cambria Books - Böcker

The feisty illegitimate Anna was a determined girl. At 17 she deserted her foster parents and ran away from home to find the father she never knew. Destitute in the steel-making town of Dowlais she married for security when she was told the lie th...

Läs mer »

John Lionel Stretton, born on 20th September 1860, was the third generation of surgeons in the family. Following his grandfather, William Birch of Barton-under-Needwood, he started his medical career as apprentice to his father, Samuel, in 1877, b...

Läs mer »

This is a novel about teenagers facing real life challenges. Read it and discover if Lauren is strong enough to surf her way through minefields towards happiness and success. Lauren, a 15 year-old English schoolgirl, is forced to stay with her gra...

Läs mer »

A novel of Berlin, living with the Bomb, Punk, protest and alternatives, set in West Berlin in the 1980s, when the city was a focal point of the Cold War and surrounded by the Berlin Wall and Communist East Germany. The missiles are armed and wait...

Läs mer »

About the Book This is the first new and unexpurgated translation of Meddygon Myddfai, The Physicians of Myddfai, for over 150 years. The original mediaeval manuscripts are unique, being written in Middle Welsh, whereas across England and the rest...

Läs mer »

In 2005 Laurence founded Avagio Limited, a publishing company specialising in consumer and business magazines which were distributed regionally throughout the UK. Despite some very challenging times during the financial crisis of 2008 which saw th...

Läs mer »

Blessed Are The Cracked. In 'Donald's Cat', Kay Jones becomes trapped in an abandoned explosives store while searching for a missing cat. As the air runs out and she prepares to meet her demons, more recent unpleasant memories add to her trauma. A...

Läs mer »

Who this book is for?This book is for anyone who wants or needs to learn how to build their business via networking.It will save you time, effort and money.If you are starting out in business and need to find prospects, leads and clients through w...

Läs mer »

In The Tinker Girl, a family saga about women for women, the protagonist Cate, battles against poverty, gender and class to save a highland estate and its people from ruin. The 1899 setting is Kevinishe, a village on the west coast of Scotland, ru...

Läs mer »

What does one know of forbears, say two hundred years ago? After eight generations or so, and over two hundred connections? Sad, happy and doubtful connections perhaps. And what of those thousands who preceded? This is the tale of George Gunner an...

Läs mer »

This first collection of poems by Clare Maynard, written over a ten year period, reflect on the author's journeys in Europe, including Berlin, Wales, Italy and Spain. Her unique visual language captures the changing seasons and cultures of both ru...

Läs mer »

This long-forgotten factional novel was the literary sensation of its day. The Poet Laureate Robert Southey said of it 'Truth is often stranger than falsehood; and so it is in this case'. This is the account of the privateer William Williams's adv...

Läs mer »

The Baltic Falcon is more than just a novel of the Great War.It is a story common to all wars and a romance without physical boundaries or borders of time. In the immediate aftermath of the Great War, in 1919, the Baltic became a highly contested ...

Läs mer »

Marcism Today brings together some old favourites and some previously unpublished poems. Sometimes quirky, sometimes poignant, always accessible, this collection, written in his own unique style,celebrates Marc Mordey's honest, moving (and occasio...

Läs mer »

Knotwork is a collection of 12 violin duets composed by Helen Adam, all based on Welsh traditional music.The tunes include well known song melodies as well as lesser known dance tunes. The original melody is given in full as well as the duets in c...

Läs mer »

There is a tradition of biographical storytelling in historiography that goes back through Lytton Strachey, John Aubrey and Gaius Suetonius to Plutarch. Jonathan Morgan's book is in that tradition. He has described a set of politicians from Wales ...

Läs mer »

This book is a compendium of facts relating to the Commonwealth Games since its inception in 1930 with an indication of how it all began. It is particularly focussed on Wales tracing its history and the achievements of its athletes in the 20th Cen...

Läs mer »

This book by Myrddin John traces the history of the Commonwealth Games. His involvement with the Commonwealth Games commenced with his selection to represent Wales at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Cardiff following which he gat...

Läs mer »

This book of original poems is a tribute to Dylan Thomas on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1914. It follows Dylan around Gower, in Port Eynon, Horton, Three Cliffs Bay, Rhossili, Reynoldston, Llangennith and on Cefn ...

Läs mer »

Gerwyn is a little man in all respects, short, quiet, unambitious and a great worrier. All he wants in life is an upgrade in his job that will bring in a little more money for his family. However, he was an unlucky man and was plagued by many occu...

Läs mer »

Serving Policeman Hywel Griffiths, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, started to write poems in response to people coming into the office everyday complaining about trivialities. Rather than shouting "Get a Life" - Hywel thought that poetry mig...

Läs mer »

This bewitching drama for young adults set in the very near future entwines Celtic myth and climate-changed destinies to answer the fundamental question: can we escape our apparent fate? If our lives are governed by forces outside our control, whe...

Läs mer »

A humane  memoir , written with poignancy, humour and satire, of the influences that bind us to places and time. Haunted by shadows of an unfulfilled childhood, redemption is found through education . The insights into working-class life in t...

Läs mer »

Dylan Thomas' life: idealism, turbulence, the absurd. In this tribute to Dylan, his life on the Gower Peninsula in Wales is imagined here poetically in the movement of a wave, the build-up, the swell, the rise, the disintegration, the spindrift, t...

Läs mer »

When twins Cass and Jo leave the bright lights of Paris and London to meet their godmother's solicitor in a small, sleepy Welsh seaside town, they don't expect their lives will change at all. Instead, they find themselves embroiled in the weird an...

Läs mer »

The origins of this book are based on the many attempts to determine the location of the last battle fought by Boudica against the Romans - a mystery that has fascinated historians over the centuries. As a result of recent archaeological discoveri...

Läs mer »

Solving the Grim Equation considers how globalisation increases corporate power and marginalises communities, how fossil fuel use accelerates climate change, and why material standards of living will have to decline in all countries where populati...

Läs mer »

RAWSON: the name of the infamous Patagonian prison in the town originally called, in Welsh, Trerawson, Rawson Town. What was it like to be in Argentina's toughest jail during the years of the Dirty War, between 1976 and 1983? Pablo Bohoslavsky des...

Läs mer »

Phil Humphries suffered for years with a severe debilitating affliction or phobia - aviophobia, the fear of flying. This is shared apparently by millions of people worldwide. This book begins by briefly following the author's career as a rugby pla...

Läs mer »

In the battle against management, Dr Paul Thomas is a man on a mission! As seen in the BBC TV & Radio documentary 'Ban the Boss' documentary series. A mission to support forward-thinking, progressive and 'human' business organisations by helping t...

Läs mer »