Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs / Literary

Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish-American writer Mary Lavin published sixteen stories in The New Yorker. It was a prolific time for the writer, helped in no small part by her close working relationship...

To tie in with the 100 year anniversary of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby: Death of an Irishman delivers a compelling and new insight into the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the genesis of The Great Gatsby.Fitzgerald...

The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted his life and stimulated his vast body of work.

Marking the centenary of Yeats’s Nobel Prize, a timely guide to the work of Ireland’s national poet and the changing Ireland he lived through.

The autobiography of Cefin Roberts is published by Gwasg y Bwthyn as he prepares to celebrate his 70th birthday in October 2023. A highly readable volume, brimming with stories and entertaining anecdotes,...

Previously unpublished research sheds new light on how Bram Stoker researched and wrote Dracula and the people who inspired his characters.Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing...

Key moments of the life of C.S Lewis.

Fully illustrated introduction to Dylan Thomas, a writer beloved in both Wales and the US. New readers are given a taste of the great man’s life, poems, stories and acclaimed play Under Milk Wood – famously made into a film starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Full of photographs of the places and people that most influenced Thomas.

Josephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh (1896-1952). MacKintosh lived several lives: Best known as Golden Age Crime Fiction writer Tey, she was also successful novelist and playwright Gordon Daviot. During her exceptional career, she had plays on in the West End in London and on Broadway, and even wrote for Hollywood.

Following a series of devastating rejections, Michèle Roberts began keeping an account of her life in the hope it might help mend her shattered sense of self. In this intimate and wryly honest journal she reflects on cities and countryside, loss and love, food, friendships, sisterhood, pleasure and memories.