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It takes a different view of the history of Wales, examining a panorama of different emotions and experiences – laughter, happiness, fear, anger, adventure, lust, loneliness, anxiety – to give an entertaining and exciting new history to Wales. a wide range of sources are used to present the ambitions and anxieties which drove and destroyed Welsh people The book’s literary style and the fact that it follows earlier successful studies by the author should ensure an audience.

Set in a rural Welsh village in the late 1950s comes a romantic comedy with great historical detail and larger than life characters that will make you laugh out loud! John Prosser has potential. Everyone knows this - except John, whose indolence and lack of self-confidence hamper his progress. He constantly requires a ‘kick up the backside’, sometimes from his hardworking parents, and sometimes from Miss ‘Smarty Pants’, Heulwen Hughes, a cerebral beauty he is captivated by whenever circumstances push them together. Despite this, John shows little sign of wanting to move on. There’s security to be had in the close-knit Welsh village of Brynteilo, its occupants numbering various branches of his extended family, and the host of eccentric and badly-behaved characters provide more than enough amusement. Further still, John feels a need to help his ageing parents - and a need for the coffin-maker’s daughter and village temptress, Rianna Lewis... Finally John makes the break and finds success, professionally and romantically, both in his home country and abroad. But life is determined to throw him a few curveballs along the way! A romantic comedy with a difference, Cockles and Muscles attempts to recreate the living conditions of the late 1950s, and aims to represent the Welsh people’s hard but interesting lives from that period before those voices are lost.

Nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, the small town of Milky Peaks is nominated for 'Britain's Best Town'. However, the award brings with it a dark, insidious right-wing agenda, threatening the heart and soul of the town. Can the community club together to save the identity of their beloved Milky Peaks?

Dyma hanes John Davies, Bwlch-llan, yn ei eiriau ei hun - dyn sydd wedi gwneud cyfraniad aruthrol i fywyd, hanes a diwylliant Cymru ers dros hanner cnarif. Mae yma gofnod gwerthfawr o hanes Rhondda'r 1940au, bywyd cefn gwlad Ceredigion yn y 1950au a thwf cenedlaetholdeb a sefydlu Cymdeithas yr Iaith yn y 1960au hyd at sefydlu'r Cynulliad. Cawn ddarllen am ei berthynas â myfyrwyr Pantycelyn yn ystod ei gyfnod fel Warden yno, ac am lafur blynyddoedd o waith ar gyfrolau megis "Hanes Cymru", "Gwyddoniadur Cymru yr Academi Gymreig" a "Cymru: 100 lle i'w gweld cyn marw". Ond mae'r gyfrol yn dangos ochr arall i'r ffigwr cyhoeddus, yr hanesydd gwybodus a'r darlithydd craff. Bu'n rhaid iddo oresgyn rhagfarnau cymdeithasol a dygymod ag anawsterau yn ei fywyd personol. Ac eto, mae ffraethineb yn y straeon, yn enwedig yn hanes ei deithiau tramor i wledydd fel India a'r Unol Daleithiau, Ffrainc a'r Almaen. Dyma ddyn teulu annwyl, wedi gwirioni ar ei blant a'i wyrion, a dyn sydd wrth ei fodd yn yr ardd.

One third of the population is estimated to experience insomnia and it is widely recognised to have far-reaching affects on the sufferer's health, relationships, work and happiness. However, there is often very little help available. Increasing concern over sleeping pills has led many sufferers to look for alternative approaches to aid better sleep. This book provides clear, practical advice to help deal with the problem of insomnia, encourage natural sleep, identify causes and provides information on natural remedies for poor sleep

Hunangofiant y chwaraewr rygbi chwedlonol, John Davies, wedi ei gyd-ysgrifennu gan y sylwebydd rygbi, Wyn Gruffydd. Bu John yn un o gewri rheng flaen Castell-nedd a Llanelli am flynyddoedd lawer, enillodd 34 cap i Gymru, ac mae'n cael ei gydnabod fel un o chwaraewyr caletaf a mwyaf cyson y gem dros yr ugain mlynedd diwethaf.

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