City of God, composed in the early fifth century, is one of the great classics of western culture. Augustine was a teacher of rhetoric before he was bishop of Hippo…

Explains just how and why Augustine came to abandon a successful career and the personal enjoyments of a largely secular existence to follow a life of prayer and study, leading…

The author turns to the real winters of 2009 and 2010. In their extremity they redefined all the seasons for her. Nature asserted itself and renewed the environment for the…

Explores water as memory and meaning, the bearer of stories that well up from a personal and collective past to return us to the language of the imagination in which…

This year, to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, we are privileged to publish Gillian Clarke’s story The Christmas Wren, written in response to Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas…

The time known as Late Antiquity (c.300-c.800) was a fascinatingly diverse and important period which saw the ‘Fall of Rome’ and the growth of Christianity and Islam. Gillian Clark explores…

Menna Elfyn is the best-known, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. This bilingual edition of her later poetry includes work from Cell Angel (1996) and Blind Man’s…

This book encapsulates work done in the DIRC project (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Dependability), bringing together a range of disciplinary approaches - computer science, sociology and software engineering - to…