BOOKS

Gomer Press is Wales’s largest independent publisher, supplying books from Wales, about Wales, in both Welsh and English language.

They publish over 120 new titles every year, for children and adults, in both languages.

For more info visit www.gomer.co.uk

Use it or lose it!
Please support your local book seller. If you find a book you like online ask your local bookshop to source it.

You’ll be supporting a local business and, in turn, helping to preserve the quality of our high streets.
  There’s only 2 Tony Cotteys
£14.99 (hardback)
ISBN 9781843239246




Tony Cottey is one of Britain’s most accomplished and yet unrecognized sportsmen.

He played professional football at Swansea City, before moving to cricket, where he went on to carve a long and successful career in championshipwinning Glamorgan and Sussex teams. This is the tale of a trier, of someone who fought to forge a career in the sport that he loved. He reminds us that ‘work hard, play hard’ remains one of the most characteristic mottos of sportsmen everywhere, and treats us to an honest and inspirational account of a life in sport.

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Isabella Wella and the Kenfig Pirates
£4.99 (paperback)
ISBN 9781843239185




When Isabella Wella decides to brighten up a dull, rainy afternoon by playing hide and seek, little does she imagine where the game will take her.

Hiding in her grandmother’s attic she finds a map – not any old map, but a treasure map! With the help of her grandmother, she sets about solving the clues and searching for the lost pirate treasure. But will they find the treasure in time? Or will Old Man Brunt and his bloodhound Ghengis put them off the trail for good?

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Grav - In his Own Words
£14.99 (hardback)
ISBN 9781843238157




Grav in his Own Words is the biography of one of Welsh rugby’s most missed stars.

Before his tragic death last year, Ray Gravell was in the process of writing his autobiography with Gomer Press – by combining this manuscript and transcripts of various radio broadcasts and interviews that he gave over the years, close friend and editor Alun Wyn Bevan has complied a look at Grav’s life through his own words. *A percentage of the selling price of the book will be donated to the Ray Gravell Trust Fund to be distributed to various charities that were dear to him.

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The Wright Taste Recipes & Other Stories
£19.99 (hardback)
ISBN 9781843239178




Have you ever wondered where the food on your plate actually came from?

The Wright Taste follows restaurateur Simon Wright’s journey into the unfamiliar territory of livestock farmer, in order to trace the passage of his restaurant’s meat from animal to plate.

Over a series of months, he filmed a series for BBC Wales (to be broadcast Autumn 08) where he reared a selection of animals on his small-holding in the Welsh countryside, with the intention of serving them at his restaurant and sharing his recipes with the reader.

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