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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · Jul 25

Our Autumn Winter 2025 catalogue is here! Browse exciting upcoming titles ➡️📚 bit.ly/CatAW25

Featuring books from @drtimrideout.bsky.social @madelinepotter.bsky.social @physcstudy.bsky.social @maireadcasey.bsky.social @nickalito.bsky.social @profgaryb.bsky.social @andrewjamdavies.bsky.social & more!

AUTUMN WINTER 2025
NEW TITLES
GWASG PRIFYSGOL CYMRU
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS

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The Well-read Naturalist @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social · 1d

Book sale alert! #Booksky

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 1d

📚🚨 SALE 📚🚨

We have 70% off in our new academic year sale!

Celebrate the start of a new term with some fantastic discounts ⤵️

www.uwp.co.uk/sel-sale/

New Academic Year
SALE!

70% Discount
Code: AC25
Offer ends: 31 October

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating conversation about the life and work of Dafydd Elis-Thomas on the most recent episode of Walescast!

Listen to Aled Eirug, author of 'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' from 13:54 📚

🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Cover of the book which features a photo of Dafydd Elis-Thomas

University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 2d

A wonderful evening in Portmeirion last Thursday to celebrate Aled Eirug's new biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas.

Diolch to everyone who attended, to Aled, Elliw Gwawr, Mabon ap Gwynfor, Gwyneth Glyn and Twm Morys for their contributions, and to Portmeirion for such a memorable evening.

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Sam Tabet @drsamtabet.bsky.social · 7d

My book is now available to pre-order in the US with @uchicagopress.bsky.social through @uniwalespress.bsky.social for mid-October release! Message me for 40% off the hardback! Paperback won't be available until next October. Order here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 7d

Join author Demin Duan who will be giving a lecture on the subject of his new book 'Tocqueville Between East and West' at Cardiff University's Law Department today.

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📍 Room 2-29, Cardiff University Law Building

Tocqueville Between East and West cover which features an abstract blue and black swirling illustration.

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Lindsey Decker @lindseydecker.bsky.social · 7d

UWP has a fab horror studies series, which includes my book on British horror film from ~2000-2015. Their books are already pretty affordable for an academic press, and they're currently having a sale that makes them a real steal. www.uwp.co.uk/series/categ...

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 8d

📚🚨 SALE 📚🚨

We have 70% off on over 400 titles in our new academic year sale!

Celebrate the start of a new term with some fantastic offers ⤵️

www.uwp.co.uk/sel-sale/

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 10d

Aled Eirug’s biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas tackles one of modern Welsh politics’ most complex figures, tracing his journey with and beyond Plaid Cymru, his rare talents, charm, and unique capacity to frustrate ✍️ Desmond Clifford

Book review: Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder by Aled Eirug

Desmond Clifford If Plaid Cymru is in government after next year’s election, Dafydd Elis-Thomas will be among those to whom the party owes a debt of gratitude. Plaid was formed a hundred years ago and...

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 10d

Out now!

'Heirs to the Princes' by David Stephenson is a ground-breaking study explores the rise of a Welsh elite of administrators and military figures in the generations after the Edwardian Conquests of 1277–88.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/heirs-t...

‘David Stephenson is a master in making high
level scholarship attractive to non-specialists.
Accessible to a wider audience, this book is a
major, much-needed contribution that breaks
new ground and will have a wide ranging
impact.’

Professor Sara Elin Roberts, Bangor
University

University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 12d

'Tocqueville Between East and West' by Demin Duan is out now!

This book adopts an Eastern or Chinese perspective on Alexis de Tocqueville’s political thought, highlighting the ‘aristocratic’ nature of his theory of freedom.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/tocquev...

‘Demin Duan's bracingly original book presents a
quite new Tocquevillle, for the citizens of China
to think with just as much as those of France or
the United States – a partisan of none of
today's regimes, but a thoughtful critic of them
all.’

John Dunn, Emeritus Professor and Life Fellow
of King’s College, Cambridge

University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 13d

'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' is available now in bookshops and through the link below!

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...

You can also join Aled in conversation at events throughout the autumn.

8 October - Whitchurch Tennis Club, Cardiff
10 October - Mathias Hall, Bangor University
30 October - Storyville, Pontypridd
2 November - Aberaeron Literary Festival
6 November - King’s Yard, Pontcanna, Cardiff
8 November - Wrights, Llanarthne
13 November - Canolfan Cantref, Y Bala
18 November - Palas Print, Caernarfon
19 November - Siop Penrallt, Machynlleth
20 November - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
21 November - Plaid Cymru Society Archives, Cardiff

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 13d

We had a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of 'Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Nation Builder' by Aled Eirug on Tuesday!

Diolch yn fawr to all who attended and especially to Aled, Felicity Evans, Richard Wyn Jones, Mark Drakeford and Elin Jones for their wonderful contributions.

📹 Tane Rogers-Eirug

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 16d

You can also listen to Aled speaking about the life and work of Dafydd Elis-Thomas by catching up on yesterday's BBC Radio Wales Sunday Supplement!

Listen from 38:44 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Book cover showing a photo of Dafydd Elis-Thomas

University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 16d

Learn about Dafydd Elis-Thomas's greatest achievements and understand more about his beliefs in this fascinating interview with author Aled Eirug in @nation.cymru:

nation.cymru/feature/biog...

Biography of Dafydd Elis-Thomas published seven months after his death

When former Plaid Cymru President and Senedd Presiding officer Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas died in February 2025, Aled Eirug’s biography of him was almost complete. The book – Dafydd Elis-Thomas Nation…

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 16d

Discover more about the 'complex and combative Welshman' that Aled Eirug explores in this new biography and how Dafydd Elis-Thomas became 'one of the nation's most influential figures':

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic...

Complex and combative Welshman became one of nation's most influential figures

Plaid Cymru politician Dafydd Elis-Thomas contributed to a book about his life which is now being released months after he died aged 78

www.walesonline.co.uk

University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 16d

Publishing today! 📚

Dafydd Elis-Thomas was one of the most outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years.

In this new biography, Aled Eirug explores the political life of the controversial politician who changed the face of Wales.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/dafydd-...

‘Dafydd Elis-Thomas was an unusually gifted politician who made a genuinely significant contribution, even while managing to infuriate his warmest admirers on a regular basis. By refusing to smooth over the contradictions, this fine biography allows us to better grasp not only the character and motivations of this most mercurial of men, but also the nature of the nation to which he was to devote his life.’

Professor Richard Wyn Jones, author of Putting Wales First: The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 18d

Maverick or establishment stooge? Traitor or nation builder? Aled Eirug speaks to Martin Shipton about the life and legacy of Dafydd Elis-Thomas wp.me/p8Mk4U-161r wp.me/p8Mk4U-161r

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Dr Tim Rideout @drtimrideout.bsky.social · 20d

GOTHIC PRECARITY

Delighted with Professor Nicholas Royle’s endorsement of my first book, Gothic Precarity. His own work, on the uncanny, is a landmark text and informed my own research.

#Gothic #GothicPrecarity @uniwalespress.bsky.social

www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 20d

'Gothic Precarity: Fear and Anxiety in Twenty-First-Century Fiction' by @drtimrideout.bsky.social offers a ground-breaking examination of the Gothic mode's conceptual affinity with notions of neoliberal precarity.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/gothic-...

‘Rideout’s Gothic Precarity is a lucid, excellent and
quietly impassioned study, advancing a new
appreciation of the Gothic in contemporary world
fiction. Historically informed and geographically wide
ranging, it deftly shows how the concerns of Gothic
literature can illuminate the disturbing and destructive
effects of neoliberalism, with particular attention to
the emergence of “a new social class”, the precariat.’

Nicholas Royle, author of ‘The uncanny’ (2003)

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 20d

We are all set up at @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social Gorwelion conference!

Make sure to visit our stand to browse our Celtic and Wales studies books at 20% off 📚

Unable to attend in person? Browse our online stand via the link below!

www.uwp.co.uk/gorwelion-cy...

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 21d

Are you attending the @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social conference this week?

Stop by the UWP stand to browse our wide range of Celtic Studies and Welsh History books available at 20% off 📚

Can't attend in person? Browse our online stand through the link below ⤵️
www.uwp.co.uk/gorwelion-cy...

Astudiaethau Celtaidd Celtic Studies Covers of Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures, Understanding Celtic Religion, Rethinking the Ancient Druids, and Lliaws Rhith

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Calon @calonbooks.bsky.social · 22d

Heno! Tonight!

Pob lwc to Calon author Gwyneth Lewis who has been nominated for the Sky Arts Literature Award!

Make sure to tune in to Sky Arts (channel 36 on Freeview) from 9pm for the results!

Read more here: skyartsawards.sky

Calon @calonbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎇📚 SHORTLISTED! 📚🎇

We are absolutely delighted that Gwyneth Lewis's bold and honest memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts Literature award!

Make sure to tune in to the ceremony on 16 September!

www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/articl...

'Remarkable' Adam Phillips
'Dangerous' M. Wynn Thomas
'Moving' Rowan Williams
'Astonishing' Pascale Petit
'Extraordinary' Tom Bullough
'Compelling, radical and moving' alice hiller

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 22d

This will be excellent.

University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 22d

Join @danielgwydion.bsky.social, M. Wynn Thomas, Rhianwen Daniel, and Black Hawk Hancock in a fascinating panel conversation chaired by Alan Sandry, author of 'Wittgenstein in Swansea'.

📅 8 October
🕒 3pm
📍 Tabernacle URC Church, Newton Road, Mumbles

Dydd Mercher 8 Hydref
Wednesday 8 October
15:00-16:00
Eglwyd URC y Tabernacl, Heol Newton, Membwls, SA3 4AR

Tabernacle URC Church, Newton Road, Mumbles, SA3 4AR

Wittgenstein in Swansea Philosophy and Legacy

Mae panel nodelig yn cynnig esboniadau ac asesiadau o gyfnod a gwaith Wittgenstein yn Abertawe.
A distinguished panel offer explanations and assessments of Wittgenstein's time and work at Swansea.
Panel: Daniel G. Williams, M. Wynn Thomas, Rhianwen Daniel, Black Hawk Hancock,
Cadair gan/Chaired by Alan Sandry

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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 22d

Select tickets – 'Wittgenstein in Swansea': Daniel G. Williams, M. Wynn Thomas, Rhianwen Daniel, Black Hawk Hancock. Chair: Alan Sandry – Tabernacle URC Church, Newton Road, Mumbles

'Wittgenstein in Swansea': Daniel G. Williams, M. Wynn Thomas, Rhianwen Daniel, Black Hawk Hancock. Chair: Alan Sandry – Tabernacle URC Church, Newton Road, Mumbles, Wed 8 Oct 2025 - Wittgenstein in…