A comprehensive biography of one of the most iconic and popular figures in Wales' recent history. Carwyn James was not only a legend to rugby fans in Wales and further afield, but held a much wider appeal too, in the fields of politics, Welsh literature and culture.
Preface
Introduction
1 Cefneithin’s cradle
2 Rhydlewis over the rainbow
3 When coal was landlord
4 Yellow socks and Miss Dora
5 A student by the sea
6 Special Coder James
7 Chalk and whistle
8 Floreat Landubriense
9 Renaissance
10 The world beyond the gates
11 Small screens and pages
12 Coaching, Springboks and politics
13 Lions and the Long White Cloud
14 Carwyn the Trinitarian
15 The year of four milestones
16 The day the pubs ran dry
17 After October: Barbarians and wives
18 The rejected coach?
19 At the city gates
20 Ti voglio bene
21 Books, suspension and The Priory
22 Amsterdam and the end
23 Carwyn In Memoriam
24 A mirror and a closet
25 Marriage, children and a photograph