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.

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Carwyn and the soil under his feet
• Cefneithin’s cradle
• Rhydlewis over the rainbow
• When coal was landlord
• Yellow socks and Miss Dora
• A student by the sea
• Special Coder James
• Chalk and whistle
• Floreat Landubriense
• Renaissance
• The world beyond the gates
• Small screens and pages
• Coaching, Springboks and politics
• Lions and the Long White Cloud
• Carwyn the Trinitarian
• The year of four milestones
• The day the pubs ran dry
• After October: Barbarians and wives
• The rejected coach?
• At the city gates
• Ti voglio bene
• Books, suspension and The Priory
• Amsterdam and the end
• Carwyn In Memoriam
• A mirror and a closet
• Marriage, children and a photograph
• Bibliography