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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and cattle of a working Welsh farm.
She regards this modest...
4) Framed
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the National Gallery is flooded, the stuffy curator is forced to flee to the mountains of Wales, along with the paintings. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets the townspeople.
5) Bad blood
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Lorna Sage delivers the tragicomic memoirof her escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-WWII Britain-and thestory of the weddings and relationships that defined three generations of herfamily-in Bad Blood, an internationalbestseller and the winner of the coveted Whitbread Biography Award. Readers ofbooks like Angela's Ashes and The Liar's Club as well as fans ofSage's own lucid and penetrating writing will be captivated by...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of H Is for Hawk, an intimate memoir of belonging and loss, a cultural meditation, and a mesmerizing travelogue through the landscapes and language of Wales. Hiraeth, literally "long field" in Welsh but famously hard to translate, means far more than its English approximation of "homesickness." It is something like a bone-deep longing for an irretrievable place, person, or time-an acute awareness of the presence of absence. In The Long...
13) The world is a wedding: in which the unexpected nature of reality surprises Mister Wilfred Price
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This comedy of manners follows newlyweds Wilfred Price and Flora Myffanwy as they navigate married life, while Wilfred and his first wife, Grace, try to manage secrets from their shared past.
1926, Wales. Wilfred Price is married to Flora Myfanwy and trying to be the perfect husband. His efforts only intensify when he learns that Flora is expecting. But something doesn't feel right to Flora: she doesn't feel at home. Meanwhile Grace-- to whom Wilfred...
14) Visions of Wales
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"Visions of Wales offers breathtaking aerial views of this castle-filled country of contradictions, from the southern tip at Cardiff to the summit of Mount Snowdon. Set to traditional music, including the famed Welsh men's choruses, with informative narration about the region's history and culture, Visions of Wale introduces the treasures of Great Britain's western annex"--Container.
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