Author: Ken Smith
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1784616370
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.
Author: Cat Weatherill
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785622991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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In this diverse collection of short stories, various young characters encounter kings and trolls, wild horses and rainbow-coloured sheep as they learn to find the magic in the stories all around them. With a tale based on the story of Rhiannon from the Mabinogion and another set in Hay-on-Wye.
Author: Dorothy Edwards
Publisher: Honno Press
ISBN: 9781906784294
Category : Equality
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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As summer fades, young telegraph clerk Arnold Nettle arrives in an unspecified English village. Sickly and shy, he hopes that the season will be far less damaging to his frail disposition than another winter spent in town. Repulsed by the crude behaviour of his working-class landlady and her brood, he becomes enamoured with the middle-class Neran family, who live in a large white house on the hill. But they're not without problems of their own...
Author: Peter Stevenson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750992700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
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A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an 'Indian Princess', Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff and, all the while, mountain women practise Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft. These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native and enslaved people who had long been living there, and those curious travellers who returned to find their roots in the old country. They were explorers, miners, dreamers, hobos, tourists, farmers, radicals, showmen, sailors, soldiers, witches, warriors, poets, preachers, prospectors, political dissidents, social reformers, and wayfaring strangers. The Cherokee called them: ' the Moon-Eyed People'.
Author: W. Jenkyn Thomas
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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A collection of 83 short fairy tales, including; The Lady of the Lake; Arthur in the Cave; The Curse of Pantannas; The Drowning of the Bottom Hundred; Elidyr's Sojurn in Fairy-Land; Rhys and Llywelyn; Lowri Dafydd Earns a Purse of Gold; The Llanfabon Changeling; Why the Red Dragon is the Emblem of Wales; Llyn Cwm Llwch; The Adventures of Three Farmers; Cadwaladr and His Goat; The Fairy Wife; Einion and the Lady of the Greenwood; The Green Isles of the Ocean; March's Ears; The Fairy Harp; Guto Bach and the Fairies; Ianto's Chase; The Stray Cow, and many more.
Author: Ken Smith
Publisher: Tales from My Welsh Village
ISBN: 9781784618261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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A second humorous novel based on the outrageous antics of local characters from the author's early life in the South Wales Valleys near Merthyr. By the author of the very popular and funny Tales from My Welsh Village (Y Lolfa, 2018), now in its third impression.
Author: Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006132240
Category : Ghost stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Author: Jane Aaron
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326099
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day. Informed by postcolonial and psychoanalytic theory, it argues that many of the fears encoded in Welsh Gothic writing are specific to the history of Welsh people, telling us much about the changing ways in which Welsh people have historically seen themselves and been perceived by others. The first part of the book explores Welsh Gothic writing from its beginnings in the last decades of the eighteenth century to 1997. The second part focuses on figures specific to the Welsh Gothic genre who enter literature from folk lore and local superstition, such as the sin-eater, cŵn Annwn (hellhounds), dark druids and Welsh witches. Contents Prologue: ‘A Long Terror’ PART I: HAUNTED BY HISTORY 1. Cambria Gothica (1780s–1820s) 2. An Underworld of One’s Own (1830s–1900s). 3. Haunted Communities (1900s–1940s). 4. Land of the Living Dead (1940s–1997). PART II: ‘THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE CELTIC TWILIGHT’ 5. Witches, Druids and the Hounds of Annwn. 6. The Sin-eater Epilogue: Post-devolution Gothic Notes Select Bibliography Index
Author: Jn Welsh
Publisher: Montlake Romance
ISBN: 9781542034777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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A hot young physical therapist plays a risky game with an Irish soccer player--and his best friend--in this transatlantic romance from award-winning author JN Welsh. Ayanna Crawford isn't afraid to get physical; in fact, it's her job. A world-renowned physical therapist who works too hard, Ayanna embarks on a trip to Ireland before an upcoming conference. Finally, a chance to play as hard as she works...and maybe find an Irish boo to keep her company. After a long day of sightseeing, Ayanna hits it off with tall drink of ale Eoghan O'Farrell. Then there's the freckled, blue-eyed Shane MacCallum, a soccer team liaison who Ayanna feels a strong urge to "liaise" with. But not only do the two men work for the same team--they're best mates. When an injury forces the three lovebirds to work in close proximity, Ayanna finds herself in the clutch. With careers and hearts on the line, Ayanna must work through her fears and desires to make a choice--or find herself alone on the pitch.
Author: Richard Llewellyn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439164932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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"How Green Was My Valley" is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.
