Author: David Jandrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784614577
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A counterpack of 12 copies of Welsh Valleys Phrasebook by David Jandrell. A humorous guide to and phrasebook of Valleys-speak, the non-standard English used in South Wales in everyday conversation. A hugely entertaining book, affectionately poking fun at the grammar, slang terms and culture of the Welsh Valleys.
Welsh Valleys Humour
Author: David Jandrell
Publisher: Ylolfa
ISBN: 9780862437367
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A light-hearted guide to the particular brand of English spoken in the Valleys.
Publisher: Ylolfa
ISBN: 9780862437367
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A light-hearted guide to the particular brand of English spoken in the Valleys.
Tales from my Welsh Village
Author: Ken Smith
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1784616370
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1784616370
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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.
Welsh Valleys Phrasebook - Get by in Valleys-Speak! (Counterpacks)
Author: David Jandrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784614577
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A counterpack of 12 copies of Welsh Valleys Phrasebook by David Jandrell. A humorous guide to and phrasebook of Valleys-speak, the non-standard English used in South Wales in everyday conversation. A hugely entertaining book, affectionately poking fun at the grammar, slang terms and culture of the Welsh Valleys.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784614577
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A counterpack of 12 copies of Welsh Valleys Phrasebook by David Jandrell. A humorous guide to and phrasebook of Valleys-speak, the non-standard English used in South Wales in everyday conversation. A hugely entertaining book, affectionately poking fun at the grammar, slang terms and culture of the Welsh Valleys.
Funny You Should Ask . . .
Author: The QI Elves
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571363385
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
***PRE-ORDER FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK . . . AGAIN: MORE OF YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY THE QI ELVES NOW*** The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE BALLPre-order the next book in this series, 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions, published in paperback on 3rd November.'QI have outdone themselves!' ALAN DAVIES 'Fabulous . . . A cracker of a book!' SUE PERKINS'The QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant.' ZOE BALL'Genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating.' THE SPECTATOR'Hilarious.' DAILY MAILThe QI Elves are the brains behind the enduringly popular BBC TV panel show QI.Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of BBC Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners.Dive into this splendid collection of listeners' unusual questions and some unexpected answers that are sure to make your head spin on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between. Generously sprinkled with extra facts and questions from the Elves, Funny You Should Ask . . . is essential reading for the incurably curious. How much water would you need to put out the Sun?If spiders can walk on the ceiling, why can't they get out of the bath?Why do dads make such bad jokes?Why does red mean 'stop' and green mean 'go'?Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?How do plant seeds know which way is up?Can you fill up a black hole?Who popularised the recorder, and where can I get hold of them?For more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com. You can also follow QI's fact-filled Twitter account @qikipedia and listen to their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.comFor more mind-boggling nuggets of wisdom check out the QI FACTS SERIES
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571363385
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
***PRE-ORDER FUNNY YOU SHOULD ASK . . . AGAIN: MORE OF YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY THE QI ELVES NOW*** The perfect gift for all those big and little kids in your life who ask 'why...?'. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE BALLPre-order the next book in this series, 222 QI Answers to Your Quite Ingenious Questions, published in paperback on 3rd November.'QI have outdone themselves!' ALAN DAVIES 'Fabulous . . . A cracker of a book!' SUE PERKINS'The QI Elves are barnstormingly brilliant.' ZOE BALL'Genuinely useful and endlessly fascinating.' THE SPECTATOR'Hilarious.' DAILY MAILThe QI Elves are the brains behind the enduringly popular BBC TV panel show QI.Every Wednesday the Elves appear on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show where they answer the ponderings and wonderings of BBC Radio 2's most inquisitive listeners.Dive into this splendid collection of listeners' unusual questions and some unexpected answers that are sure to make your head spin on topics ranging from goosebumps to grapefruit, pizza to pirates and everything in-between. Generously sprinkled with extra facts and questions from the Elves, Funny You Should Ask . . . is essential reading for the incurably curious. How much water would you need to put out the Sun?If spiders can walk on the ceiling, why can't they get out of the bath?Why do dads make such bad jokes?Why does red mean 'stop' and green mean 'go'?Can I dig a tunnel to the other side of the Earth?How do plant seeds know which way is up?Can you fill up a black hole?Who popularised the recorder, and where can I get hold of them?For more from the team behind QI, visit qi.com. You can also follow QI's fact-filled Twitter account @qikipedia and listen to their weekly podcast at nosuchthingasafish.comFor more mind-boggling nuggets of wisdom check out the QI FACTS SERIES
Wenglish
Author: Robert Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784612764
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
An updated version of the practical guide to Wenglish, the distinctive dialect of the south Wales valleys - as spoken by Chris Needs. Includes history, social and geographical context, grammar, alphabetical glossary and exercises. Previous edition - 9781847710307.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784612764
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
An updated version of the practical guide to Wenglish, the distinctive dialect of the south Wales valleys - as spoken by Chris Needs. Includes history, social and geographical context, grammar, alphabetical glossary and exercises. Previous edition - 9781847710307.
The Chronicles of Gwynfor Cornetti
Author: Ian Ashton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847716392
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Humorous verse from Wales- discover how to woo a mermaid, and what not to do with a time machine.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847716392
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Humorous verse from Wales- discover how to woo a mermaid, and what not to do with a time machine.
Skagboys
Author: Irvine Welsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393088731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393088731
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Rape of the Fair Country
Author: Alexander Cordell
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473603587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The first volume in Alexander Cordell's classic trilogy of mid-nineteenth century Wales. Set in the grim valleys of the Welsh iron country during the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution, this unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family - a family of hard men and beautiful women, all forced into a bitter struggle with their harsh environment, as they slave and starve for the cruel English ironmasters. But adversity could never still the free spirit of Wales, or quiet its soaring voice, and the Mortymers struggle on even as the iron foundries ravish their homeland and cripple their people. Rape of the Fair Country launched the bestselling career of Alexander Cordell in 1959 and went on to sell millions of copies in seventeen languages throughout the world.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473603587
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The first volume in Alexander Cordell's classic trilogy of mid-nineteenth century Wales. Set in the grim valleys of the Welsh iron country during the turbulent times of the Industrial Revolution, this unforgettable novel begins the saga of the Mortymer family - a family of hard men and beautiful women, all forced into a bitter struggle with their harsh environment, as they slave and starve for the cruel English ironmasters. But adversity could never still the free spirit of Wales, or quiet its soaring voice, and the Mortymers struggle on even as the iron foundries ravish their homeland and cripple their people. Rape of the Fair Country launched the bestselling career of Alexander Cordell in 1959 and went on to sell millions of copies in seventeen languages throughout the world.
Anthracite
Author: Matt Thomas
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1789651484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Deadbeat Kevin Jones finds himself kidnapped to an alternative reality where Wales is the single global superpower. Abducted from his mundane existence by the mysterious Gwen, she tells him there are forces seeking his destruction – he has to run or die. It turns out Kevin’s story holds the key to why all worlds but ours turn out the way they do – Pax Cambria. Featuring a host of mysterious characters, cheese-on-toast based fast food, alt-right druids and the deadly all-knowing Taffia, Anthracite begins the battle to address the woeful lack of Welsh themed comedy cyberpunk. The fearsome Jones-Corporation might run the world but they have a dirty little secret they don't want to get out. Swansea has never looked more like near-future LA. It's already got the rain.
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1789651484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Deadbeat Kevin Jones finds himself kidnapped to an alternative reality where Wales is the single global superpower. Abducted from his mundane existence by the mysterious Gwen, she tells him there are forces seeking his destruction – he has to run or die. It turns out Kevin’s story holds the key to why all worlds but ours turn out the way they do – Pax Cambria. Featuring a host of mysterious characters, cheese-on-toast based fast food, alt-right druids and the deadly all-knowing Taffia, Anthracite begins the battle to address the woeful lack of Welsh themed comedy cyberpunk. The fearsome Jones-Corporation might run the world but they have a dirty little secret they don't want to get out. Swansea has never looked more like near-future LA. It's already got the rain.
Welsh Wit and Humour
Author: David Byron Evans
Publisher: Llygad Gwalch Cyf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher: Llygad Gwalch Cyf
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description