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Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past
Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past is an informative, immersive book, into which the author weaves poetry, dusting old stories with magic. …
Read moreThe Works of Gwerful Mechain [A Broadview Anthology of British Literature edition]
As every schoolgirl or boy lucky enough to be introduced to Chaucer knows, sex and the sacred were sweaty bedfellows during the Medieval period. If th …
Read moreWelsh Writing in English, 1536–1914, The First Four Hundred Years (The Oxford Literary History of Wales: Volume 3)
In 1811, Harriet Browne wrote some original verse on folded sheets of paper, the subject being Deganwy Castle. Her Liverpool family moved to Denbighsh …
Read moreThe Lives and Extraordinary Adventures of Fifteen Tramp Writers from the Golden Age of Vagabondage
Jim Phelan, in collection of Ian Cutler An extensive list of words for people of no fixed abode in the introduction to this book reminds us how …
Read moreWell-laid Hedges and Cider
‘Coming to Mrs Wallet’s?’ Tom Johns was lighting his bicycle lamp, shielding the rather damp match that he had taken from a small tin and struck on hi …
Read moreBarry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground c1790–1965
Some British seaside resorts double as lazy jokes. Skegness, Blackpool and Clacton-on-Sea are names that trip off the tongue when there’s chatter abou …
Read moreLest We Forget
The recent actions of Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters tearing down statues of the slave owner Edward Colston in Bristol has drawn public attention …
Read moreEarly Twentieth-century Welsh Plays in English, Vol 1: ‘A Dirty Broth’
The first volume of a two-book series devoted to Welsh writing for the theatre, A Dirty Broth, contains the complete texts of just three plays. You m …
Read moreSaints and Lodgers: Poems of WH Davies
I am the Poet Davies, William, I sin without a blush or blink: I am a man that lives to eat; I am a man that lives to drink Thus, with the easy …
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