Tales from my Welsh Village
Title | Tales from my Welsh Village PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Smith |
Publisher | Y Lolfa |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2018-07-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1784616370 |
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.
More Tales from My Welsh Village
Title | More Tales from My Welsh Village PDF eBook |
Author | Ken Smith |
Publisher | Tales from My Welsh Village |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-10-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781784618261 |
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.
Three More Tales
Title | Three More Tales PDF eBook |
Author | A. M. F. Paget |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Welsh Fairy Book
Title | The Welsh Fairy Book PDF eBook |
Author | William Jenkyn Thomas |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Fairy tales |
ISBN |
If You Liked School, You'll Love Work
Title | If You Liked School, You'll Love Work PDF eBook |
Author | Irvine Welsh |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 400 |
Release | 2007-09-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393343669 |
Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, is up to his old tricks with his new work of transgressive short fiction. Irvine Welsh's first short-story collection since his debut work The Acid House presents five extraordinary stories, which remind us that he is a master of the short form, a brilliant storyteller, and—unarguably—one of today's funniest and most subversive writers. In "Rattlesnakes" three young Americans, lost in the desert, are accosted by two armed Mexicans. A Korean chef and a Chicago socialite find themselves connected through the disappearance of a pooch named Toto in "The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park." And in the title story, Mickey Baker—an ex-pat English bar owner living on the Costa Brava—tries to keep all of his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid's weight at the sexual maximum, attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging his ex-wife and Spanish gangsters. In typically Welshian fashion, the characters and settings are anything but typical. These stories will make you laugh and gasp.
The Rough Guide to Wales
Title | The Rough Guide to Wales PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Le Nevez |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 549 |
Release | 2009-05 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1848360509 |
The guide includes hundreds of listings of the all the top places to eat, drink and stay, whatever your budget. There is plenty of good advice on outdoor pursuits, including some of the best mountain and coastal walks, and activities from surfing on the Gower to climbing in Snowdonia.
Sixpence House
Title | Sixpence House PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Collins |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2010-12-15 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1608196828 |
"Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los Angeles Times "Collins' gift is that you don't care where you end up. The journey is enough."-Readerville "The real, engaging heart of the tale is Collins' love of books and other people who love them...Collins muses on antiquarian books the way the rest of us remember lost loves."-San Francisco Chronicle "Funny, informative, somewhat chaotic and full of interesting references...there are numerous meanders into peripheral subjects, seen through the astute eyes of an Anglophile American."-Washington Post