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22 produkter
Fire People
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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Set in the ironmaking town of Merthyr Tydfil, The Fire People is the story of Dic Penderyn who in 1831 became the first Welsh Martyr of the working class. Hanged for a crime that he did not commit, his story is told in this powerful novel which describes the events which took place during the …
If You Believe The Soldiers
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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Britain in the mid-1980s is a country in the grip of a brutal fascist regime. There is rioting in the streets, cold-blood massacres by extremist political groups, attempted coups by liberating forces based on the continent. Mak Seaton is a senior civil servant whose strengths and weaknesses are …
Tales From Tiger Bay
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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The people who inhabited the dockland area of Cardiff, know as Tiger Bay, have engraved their personalities on the very air of Bute Street and, under Alexander Cordell''s vivid pen, the streets are crammed again with every creed and nationality; from priests and nuns to dockers and drunks; boxers, …
Rape of the Fair Country
The Mortymer Trilogy Book One
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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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 …
Requiem For A Patriot
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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1839. The queen''s realm is in the grip of revolutionary fervour. John Frost, idealistic and charismatic leader of the South Wales Chartists leads his dispossessed followers to Newport. Similar risings are planned throughout the land. these will signal a new dawn: one that heralds the end of …
Moll
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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The raven-haired beauty in the stagecoach looks every inch the French aristocrat she claims to be. But she is nothing of the sort. She is Moll Walbee, and she has left her reputation as a notorious pickpocket far behind her in the slums of Paris. The handsome higwayman who waylays the stagecoach is …
Dreams of Fair Women
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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Hong Kong in the nineteenth century: a heady, overwhelming mixture of worldly commercialism, moral corruption and Eastern tradition. Into this strange and exciting world, on board the S.S. Mongolia comes Milly Smith, daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon, destined for a marriage of convenience to a greedy …
Land of Heart's Desire
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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Iestyn Mortymer was sentenced to twenty-one years transportation to the colonies for his part in the Chartist Rebellion of 1839. But three years on, he escaped during the massacre of the British Army in Afghanistan, and returned to Wales under a false identity. His beautiful Afghan lover Durrani, …
Send Her Victorious
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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1848. When the French people besiege Paris, King Louis Philippe flees to England and the French aristocracy run for their lives. Even the Pope deserts the Vatican. Europe is in turmoil. Fearing economic and social collapse, the French provisonal government distracts world attention by recruiting a …
Hosts of Rebecca
The Mortymer Trilogy Book Two
E-bok, 2014
68 kr
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It is the time of the Rebecca Riots when economic turmoil and unjust taxes have left the communities of south Wales in dire poverty with many on the brink of starvation. A time when young men ride through the night smashing and burning the symbols of their oppression. The Mortymer family have left …
Deadly Eurasian
E-bok, 2014
50 kr
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Mei Kayling, a member of the Chinese Red Guard and undercover agent, must lead a column of refugees across the mountains of China into Hong Kong, a perilous journey through villages blasted by an apparent nuclear explosion. It soon becomes clear that the blast was caused by a bomb from an American …
Song of the Earth
The Mortymer Trilogy Book Three
E-bok, 2014
40 kr
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Mostyn Evan and his family, miners turned bargees, wage a glorious but hopeless struggle against rapacious coalmasters, Irish navvies, the ravages of cholera, and the bullying illegal Unions. As they ply their trade between the furnaces of Cyfarthfa and the lush beauty of the Neath Valley, they …
Song of the Earth
The Mortymer Trilogy Book Three
Häftad, 2014
187 kr
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Mostyn Evan and his family, miners turned bargees, wage a glorious but hopeless struggle against rapacious coalmasters, Irish navvies, the ravages of cholera, and the bullying illegal Unions. As they ply their trade between the furnaces of Cyfarthfa and the lush beauty of the Neath Valley, they …
Dream And The Destiny
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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The Long March was an extraordinary feat of human endurance. Lin-Wai, a young doctor newly recruited into the Red Army, is caught up in the breakout of the followers of Mao and their ensuing flight. The marchers struggle on through pain and suffering, under continual harrassment from the enormously …
Sea Urchin
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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The Isle of Man is a Fairy place. If you know where to look, you may still find the little people, as they are called. On the Island lived a Chinese boy, Hu, with his father and his dog Kau Kau. One day Hu''s father said that he was going to Liverpool to bring home a new wife, and a new mother for …
Rogue's March
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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James Alexander McAndrew is an artist, a raconteur and a drunk. A roarer who fights his way through every pub in Tiger Bay to become a bouncer in Toulouse-Lautrec''s Montmartre. Yet despite his restless nature and his wild adventures, he still longs of a girl he left behind Wales, the beautful Miss …
Land Of My Fathers
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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Set against the background of the Chartist rebellion, LAND OF MY FATHERS is a heartfelt evocation of the greatest iron town in the world, Merthyr, and of the people who made it so: foundry-owners and workers, immigrants, fortune-hunters, idealists, prostitutes and wastrels. It is also the story of …
Peerless Jim
E-bok, 2014
51 kr
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Jim Driscoll, adopted Welshman, one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Robust, hot-headed, a born fighter - and a legend in his own lifetime. Moving between South Wales, London and America in the early years of the twentieth century, this is the dramatic story of a true-life sporting hero - a …
This Proud and Savage Land
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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Hywel Mortymer's story begins in 1800 when he is sixteen and a dramatic change in fortune leads him, innocent and inexperienced, to a brutal anddangerous life working in the coal mines. In the mines children can be horribly maimed in devastating gas explosions,or grow deformed with the burden of …
Rape of the Fair Country
Häftad, 2025
256 kr
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Set in the valleys of the Welsh iron country, this turbulent, 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 …
Cardiff Anthology
Av Alexander Cordell, Alun Rees m. fl.
Häftad, 1987
93 kr
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"I'm Cardiff born and I'm Cardiff bred, And when I die I'll be Cardiff dead" - Frank Hennessy. Life in the Welsh capital means many things to many people. Frank Hennessy loves it, but others aren't so sure... Editor Meic Stephens was born at Treforest, near Pontypridd, in 1938. Educated at …
Big Book of Cardiff
Av Alexander Cordell, Anna Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
136 kr
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A new anthology of writing about Cardiff, celebrating 100 years as a city, 50 as the Welsh capital.Peter Finch and Grahame Davies are ideally placed to select the writers and writing which reflect the modern Cardiff. Here are revealing and entertaining contributions from some of the finest writers …
