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15 produkter
Library of Wales: The Caves of Alienation
Häftad, 2009
130 kr
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At the centre of Stuart Evans's ambitious and enthralling novel is Michael Caradock, a well-known writer whose life has ended violently on an isolated Welsh island. The circumstances of his death are mysterious, but then his whole life and work are subjects of controversy. Are his work and death …
Library of Wales: The Alone to the Alone
Av Gwyn Thomas, Dai Smith
Häftad, 2008
126 kr
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First published in 1947, The Alone to the Alone is Gwyn Thomas' most shaped work: the underlying meaning of South Wales' history is not so much documented as laid bare for universal dissection and dissemination. This volume is a comic vision of humanity that recognises no geographical boundaries.
Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale
Av Dai Smith
Häftad, 2021
225 kr
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This edition celebrates the centenary of Williams's birth.RAYMOND WILLIAMS (1921-1998) was the most influentialsocialist writer and thinker in post-war Britain. Now, for thefirst time, making full use of Williams's private and unpublishedpapers and by placing him in a wide social and …
Five Guys, Five Poems
The Thundering Bus Pass Revue
Av Patrick Jones, Topher Mills m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
236 kr
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Five poems from five poets. The bus pass tour.
Measuring the Distance
Av Dai Smith
Häftad, 2025
120 kr
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When you come out for the bell aged eighty you have no choice but to employ a late style. This is mine. A mix of deceitfully plain reportage; fictive history and fictional forays into the past; personalised reflections and more shaded perspectives from others; some poetry and polemics; glances of …
Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales
Av Dai Smith
Häftad, 1993
231 kr
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South Wales was the sight of one of the last expansions of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. From 1880 onwards it competed - in terms of economic and population growth and sheer dynamic modernity - with any comparable area in the world. By the 1920s it was labelled "American Wales" and this …
Community and Its University
Glamorgan 1913-2003
Häftad, 2003
141 kr
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This work forms part of the tenth-anniversary celebrations of the University of Glamorgan. It traces the institution's development from its beginnings as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines to its present-day status as a university and sets that history in the context of the …
Community and Its University
Glamorgan 1913-2003
Inbunden, 2003
385 kr
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This work forms part of the tenth-anniversary celebrations of the University of Glamorgan. It traces the institution's development from its beginnings as the South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines to its present-day status as a university and sets that history in the context of the …
Ken Elias
Thin Partitions
Av Anne Price-Owen, Ceri Thomas m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
225 kr
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This handsome, full colour book celebrates forty years of the work of Ken Elias, from student op art/collage to current work made in response to poetry. As an artist Elias is something of a conundrum. Born and once again based in Glynneath, he draws extensively on his locale and on his childhood in …
Raymond Williams A Warrior's Tale
Av Dai Smith, Jasmine Donahaye
Inbunden, 2008
279 kr
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A biography of Raymond Williams (1921-1988), using a rich array of material from hitherto unused personal papers. It examines the writer's formative years and beyond, and places its central figure within a deeply researched social and cultural history.
Library of Wales: The Heyday in the Blood
Häftad, 2008
126 kr
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The village of Tanygraig on the Welsh-English border is the setting for this passionate novel of love and its consequences. Beti, the beautiful and wilful daughter of a pub landlord, is pursued by two men: Llew, her aggressive, red-haired cousin, and Evan, the dreamy miller and would-be poet. She …
What I Know I Cannot Say / All That Lies Beneath
Av Dai Smith
Häftad, 2016
124 kr
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What I Know I Cannot Say / All That Lies Beneath combines a novella and a linked section of short stories to create a white-knuckle fiction ride through the South Wales Valleys during the 20th century. Power, sex, money and ambition all twist through the pages as Smith creates a feast of …
Crossing
Av Dai Smith
Häftad, 2021
130 kr
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The Crossing bridges the past and the present andconnects Wales with America, as it tells of coal ownersand coal workers in the age of great transatlantic linersand fortunes to be made.At its heart is a father’s search for his daughter inWelsh valleys no longer proud, where creaming offregeneration …
Off the Track
Traces of Memory
Av Dai Smith
Häftad, 2023
142 kr
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A boy running around a running track in the early evening opens a memoir of candour and insight. From a working-class Rhondda childhood through to the glamour of Barry Grammar and onto a coveted Balliol College scholarship and study in New York, David Smith was the rising intellectual star of a …
