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I Saw A Man
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2015
96 kr
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The event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door.After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London and quickly develops a close friendship …
Poet's Guide to Britain
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2010
179 kr
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Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in its own right.Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective …
Poet's Guide to Britain
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology that ties in with the BBC series of the same name.Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power …
Dust Diaries
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2005
153 kr
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When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sheers embarks on a journey through contemporary Zimbabwe in …
Unicorns, Almost
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2018
159 kr
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Unicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three days after the Normandy D-Day landings at the age of twenty-four. It is the …
Resistance
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2011
99 kr
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1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied . . . Young farmer's wife Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her remote Welsh village.A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of their mission a …
Calon
A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2014
149 kr
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This paperback edition has been fully updated to include the 2013 Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions Tour.What does rugby mean to Wales? Where does the heart of Welsh rugby lie? In Calon, Owen Sheers takes a personal journey into a sport that defines a nation. Drawing on interviews and …
Calon
A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2013
76 kr
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This edition has been fully updated to include the 2013 Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions Tour.What does rugby mean to Wales? Where does the heart of Welsh rugby lie? In Calon, Owen Sheers takes a personal journey into a sport that defines a nation. Drawing on interviews and unprecedented …
Two Worlds of Charlie F.
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2012
148 kr
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Welcome to our warThe Two Worlds of Charlie F. is a soldier's view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, the play explores the consequences of injury, both physical and …
Pink Mist
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their …
Pink Mist
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2014
130 kr
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Winner of Wales Book of the Year Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their …
Two Worlds of Charlie F.
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2014
201 kr
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Welcome to our war.The Two Worlds of Charlie F. is a soldier's view of service, injury and recovery. Moving from the war in Afghanistan, through the dream world of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court, the play explores the consequences of injury, both physical and …
I Saw A Man
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2016
130 kr
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After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner moves to London to start again. Living on a quiet street in Hampstead, he develops a close bond with the Nelson family next door: Josh, Samantha and their two young daughters.The friendship at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, but then a …
Resistance
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2016
130 kr
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Resistance opens in 1944, as the women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. In his hugely anticipated debut novel, Owen Sheers has produced a beautifully imagined and powerfully moving …
Mametz
with a Welsh-language translation
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2017
151 kr
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'"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who were killed or wounded in the Battle of …
Mametz
with a Welsh-language translation
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2017
148 kr
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'"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from the 38th (Welsh) Division, who were killed or wounded in the Battle of …
Green Hollow
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2019
126 kr
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In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and uses their collective memories to create a striking work of poetic power.This …
Green Hollow
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2018
131 kr
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In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and using their collective memories has created a striking work of poetic …
To Provide All People
A Poem in the Voice of the NHS
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2019
151 kr
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'Should be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National …
To Provide All People
A Poem in the Voice of the NHS
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2018
31 kr
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July 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. Owen Sheers, the author of Pink Mistand the BAFTA nominated The Green Hollow, has created a virtuosic 'film-poem' to coincide with the Vox Pictures/BBC production broadcast to mark the occasion. To Provide All People is the …
Unicorns, Almost
Av Owen Sheers
E-bok, 2018
164 kr
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Unicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three days after the Normandy D-Day landings at the age of twenty-four. It is the …
Pink Mist
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2016
223 kr
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Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young friends from Bristol who join the army and are deployed to the post 9/11 conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time all three return to the women in their lives - a wife, a mother, a girlfriend - all of whom must now share the psychological …
Mametz
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2018
223 kr
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A meditation on war, memory and the nature of time, Mametz, inspired by the writings of David Jones and Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, tells the story of the 38th Welsh Division's attack on Mametz Wood during the Somme offensive of 1916. Set within the context of a contemporary battlefield tour and moving …
Two Worlds of Charlie F
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2021
223 kr
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The Two Worlds of Charlie F. moves through the stages of service, from the war in Afghanistan to dream-like states of morphine-induced hallucinations to the physio rooms of Headley Court. All through the view of soldier Charlie Fowler's service, injury and recovery. The play explores themes of …
Two Worlds of Charlie F (Small Cast
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2021
223 kr
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The Two Worlds of Charlie F. moves through the stages of service, from the war in Afghanistan, to dream-like states of morphine-induced hallucinations, to the physio rooms of Headley Court. All through the view of soldier Charlie Fowler's service, injury and recovery. The play explores themes of …
Drew, Moo and Bunny, Too
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2025
122 kr
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A beautiful, lyrical story of a little boy and his two best friends, told in enchanting verse by renowned poet Owen Sheers and magnificently illustrated by award-winning artist Helen Stephens.Poet Owen Sheers and award-winning illustrator Helen Stephens have beautifully imagined the story of a …
Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection
30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot
Av Philip Hoare, Kirsty Gunn m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2023
177 kr
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22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observations In these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3''s The Essay , an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and …
Skirrid Hill
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2005
190 kr
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Ideas of separation inhabit many of the poems in Owen Sheers’ second collection: the geographical and linguistic divides of borders, the separation of the living and the dead, the movement from childhood to adulthood, the fraying of relationships. It is in the acute awareness of such moments of …
Gospel of Us
Av Owen Sheers
Häftad, 2012
126 kr
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In The Gospel of Us, Owen Sheers reimagines his National Theatre of Wales dramatisation of the three-day Passion, set in the streets and clubs of Port Talbot. Sheers' novel tells of a town in thrall to the sinister corporation ICU – until the day when a stranger appears in the dunes, singing songs …
