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• Daisy: The Lives and Loves of the Countess of Warwick by Sushila Anand
  ...ing scandal resulted in various indiscreet letters involving the Prince of Wales, and came close to ending up in court.
  5 KB (781 words) - 11:28, 6 September 2020
• Cold Enough To Freeze Cows by Lorraine Jenkin
  ...t round a convincing framework of a warm, ribald, farming community in mid-Wales. One part of the story follows the romantic fortunes of childhood friends, ...her's collection of mainly new talent. For another marvellous evocation of Wales, try [[The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan]].
  5 KB (776 words) - 10:28, 4 April 2018
• Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell
  ...look at the plight of the workers in the coal and iron industries in South Wales in the first half of the nineteenth century. Compelling writing and a grip ...long after it was first published. At the time I'd recently moved to South Wales and was puzzled by an iciness towards the English: I was nudged in the dire
  5 KB (789 words) - 12:59, 12 August 2020
• Back Home by Bethan Darwin
  ...etons very firmly in the cupboard. That Trevor, Sarah and Ellie return to Wales, reunite with their family and open up the cupboards, is also reference to
  4 KB (743 words) - 12:51, 29 September 2020
• Noguchi the Samurai by Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales
  |author=Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales [[Category:Johnny Wales]]
  5 KB (880 words) - 10:17, 3 March 2018
• The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
  A young man trying to help the war effort, Rotheram, goes to south Wales to try and get into the mind of someone rather important to any future war ...a budding relationship with Colin, a Londoner working as a sapper in north Wales. Esther knows to keep this romance a little on the QT – her Welsh-speaki
  5 KB (887 words) - 16:21, 21 February 2018
• A Christmas Story by Brian Wildsmith
  ...istmas by Jan Pienkowski]]. You might also enjoy [[A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey]].
  2 KB (392 words) - 15:55, 6 August 2020
• Category:Marcus Dalrymple
  ...panese Newspaper, before formally studying journalism at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
  6 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 12:29, 3 September 2020
• War Baby: A Dyslexic Life by Mike Strange
  ...d gets evacuated, with his mother and gran, to maternal relatives in South Wales, and arrive back when it's clear we aren't about to be invaded – that is ...can get quite scatological, what with the ''en plein air'' convenience in Wales, of sitting astride a hole in a bench, twenty feet above a raging river. I
  5 KB (872 words) - 21:44, 15 February 2018
• The Hidden Landscape by Richard Fortey
  ...Appalachians are mentioned. Additionally, Fortey notes that Cambria-Roman Wales, the Ordivicians, the tribes whom the Romans conquered and the barbarian Si
  6 KB (889 words) - 11:58, 15 April 2018
• Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke
  Tradition has it that the Prince of Wales, as he was for most of his life, was an Englishman with all the faults and ...ne, cigars, theatre-going and bedhopping. The outgoing, affable Prince of Wales may have learnt nothing from his tutors and his books, but he was a sound j
  6 KB (956 words) - 08:33, 9 April 2018
• Rotten to the Core by Rob Murphy
  ...upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated by 200 miles and wit ...nd more from when it actually happened in our world, allowing Scotland and Wales the chance to be compromised (and similarly Qatar 2022 is delayed further),
  6 KB (1,024 words) - 14:08, 12 April 2018
• The Heresy of Dr Dee by Phil Rickman
  ...een, is an excellent foil to him. Rickman also captures the atmosphere of Wales in the middle of the sixteenth century really well.
  3 KB (440 words) - 15:47, 22 February 2018
• Category:Lorraine Jenkin
  Lorraine lives in Mid Wales with partner, Huw, and their three daughters. She sets her books amongst th
  5 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:51, 9 July 2014
• A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
  ...different ways of telling the history of England (indeed just England, not Wales and Scotland, as the author makes clear). This takes a very simple and ver ...gland, the week that new anti-smoking laws came into effect in England and Wales?
  6 KB (986 words) - 11:25, 23 September 2020
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
  ...razy. But then events set in motion a visit to the island off the coast of Wales where Jacob's grandfather grew up, and
  3 KB (433 words) - 12:40, 15 April 2018
• Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet by Sion Rowlands
  The stories of his childhood and early life in rural Wales are engaging: they're very much of a time gone by. His parents' separation
  3 KB (476 words) - 09:04, 3 April 2024
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Hayley Long
  And finally, I’d choose my friend Kirsty who is from Mold in North Wales – just down the road from Wrexham. So that’s five people I’ve picked
  9 KB (1,762 words) - 14:40, 31 August 2011
• Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase
  A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the boy travels to the
  3 KB (515 words) - 15:00, 23 November 2018
• So What! by Tracey Trussell and Neil Price
  ...Strong by Mario Ramos]] or [[Noguchi the Samurai by Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales]].
  3 KB (598 words) - 11:43, 10 April 2018

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