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  • Category:Johnny Wales
    [[Category:Johnny Wales|Wales, Johny]]
    2 members (1 subcategory, 0 files) - 08:15, 12 January 2014
  • Category:Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales
    [[Category:Authors|Wales, Johny]]
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 08:13, 12 January 2014
  • Category:Michael Pritchard
    ...Rheumatologist and honorary Senior Lecturer at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. The facilities at the hospital enabled him to combine clinical
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 08:43, 23 September 2020
  • Category:Laura Williams
    Laura Williams, BSc (Hons) MChS Podiatry, was born and brought up in North Wales. After travelling the world, she settled in Brighton. In 2010, she decided
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 15:57, 25 May 2017
  • Bred of Heaven: One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots by Jasper Rees
    ...reams. Despite his surname, he was born in England, but wishes he was from Wales. Seeking to find his inner Welshman – he's sure he has one as he had Wels ...out weird mutations? Check. Everything you'd expect to be in an account of Wales is here… and to be honest, that's the problem which stops this being more
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  • Category:Barry Holland
    Barry Holland was born in Newport, South Wales, to poor, working class parents. He qualified as an engineer in 1993 but, d
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 13:35, 2 September 2016
  • Category:W S Markendale
    ...s had the desire to write novels since leaving school. Now living in North Wales, he uses local towns and villages as the settings for his stories.
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 13:22, 28 March 2017
  • Category:Reviewed by Sarah Cooper
    Sarah lives in S. Wales. She is married to Justin and has a lovely little boy called Corey. She is
    21 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 16:53, 24 October 2009
  • Category:Patricia Watkins
    ...the United States, where I lived for over forty years before returning to Wales in 2003. ...magazine) accompanied a lecture held at the New York Public Library during Wales Week in 2009.
    6 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:04, 25 January 2013
  • A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas and Peter Bailey
    |title=A Child’s Christmas in Wales |sort=Child’s Christmas in Wales, A
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  • Not Quite White by Simon Thirsk
    ...ven the unenviable remit by Westminster to 'sort out' a small community in Wales and drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st Century - but is he up to t ...f Wales and its language.'' (As someone who has lived in both England and Wales) I was keen to start reading.
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  • Struggle or Starve by Carole White and Sian Williams
    ...ng anthology of autobiographical writings by women about life in the South Wales mining valleys in the 1920s and 1930s, about childhood, growing up, life, d ...ction of autobiographical writings about girls' and women's lives in South Wales between the wars. This is a new edition of a book first published in 1998 b
    4 KB (697 words) - 08:35, 8 April 2018
  • Stephanie Tillotson Talks To Bookbag About Honno Publishing's 25th Birthday
    ...t, but we are very proud to say we've been publishing women's writing from Wales for a quarter century! Worth a bit of a party, don't you think?
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  • B Positive by Dai Henley
    ...e sport of life as Dai himself says. It's a social history of England and Wales just after WWII and inspirational on the subject of business. Born in South Wales to English parents, he moved to St Albans soon after starting grammar schoo
    3 KB (563 words) - 19:00, 6 April 2018
  • The Breathing by Mary-Ann Constantine
    ...ction of delicate and thought-through short stories, fuelled with love for Wales and wry melancholy. The book is not about getting the meaning of every stor ...he lives of people - and an elephant - of a certain location (or a few) in Wales.
    3 KB (463 words) - 09:05, 2 April 2018
  • Prince William: Born to be King: An Intimate Portrait by Penny Junor
    During (and even after) the War of the Waleses, Diana, Princess of Wales was either more adept at using the press to put her side of the story forwa ...provoking and insightful. I was never a great fan of the late Princess of Wales but I certainly felt that I came away with a more balanced view of what mig
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  • Ghosts and Lightning by Trevor Byrne
    Denny comes home to Dublin from Wales after his mum dies suddenly, and hangs around drinking and taking drugs wit ...ame time, he is not necessarily going to do everything they do. He went to Wales considering studying, and while I prefer not to spoil the end of his story
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  • West: A Journey Through the Landscapes of Loss by Jim Perrin
    ...ose deaths, and finding life in every small detail of his world travelling Wales. ...ervations, nature notes, field guides. Perrin is more intimate with rural Wales than anyone else you will ever have read and conveys the journeys he made b
    5 KB (939 words) - 11:35, 17 August 2020
  • The Box of Demons by Daniel Whelan
    ...s of good and evil choose now (a wet and stormy February), and here (North Wales) to have it out once and for all? ...gs that really endeared it to me – a brilliantly disparaging look at North Wales, courtesy of the author's own growing up there, and more, that made me thi
    4 KB (703 words) - 12:57, 24 April 2018
  • Sweet Pizza by G R Gemin
    Sweet Pizza is a beautifully rich story based in Bryn Mawr, a town in South Wales. This slow-paced story is not action-packed and electrifying but with its s Before reading this story, I had no idea that Italians in Wales were interned after Mussolini joined forces with Hitler. Men who were once
    3 KB (443 words) - 09:57, 21 August 2020
  • Category:PJ Vanston
    As well as writing books, the author also writes songs, including COME ON WALES, by Little Red Dragons, a charity football song recorded for Euro2016.
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:13, 9 November 2016
  • The Pleasure Seekers by Tishani Doshi
    ...love story between two people - Babo from Madras and Sian from small-town Wales. You could argue that two more disparate cultures would be hard to imagin ...id not choose the usual London girlfriend/boyfriend scenario. By choosing Wales it gives the opportunity to describe the small-town feel. So when finally
    4 KB (659 words) - 09:55, 25 August 2020
  • The Viking Hostage by Tracey Warr
    ...mary=A densely packed 10th century hist fict ranging from France to Viking Wales with other locations in between. Sometimes story flow is sacrificed to the ...art historian [[:Category:Tracey Warr|Tracey Warr]] lives between homes in Wales and France. This provides the logic as to why she set ''The Viking Hostage
    4 KB (662 words) - 14:05, 22 March 2018
  • Category:Jem Vanston
    As well as writing books, the author also writes songs, including COME ON WALES, by Little Red Dragons, a charity football song recorded for Euro2016.
    3 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 14:54, 6 August 2020
  • Alfred: Queen Victoria's Second Son by John Van der Kiste
    ...birth he was second in line to the throne after his brother, the Prince of Wales and was generally known within the family as Affie. In his early teens he Books about Affie' elder brother, the Prince of Wales abound, but Affie has been less-well served and John Van der Kiste does an
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  • A Humble Companion by Laurie Graham
    ...y the daughter of a high-ranking steward in the household of the Prince of Wales, but with only two years difference in age they became life-long friends. ...worried little about the impression they created. Prinnie - the Prince of Wales - was notorious for the debts he incurred with little thought about how the
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  • A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
    ...s book on Edward I, Longshanks, the long-lived medieval king who conquered Wales and Scotland, pacified a civil war, went on Crusade and, infamously, expell ...he had taken a great part in the defeat of Simon de Montfort. He conquered Wales. He went on Crusade. By the end of his reign, all Jews had been expelled fr
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  • The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane
    Widow, Ruth, lives alone in the isolated seaside house in New South Wales that was once their family holiday house. Her two adult sons now work abroa ...t's a spoiler to disclose that it's not a real tiger - we are in New South Wales after all and while there are a lot of things that can kill you in Australi
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  • Two Times Twenty by Bethan Darwin
    You can tell from the beginning of this novel that you're in Wales. The young Anna (as we travel back in time) is meeting what will be long-t ...ve been a little braver and given her readers a more pronounced flavour of Wales.
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  • None So Blind by Alis Hawkins
    ...rime novel set, delightfully and unusually, in mid-nineteenth-century West Wales with all the additional possibilities of Welsh vs English, church vs chapel ...d the London barrister has recently returned to his father's house in West Wales due to deteriorating sight. That means Harry is on hand to press for justic
    4 KB (640 words) - 14:38, 10 April 2018
  • A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard
    Prince George was twelve when his father Frederick, Prince of Wales, suddenly died, leaving a young (and pregnant) widow and eight children. F ...r daughter Caroline who would become the hopelessly unsuitable Princess of Wales, the wife of the Prince Regent, later King George IV - though that is anoth
    4 KB (641 words) - 14:20, 9 April 2018
  • Trick of Fate: Connell O'Keeffe and The Pen Caer Legacy by Patricia Watkins
    ...outh Wales but Potter is there from choice, whereas O'Keeffe is trapped in Wales, badly injured, imprisoned and when he does manage to escape he knows that
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  • Category:Linda Jones
    ...ys delving into the worlds of fantasy and adventure. Originally from South Wales (UK), I have always loved listening to stories and grew up on a rich diet o
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 10:10, 4 July 2019
  • Chocolate Mousse and Two Spoons by Lorraine Jenkin
    ...vel following two sets of characters living in two small towns, one in mid-Wales, the other, Lyme Regis in Dorset. Because I read and loved [[Eating Blackb ...n Lyme Regis between bouts of painting). The newspaper finds its way into Wales, and Dougie the gorgeous tree surgeon answers the ad. Now Dougie is a man
    5 KB (848 words) - 10:19, 4 April 2018
  • Max Kowalski Didn't Mean It by Susie Day
    ...at they will step in and separate the family. So Max takes his sisters to Wales, to hide out in a friend’s cottage. It won’t be for long, surely? Bec ...the grown up is really hard, and things go wrong. Still, when they get to Wales they are welcomed by a local family - Bill, Michael and their adopted son T
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  • The Hopkins Conundrum by Simon Edge
    Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct ...l of fantastically drawn characters. A contemporary tale set in modern day Wales provides the backbone for the story – and Tim, Chloe and Alun are the cha
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Lorraine Jenkin Again
    I live in Mid Wales, and the area was hit badly by the Foot and Mouth epidemic of 2001. I knew ...ryside. Could you live anywhere else? What's a girl from Dorset doing in Wales?'''
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  • The Silver Witch (Shadow Chronicles) by Paula Brackston
    ...e house she and her husband envisaged their lives together in the wilds of Wales. Unfortunately, due to his tragic death a year ago, Tilda must move in alo Paula takes us back to the Wales of Book 1, ''The Winter Witch'' but this time mingles Celtic history with m
    4 KB (718 words) - 14:37, 23 August 2020
  • Hood by Stephen R Lawhead
    ..., William Rufus, on the throne, the Normans are turning their eyes towards Wales, still stubbornly populated by British kings refusing to do much more than ...from Nottingham and the reign of Richard the Lionheart and replaces him in Wales shortly after the Norman Conquest, was right up my myth and legend alley. A
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  • Category:Lynne Thomas
    Lynne Thomas grew up in South Wales in a little village in the valleys. Her childhood memories mainly involve
    2 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 09:22, 19 May 2013
  • 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.
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  • 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]].
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  • 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
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  • Noguchi the Samurai by Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales
    |author=Burt Konzak and Johnny Wales [[Category:Johnny Wales]]
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  • 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
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  • 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]].
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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),
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  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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]].
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  • Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels by Adrian Mourby
    ...hem and Churchill had vast experience of good hotels. Edward as Prince of Wales (with or without Mrs Simpson) also shows up.
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  • Victoria: A Life by A N Wilson
    ...seclusion and the behaviour of the philandering, self-indulgent Prince of Wales had made the institution unpopular and boosted the republican cause. I would take issue with his comments on her antipathy to the Prince of Wales, and think he overplays her antipathy to him somewhat; and even more with h
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  • The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
    ...mphasises. She was unfailingly loyal to her brothers Bertie, the Prince of Wales, so often criticised in boyhood by his ever fault-finding parents, and Leop ...rriage. Lorne, as everybody called him, was probably gay and the Prince of Wales was among those who knew about what in those days was called ‘the love th
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  • Of Boys, Men and Mountains - Life in the Rhondda Valley by Roy Tomkinson
    ...e nineteen fifties, when post-War austerity was still a feature of life in Wales. Nevertheless, discipline, love and understanding were meted out by his par
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  • The Old Romantic by Louise Dean
    ...does his best. Dave, on the other hand is the eternal lad. On a trip to Wales which the three men take he sits in the back of the car, drinking and eatin
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  • Never Say Die by Anthony Horowitz
    ...ex from the USA, to Egypt, then the South of France, London and ultimately Wales for the dramatic climax. There are some new bad guys with another crazy sch
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  • Cowgirl by G R Gemin
    Gemma has grown up on a housing estate in South Wales where muggings and burglaries are commonplace, her dad is in prison, her mu
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  • View from the Cheap Seats by Barry Holland
    A little bit about Barry Holland: he was born in Newport, South Wales, to working class parents. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favo
    3 KB (549 words) - 22:04, 15 February 2018
  • On The Slow Train Again by Michael Williams
    ...particular favourite parts are when he's talking about my home country of Wales or the West Country where I went to university, but the journeys are picked
    3 KB (541 words) - 13:48, 28 February 2018
  • Scarlet by Stephen R Lawhead
    ...dispossession by the hated Norman invaders, his journey to the forests of Wales and his time with the insurgency led by King Raven, or Rhi Bran y Hud - the
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  • Category:Robert Crompton
    ...le closer to the forest, but it wasn't to last and we bounced around South Wales for nearly twenty years.
    3 members (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 07:47, 20 May 2015
  • Innocence by Roald Dahl
    ...was sparked by reading ''Boy'' and discovering all about his childhood in Wales, Norway and boarding school - and Penguin have taken those compelling tales
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  • Sons, Servants and Statesmen: The Men in Queen Victoria's Life by John Van der Kiste
    ...would ever take his place, and certainly not her eldest son, the Prince of Wales. Her relationships with all her sons were difficult to some extent, not le
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  • Unforgettable Walks by Julia Bradbury
    |summary=Eight walks from England and Wales, chosen because of the views. Perhaps one to read before the walk, or alon
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  • Alice in Love and War by Ann Turnbull
    ...t and hunger by her side, observing the starving poor, meeting people from Wales and Ireland – seen by some as whores, witnessing horrific scenes. At the
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  • Eminent Elizabethans by Piers Brendon
    ...es of four major personalities of our time - Rupert Mudroch, the Prince of Wales, Margaret Thatcher and Mick Jagger ...s). This provides a link with the next subject in the book, the Prince of Wales. Charles is portrayed as the hapless victim of unsympathetic parenting, a
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  • Before I Was Yours by Virginia Macgregor
    ...ar (from the passenger seat, obviously) as we wound through the valleys of Wales. All the beauty of nature couldn't compete with me finding out what would h
    3 KB (578 words) - 10:13, 20 February 2018
  • Diana's Story by Deric Longden
    I originally picked up this book thinking it was about Diana, Princess of Wales, but upon reading the back cover, I decided to give it a go anyway.
    3 KB (587 words) - 08:21, 9 April 2018
  • Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1) by Jenny O'Brien
    '''Previously Published as ''Missing in Wales '''''
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  • Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History of Britain's Kings and Queens in Bite-Sized Chunks by Kevin Flude
    ...here as Cunobelinus. The breadth includes kings of Scotland and rulers of Wales, as countries in their own right, meaning this is nothing as bread-and-butt
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  • The Life of Handel by Victor Schoelcher (Author), Anton de Moresco (Editor), James Lowe (Translator)
    ...very important concert one night and untuned the lot. When the Prince of Wales arrived to listen, Handel gave the signal for the players to begin. Infuri
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  • A Collection of Short Stories by Gillian Fletcher-Edwards
    ...llian Fletcher-Edwards grew up as the daughter of a mining family in South Wales and her writing is infused with an honest and affectionate picture of the l
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  • The Wayward Gentleman: John Theophilus Potter and the Town of Haverfordwest by Patricia Watkins
    ...family - but I lived in Swansea for a time and I've a soft spot for South Wales. Then, when I began reading, I realised that this book is very, very well
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  • Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
    ...only a few chapters in. This book is similar in setting (coastal New South Wales) and characters (three women lead the way) but the plot is brand new. Jane
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  • Lifesaving for Beginners by Ciara Geraghty
    ...e midway point I was truly hooked and sped through it on a drive back from Wales as I couldn’t stand the thought of waiting until bedtime.
    3 KB (638 words) - 13:00, 5 April 2018
  • Wild Abandon by Joe Dunthorne
    Kate and Albert are two teenagers growing up in a commune in Wales. Kate is becoming more and more dissatisfied with the restraints of this l
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  • The King's Jockey by Lesley Gray
    .... His most influential owner at the turn of the century was the Prince of Wales and it was Bertie Jones' ability to work with Diamond Jubilee, the Prince's
    3 KB (584 words) - 14:00, 17 March 2018
  • Food Britannia by Andrew Webb
    I'm not quite as familiar with Wales but I lived there for a few years and I couldn't resist a trip through Swan
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  • The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
    ...wn was editor of ''Tatler'' magazine when Diana married Charles, Prince of Wales and was therefore in a close position to observe the ensuing years. Trawlin
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  • Doctor Who: 365 Days of Memorable Moments and Impossible Things by Justin Richards
    ...devolves to the minutiae of which episode was shown on a different day in Wales, for instance, or repeatedly and pointedly points out Eric Saward as story
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  • The Ninth Wave (New Stories from the Mabinogion) by Russell Celyn Jones
    Pwyll rules a medieval-style fiefdom in a post-climate change Wales. Life is different in many ways - there's a new-but-old social order built
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  • Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
    ...ers whose hobby hides individual dark pasts that emerge on a trip to North Wales, and a bizarre story of a drug dealer on the run who gets caught up in some
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  • The Child's Secret by Amanda Brooke
    ...f the exploits are either in the park where Sam works, or on trips away to Wales. I've not read a book based in the north for some time and it was good to g
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  • The Story of Be by David Crystal
    ...': from 'You're cheeky, you are' to 'I've been with someone' to 'I live in Wales, innit? ', what you thought was simply a nice functional verb to have in En
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  • To School Through The Fields by Alice Taylor
    ...arve]] is an anthology of autobiographical writing about life in the South Wales mining community between the wars. [[I'll Tell Me Ma: A Childhood Memoir by
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  • The World is a Wedding by Wendy Jones
    ...wice at home, either, as we could never see the places and people of south Wales with such newly open eyes as before, and only a hilarious cameo or two from
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  • White Ravens (New Stories from the Mabinogion) by Owen Sheers
    ...orizons were broad - on a clear day Matthew's father reckoned he could see Wales from the top of the Wicklow hills. But their personal horizons were narrow.
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  • Bloodmining by Laura Wilkinson
    Although Megan has based herself in bustling London, she still calls Wales her home. On a visit to her mother an arrangement is made which seems to s
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  • Rebel (Knife) by R J Anderson
    ...l's house in Kent, Rebel quickly expands the setting to take in London and Wales, and is much more of a quest narrative. The Oakenwyld's exclusively female
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  • The Ice-Cold Heaven by Mirko Bonne
    ...man author creating this book, complete with an evocation of Merce's south Wales childhood and the very British sense of exploration and hero-worship so evi
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  • Silk by Penny Jordan
    ...tographer Cecil Beaton. It's a social circle which includes the Prince of Wales (with current married woman), the Mitford sisters and many others with whom
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  • 50 Things You Should Know About the Vikings by Philip Parker
    ...r 51, as the Vikings invaded every corner of Britain and Ireland – but not Wales, which only gets one single, solitary mention, and the student should want
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  • The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals by Wendy Jones
    It's Spring 1924 in South Wales, and young undertaker Wilfred is going to learn the hard way how serious th
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  • The Weight of Loss by Sally Oliver
    ...recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at N
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  • The Railwayman's Wife by Ashley Hay
    ...ve all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul, a close New South Wales coastal community, are parents to a lovely little girl and now, in 1948, Ma
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  • The Eyrie by Stevie Davies
    ...high-class flats with paper-thin walls, The Eyrie was the home of a South Wales copper baron, built on the exploitation of worker labour in the nineteenth
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  • Intermission by Owen Martell
    ...e Bill Evans is held in jazz circles, there may well be acclaim beyond the Wales Book of the Year award one of his earlier novels has already won.
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  • The Hosts of Rebecca by Alexander Cordell
    ..., who doesn't have the recognition he deserves, brings the people of South Wales to life. People suffering hardship so often become caricatures of themselv
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  • Katherine Swynford by Alison Weir
    ...widespread - among them our present Queen Elizabeth II, Diana Princess of Wales, almost every European monarch and five American presidents, including Geor
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  • Becoming Queen by Kate Williams
    ...lotte's parents, the fastidious, extravagant and selfish George, Prince of Wales and his loud-mouthed, evil-smelling, badly-dressed tomboy cousin Caroline o
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  • More Than Just A Hairdresser by Nia Pritchard
    ...ce of Liverpudlian vernacular – perhaps unusual for an author who lives in Wales. It's the same cast of characters, too – ''More Than Just A Hairdresser''
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  • Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
    ...e ago, in 1916, a little boy was born to Norwegian parents living in South Wales. His father was a successful businessman, but idiosyncratic to say the leas ...ather's death the Dahl family did not return home to Norway, but stayed in Wales, for Dahl senior had been a great supporter of the public school system and
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  • The Starlings and Other Stories by Ann Cleeves (editor)
    ...ary Sharratt's tale of witchcraft is the only story with a setting outside Wales - this time it's Whitby and the north Yorkshire moors. Jim Kelly's tale of
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  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Joe Dunthorne
    ...d novel at the moment. It's about a family who set up a commune (in either Wales or Scotland - I haven't decided yet...) It's about home schooling and porri
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  • Tiny Campsites: 80 Perfect Little Places to Pitch by Dixe Wills
    There's a good spread of locations across England, Wales and Scotland. Initially I thought that the book was going to be difficult
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  • Jam Tomorrow by Lorraine Jenkin
    ...e up with what seems like a good idea: walking holidays in the magical mid-Wales countryside. It ''looks'' to be quite a sound plan too. They'll take well
    4 KB (776 words) - 12:29, 5 April 2018
  • People of the Day 4: The Rich and Famous Caricatured by Peter Wynter Bee and Lucy Clapham
    ...teresting to read of his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia. The Prince of Wales' childhood could not have been more different but it's good to note that th
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  • The Favour by Laura Vaughan
    ...e such a turn-around. Her mother had sold the family home, Garreg Las, in Wales, after her father's death and bought a three-bed Edwardian terrace house in
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  • Handel: The Man and His Music by Jonathan Keates
    ...p in the crossfire between King George II and his son Frederick, Prince of Wales, who bitterly detested each other and walked a tightrope so as not to offen
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  • Conquest: Daughter of the Last King by Tracey Warr
    ...a surname to make hist-fict addicts smile!), the last king of Deheubarth, Wales. Playing on the beach with her brother one day she's captured by Norman so
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  • Defeating Hitler: Whitehall's Top Secret Report on Why Hitler Lost the War by Paul Winter
    ...land, as if Hitler could never have seen any need in attacking Scotland or Wales.
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  • The Black Prince by Michael Jones
    ...he end, Edward had the melancholy distinction of being the first Prince of Wales to predecease his father and never ascend the throne. The King outlived bot
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  • The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey by Tim Clarke
    ...have thought of her. The most notable of these was with George, Prince of Wales and later Prince Regent, whom she allegedly lured away from Maria Fitzherbe ...er. It is stated categorically that by 1797, two years after the Prince of Wales’s disastrous marriage, the Countess was ‘now without doubt the most unp
    5 KB (808 words) - 15:19, 8 April 2018
  • Dark Angels by Katherine Langrish
    ...e Lionheart and her background is the wild borderlands between England and Wales, where a clash of Celtic and Norman culture provides all sorts of fertile g
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  • On the Edge by Jenny Pitman
    ...husband dies of cancer, leaving her with two young children and a farm in Wales. She's successfully trained point-to-point horses and decides that she'll s
    5 KB (792 words) - 12:00, 6 March 2018
  • The Woolgrower's Companion by Joy Rhoades
    ...father agrees to take two onto his sheep farm in drought-ridden New South Wales. Kate is initially wary of the two men – Vittorio and Luca – but gradu
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  • The New Green Consumer Guide by Julia Hailes
    ...ch competition in those days - we were all still scoffing at the Prince of Wales for talking to his plants. Nineteen years on, it's a different ball game en
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  • A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble by Edzard Ernst
    ...this side of being vitriolic about the views and actions of the Prince of Wales, but makes clear that the Prince's advocacy of alternative treatments and t
    5 KB (829 words) - 16:34, 21 July 2022
  • I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson
    ...in love, and not with a silly boy at school, but with a man. He's not from Wales like she is, or even from Britain. He's much more mysterious and alluring.
    4 KB (821 words) - 11:43, 5 April 2018
  • Westminster Abbey: A Thousand Years of National Pageantry by Richard Jenkyns
    ...utional precedent by reading a lesson at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and a few years later his office pressed for him to have an enhanced role
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  • The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
    ...nd, cleaning the cathedral itself. There is an aged, dotty professor from Wales, two extremely curmudgeonly and bitter old gossips, and more than enough me
    5 KB (871 words) - 12:44, 20 August 2020
  • The Night of the Gun by David Carr
    ...hich I read some years ago. The story of how an ordinary bloke from South Wales came to have forty three aliases and twenty five companies through which to
    5 KB (902 words) - 15:10, 3 March 2018
  • Ashes and Sparks: Essays On Law and Justice by Stephen Sedley
    ...s an honorary Professor of Law at Warwick University and the University of Wales at Cardiff, and a Judicial Visitor at University College, London. He has
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  • Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2010 by Stanley Gibbons
    ...first day of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, and regional issues (Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, plus the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, the
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  • Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man by Claire Tomalin
    ...by the prospect of a visit from royalty, but when told that the Prince of Wales (who had not read a word of his writing) was coming to call on him at home
    5 KB (876 words) - 10:42, 8 September 2020
  • Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2012: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970 by Hugh Jefferies
    ...territory listings. The grouping of regional divisions, such as New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and other once philatelically-independent areas of Au
    5 KB (769 words) - 10:31, 27 February 2018
  • The Speed of Sound by Thomas Dolby
    ...howed more interest in asking him to try and obtain some wild ragwort from Wales for his llamas), obtained the services of a reluctant Dr Magnus Pyke to mak
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  • Bitter Sixteen by Stefan Mohamed
    ...to conjure up the relatable thrill of early Spiderman, grounds it in rural Wales, throws in a talking dog, a winding plot and fantastic twists, and peppers
    5 KB (791 words) - 09:36, 26 September 2020
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No. 1: Night of the Living Rerun; Coyote Moon; Portal Through Time by John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover and Alice Henderson
    ...vampire lord. We are treated to several trips into the past: first century Wales during the Roman invasion of Britain, the ancient Sumerian town of Uruk, th
    5 KB (784 words) - 09:31, 13 March 2018
  • The 49th Day by Helen Noble
    ...ing a disastrous marriage, Katherine Walsh travels to an island retreat in Wales in order to pick up the pieces of her life, relax and decide future directi
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  • Collect Autographs: An Illustrated Guide to Collecting and Investing in Autographs by Fraser's Autographs
    ...Royalty section – a signed photograph of 1960 from Alexandra, Princess of Wales. The only person with that title was the future Queen Alexandra, who died
    5 KB (810 words) - 10:34, 6 May 2018
  • Cut on the Bias by Stephanie Tillotson
    ...or Starve by Carole White and Sian Williams]] recounts real lives in South Wales. Two books of short stories by and mainly about women are [[Taking Picture
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  • Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors (The Wars of the Roses) by Conn Iggulden
    ...ance, drumming up resources for the return of their son, Edward, Prince of Wales. Elsewhere a 14 year old Henry Tudor is waiting at one of history's most i
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  • Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII's True Wife by Amy Licence
    ...a prelude to her betrothal and all-too brief marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales and eldest son of King Henry VII. Complex negotiations ensued between her f
    6 KB (925 words) - 16:57, 23 September 2020
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Matt Addis
    ...first time that I'd heard them all pronounced correctly since I left South Wales almost half a century ago.''' MA: Growing up in an economically-depressed former mining town in the South Wales Valleys in the 1980s, I clearly decided I wanted a life more like those gla
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  • The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
    ...es of evil with a very strange albino child named Bran in the mountains of Wales.
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  • ASO by Lindsey Mackie
    ...ound some of this vocabulary unconvincing and unnecessary. As someone from Wales, I found it hard to believe that Cymru has become Abovo and is merely used
    5 KB (824 words) - 07:47, 13 March 2018
  • The Petticoat Men by Barbara Ewing
    ...usan Clinton, daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, mistress to the Prince of Wales and wife of the gloriously named (ready?) Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, drunk
    5 KB (793 words) - 09:18, 22 March 2018
  • August 2010 Newsletter
    ...beans. Sue is enjoying her new office. Keith is making new pals in deepest Wales. And we're all reading lots and lots of lovely books.
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  • In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by S Morris and N Grueninger
    ...therine to Ludlow, where she briefly lived as husband of Arthur, Prince of Wales, and to Kimbolton, where she was confined in her last sad years. The briefl
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  • A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
    ...eyes), Bam Bam (a child trying out for gang recognition) Papa Lo and Josey Wales (both respected gang elders), a Rolling Stone journalist… The list goes
    5 KB (855 words) - 13:28, 12 August 2020
  • Discover the Best Literary Events: Top Book Festivals from Around the World
    In May, a unique event takes place in a small village in Wales - the Hay Festival, where not only writers, but also politicians, social ac
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  • Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2012 by Hugh Jefferies
    ...y of issue postmarks, postage dues, booklets, and the regional issues from Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, as well as the Channel Islands and Isle of Man
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  • What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain by Susan Duxbury-Neumann
    ...id the merchant banker Baring – one of the ancestors of Diana, Princess of Wales. German pork butchers opened shops in most British towns, thus becoming the
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  • The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne by Jonathan Stroud
    ...ers than actual Natives), and there are mentions of raids by the people of Wales who could maybe be analogous to Mexican bandits, although it's not really e
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  • Running the Show: Governors of the British Empire 1857-1912 by Stephanie Williams
    ...etter. It should be remembered that both Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, were in some ways considerably ahead of their time
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  • A World By Itself: A History of the British Isles by Jonathan Clark
    ...very rewarding historical overview. Unlike in a number of similar works, Wales, Scotland and Ireland all receive plenty of attention. And whereas some wr
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  • Nelson, Hitler and Diana by Richard D Ryder
    ...house making him suffer when she herself died? And can Diana, Princess of Wales' parents' divorce lead to a claim she was a sufferer of borderline personal
    6 KB (1,010 words) - 13:35, 9 April 2018
  • Elektra by Jennifer Saint
    ...rue prophecies, but never to be believed. The Crime Survey for England and Wales for the years ending March 2017 and March 2020 combined showed that fewer t
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  • Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times by Sarah Bradford
    ...is of the time, to the acrimonious breakdown of the Prince and Princess of Wales’s marriage and death of Diana six years later, times were indeed lean for
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  • Three Men and a Bradshaw by John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)
    So what we get through these five trips – the others, to Wales north and south, to the SW and to Scotland, is a great sense of how much ti
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  • Costa Prize 2010
    ...ven the unenviable remit by Westminster to 'sort out' a small community in Wales and drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st Century - but is he up to t
    6 KB (899 words) - 11:46, 31 January 2024
  • Tom Jones - The Life by Sean Smith
    |summary=An objective, comprehensive biography of the singer from South Wales who became one of the most popular vocalists of the modern musical age
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  • Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue Commonwealth & Empire Stamps 1840-1970 2011 by Hugh Jefferies
    ...ories are grouped together, so that the old issues for Tasmania, New South Wales et al and the more recent ones for Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, New Gu
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  • Grace: Her Lives - Her Loves: The startling royal exposé by Robert Lacey
    ...s also a strange irony in the fact that the then newly-married Princess of Wales made her first official solo visit overseas to represent the British royal
    6 KB (1,059 words) - 09:27, 9 April 2018
  • The White Queen of Middleham: Sprigs of Broom 1 by Lesley J Nickell
    ...and the aforementioned Margaret are told of the death of Edward, Prince of Wales in 1471. The following events vividly depict not only the gulf between the
    6 KB (1,048 words) - 14:22, 22 March 2018
  • A Book of Secrets, Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
    ...l who was to embark upon a dalliance, as is well known, with the Prince of Wales. Besides these, there was a voluptuous Spanish American lady in Rome whom E
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  • I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
    ...a Prince’s Trust Concert in London by special invitation of the Prince of Wales, who gave a television interview saying why he was such a fan. Even strang
    6 KB (1,061 words) - 11:13, 30 August 2020
  • Dead Scared by S J Bolton
    The final time slip takes us back to Wales, twenty-three years earlier, with a teenage boy irritated by his sister's m
    6 KB (1,023 words) - 09:34, 8 March 2018
  • The Princes In The Tower by Alison Weir
    ...ars. The disappearance ? and we assume, death ? of the erstwhile Prince of Wales and Duke of York has never, in the public imagination at least, been satisf
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  • Letters To Vicky by Andrew Roberts (Editor)
    ...pleasure-loving but unfailingly kind and affectionate 'Bertie', Prince of Wales and later King Edward VII, to name but a few topics. The earlier editions
    7 KB (1,140 words) - 12:34, 26 February 2018
  • An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village by Geert Mak
    ...rue for the dairy farmers around Jorwert as it is for the sheep farmers of Wales.
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  • The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
    |summary=Growing up among family secrets in Wales in the late 1950's comes alive in this Dylan Thomas-meets-Nina Bawden five
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  • The Insider by Piers Morgan
    ...f the first Labour government for decades, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, 9/11, Bush's war on terror and the invasion of Iraq. Interspersed are all
    7 KB (1,307 words) - 15:42, 30 March 2018
  • Chart Throb by Ben Elton
    ...e likeable character in the entire book. (Except, maybe, for the Prince of Wales - which quite possibly says it all.)
    7 KB (1,227 words) - 13:48, 15 March 2018
  • Whatever Love Means by David Baddiel
    On the day of the car crash that kills Diana, Princess of Wales, Vic and Emma begin an unlikely affair, partly sparked by the difference in
    7 KB (1,272 words) - 09:49, 20 March 2018
  • 1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo by Stephen Bates
    ...n was changing the face of the landscape, particularly in the Midlands and Wales where coal mines and ironworks were becoming the major source of employment
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  • Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2014
    ...ave all they could possibly want. They live in Thirroul, a close New South Wales coastal community, are parents to a lovely little girl and now, in 1948, Ma
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  • Sword At Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff
    ...There were Scots and Picts to the north; there were the Celtic tribes in Wales and the South West. The remnants of the Iceni and others in the East.
    8 KB (1,392 words) - 12:38, 22 March 2018
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Tricia Callow, sister of Lesley J Nickell
    ...daughter of a king-maker, rich heiress, married to a Lancastrian Prince of Wales and a Yorkist King, kept prisoner by her brother-in-law in a row between ro
    8 KB (1,382 words) - 08:03, 20 March 2015
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Anne Allen
    ...sea as you can get in the UK. However, my father was from Anglesey, North Wales and as a family we spent every summer holiday there until my teens. So I th
    8 KB (1,564 words) - 14:27, 2 November 2013
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Joanne Owen
    ...ng stuck into it. It's also likely I'll write a children's travel guide to Wales in the coming months – I'm from Pembrokeshire – and I hope to develop i
    8 KB (1,394 words) - 11:35, 8 November 2014
  • Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing
    ...s were children during the war – both of working-class backgrounds, one in Wales, one in the North-East of England – and I didn't come along until the ear
    8 KB (1,370 words) - 08:35, 13 April 2018
  • September 2015 Newsletter
    ...look at the plight of the workers in the coal and iron industries in South Wales in the first half of the nineteenth century. It has compelling writing and
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  • Melita Thomas Talks To Bookbag About The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and his Daughter Mary
    ...ne at Padua. On returning to England, he became tutor to Arthur, Prince of Wales. He published ''Rudimenta Grammatices'', which was based on Latin lessons h
    9 KB (1,457 words) - 13:11, 3 March 2018
  • Halting State by Charles Stross
    ...ful turn of phrase that the ex-industrial areas (Glasgow, Newcastle, South Wales) seem to excel at – and which only seems to work in context.
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  • Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley
    ...o look into improvements in housing for the working classes, the Prince of Wales spent too much time enjoying the good life, partying until all hours, eatin
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  • George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
    (My sometimes-better half, brought up in much more Welshy-Wales - Llanelli - recalls some children calling them ''siaci-siwmpers'' (said sh
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  • Long Road From Jarrow by Stuart Maconie
    ...erfan or Orgreave either, but the family are from the North-east and South Wales – two generations back they were all farmers or pitmen. Both of my grand
    9 KB (1,476 words) - 20:33, 16 February 2018
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Tom Clempson
    TC: I did go to university, I studied Film & Video at University of Wales Newport. I don’t actually remember writing my personal statement specific
    10 KB (1,823 words) - 17:28, 26 June 2013
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Stephanie Burgis
    SB: I won a bursary from Literature Wales this spring to work on a new historical fantasy adventure for children (ten
    10 KB (1,776 words) - 13:20, 1 October 2012
  • Newest Anthologies Reviews
    |summary=A little bit about Barry Holland: he was born in Newport, South Wales, to working-class parents. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favo
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  • Newest Literary Fiction Reviews
    ...recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at N
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  • Bookbag's Christmas Gift Recommendations 2010
    ...ri Strachan|The Earth Hums in B Flat]]. Growing up among family secrets in Wales in the late 1950's comes alive in this Dylan Thomas-meets-Nina Bawden five
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