Cardigan parthian (497 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The ninth title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. An autobiographical novel which interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backcloth of the thirties - unemployment and the rise of Hitler and Mussolini etc. the story is told with warm humour, lyricism and honesty. Reprint; published in 2006.|Y nawfed gyfrol yn y gyfres Library of Wales. Dyma nofel hunagofiannol sy'n plethu ynghyd themau cyffredinol a phersonol. Bwrir golwg ar hynt a thrafferthion teulu Iddewig Cymreig yng nghyd-destun cythryblus y tridegau - diweithdra, a dyfodiad Hitler a Mussolini. Adroddir y stori gydag hiwmor gwresog, gonestrwydd, mewn dull telynegol. Adargraffiad; cyhoeddwyd yn 2006. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In his fourth novel, award-winning author Tristan Hughes returns to the landscape of his youth in this vivid and poetic coming-of-age story about death, life, and the changes they bring. Set against the harsh, unforgiving beauty of the forests of northern Ontario, Hummingbird unravels a moving tale of loss, absence and redemption. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Griff Rhys Jones is searching for that Welsh part of himself that he has felt ever since being forced to sing in the choir in church and pack down for the school first XV, all in suburban Essex.|Arweinlyfr anffurfiol i Gymru gan Griff Rhys Jones, a anwyd yng Nghaerdydd ac a fagwyd yn swydd Essex. Dilynwn yr awdur wrth iddo ddychwelyd i wlad ei gyndeidiau er mwyn darganfod y Gymru go iawn sy'n cuddio y tu hwnt i lwybrau'r ymwelydd cyffredin ac sy'n llawn o drysorau cudd a chymeriadau unigryw. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1880. Pearl, Jack and Nicholas play among the fishing boats of Skommow Bay, not understanding the undercurrents beneath their games. As they grow older, the choices they make shape the pattern of their lives. 1936 and everything has changed. The fish have stopped coming and the Pilchard Palace is abandoned. Pearl, exiled in favour of holidaymakers, turns to the memory of her great love, and her greatest loss. She's waiting for her own visitor. Will he come for her? The sea's ghosts are stirring. The past can be more alive than the present.The fictional village in which the novel is set is based on St Ives. The Visitor is a novel steeped in the coast and people of Cornwall. It shivers and flashes with visions as elusive as the fish at the centre of its story. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Loud Music Makes you Drive Faster is Mark's first collection of poetry, an anthology of his spoken word performances. Surreal, playful and sometimes tender, these poems sit in the tradition of spoken word pioneered by Roger McGough, John Cooper Clarke and Hollie McNish. Robot train inspectors, static caravans and museum statues all get a voice, as well as Lionel Richie songs that didn't chart, a poem written backwards and the historical revelation that at Waterloo, Napoleon did not surrender. Along the way, there are musings on ageing, travelling, fatherhood, falling in love and falling out of love. There's a Ballad for David Dimbleby, Shakespearian football results and the week in Bee Gee news. And if you've ever wondered what happens when Philip Larkin goes on holiday, or what a haiku about cleaning products looks like - read on. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Mark is a UK National Poetry Slam finalist, a John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry finalist and has been longlisted for the National Poetry Prize. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A phenomenon in Turkey with more than 120,000 copies sold, Women who Blow on Knots chronicles a voyage reaching from Tunisia to Lebanon, taken by three young women and septuagenarian Madam Lilla. Although the three young women embark on the road for different reasons - for each holds a dark secret - it is only at the journey's point of no return that Lilla's own murderous motivations for the trip become clear.Unique and controversial in its country of origin for its political rhetoric and strong, atypically Muslim female characters, Temelkuran weaves an empowering tale that challenges us to ponder not only the social questions of politics, religion and women in the Middle East, but also the universal bonds of sister- and motherhood.Ultimately, the novel begs the reader to mediate on the greatest problem women face today - can the power we hold make us happy, and how? The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In this stunning series of interconnected tales, fires both literal and metaphorical, local and all-encompassing, blaze together to herald the emergence of a singular new Welsh literary voice.|Casgliad o straeon cysylltiol am danau llythrennol a throsiadol, tanau cyfyngedig ac eang, oll yn ffrwydro ynghyd i gyhoeddi llais llenyddol Cymreig newydd. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Often provocative, sometimes funny, this collection ranges from ferocious performance poetry to an increasingly bittersweet seam of writing, both challenging and honest. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. At the heart of Dai Country - the central valleys of twentieth-century south Wales from the 1930s to the 1970s - was the metropolis of Pontypridd, and it is from this vantage point in time and space that Alun Richards cast his baleful eye on the personal relationships and social ambitions of the inhabitants of this much-fabled country.|Gosodir y straeon byrion sy'n Dai Country yng nghymoedd de Cymru yn ystod y cyfnod rhwng 1930 ac 1970, gyda Phontypridd yn ganolbwynt. Mae Alun Richards yn bwrw golwg ar berthynas pobl a'i gilydd ac ar uchelgais cymdeithasol trigolion Pontypridd. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. An entertaining collection of five emotionally powerful and thought-provoking plays by a contemporary dramatist, namely 'Birthmarks', 'Downtown Paradise', 'Mr Owen's Millennium', 'Playing Burton', including a conversation between the dramatist and Hazel Walford Davies and a selection of review excerpts.|Casgliad difyr o bum drama bwerus i ysgogi trafodaeth gan ddramodydd cyfoes, sef 'Birthmarks', 'Downtown Paradise', 'Mr Owen's Millennium', 'Nora's Bloke' a 'Playing Burton', ynghyd a sgwrs rhwng y dramodydd a Hazel Walford Davies a detholiad bytiau o adolygiadau. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The Lake is a raw account of life in a devastated land and the harsh, primitive circumstances under which people fight to survive. The story is located in a fishing village at the end of the world, with a lake that is drying up and, ominously, pushing out its banks. The men have vodka, the women troubles, the children eczema to scratch at. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In Ron Berry's masterpiece, and kaleidoscopic history of the South Wales valleys, lovers Rees Stevens and Ellen Vaughan must discover and interpret Ellen's father's journal.|Dyma gampwaith Ron Berry campwaith, sy'n cynnig golwg ar hanes cymoedd y de. Mae'n rhaid i'r ddau gariad, Rees Stevens a Ellen Vaughan, ddarganfod a dehongli dyddiadur tad Ellen. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Snowdonia, 1880, and Jane Gruffydd is a newcomer to the district, dressed to the nines and almost fainting in the heat of the interminable prayer meeting out on the mountainside. In the pages of this classic 1936 novel, we see the passionate and headstrong Jane grow up and grow old, struggling to bring up a family of six children on the pittance earned by her slate-quarrying husband, Ifan. Spanning the next forty years, the novel traces the contours not only of one vividly evoked Welsh family but of a nation coming to self-consciousness; it begins in the heyday of Methodist fervour and ends in the carnage and disillusionment of the First World War. Through it all, Jane survives, the centre of her world and the inspiration for her children who will grow up determined to change the conditions of these poor peoples lives, to release them forever from their chains. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 2nd prt. 8vo, 299 pp., The Library of Wales series.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In July 2013, David Thatcher died of a drug overdose in America. More than you were was written by his daughter, to try to understand what came after. The result is a striking collection of poetry which explores addiction, family politics, childhood memories and grief. Her short, sharp poems home in on situations to reveal their complex relationship and the challenges she faced after losing him. Thatcher weaves the darkest memories - the murder of pets, the burning down of a childhood home, the blood stains on white tiles - with ones which betray a tenderness and love. A brave debut, More than you were, explores what it means to lose a father to an addiction and live on. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Lewis has written a script. Eighty pages in ten days. Hardly slept. He taps the bag on his shoulder with a delicate fingertip like its a hot kettle. Cliff is then given ten minutes on the problem with Lewiss printer. Then the history of problems with his printer. Then problems with printers more generally. Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest film for a festival prize. It has taken seven gruelling years of his life to make and is definitely NOT a film about his mother. But his moment in the spotlight is not quite as he scripted. There are rumours the jury could be influenced. Nobody can lay their hands on a copy of the film. And even his girlfriend thinks its about his mother. Cliffs producer has not turned up but sent his nephew Lewis Proudfoot instead. Lewis has a script of his own to sell and is determined that everyone should hear about it. Then a meeting is arranged with a group of the festival organisers friends, who may or may not be revolutionaries. Angels of Cairo is a fast-moving, acerbic comedy told over a single day but capturing a lifetime of angst and self-doubt. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In every atlas there is a country missing from the maps of South America: the Andean nation. For five months John Harrison journeys through this secret country, walking alone into remote villages where he is the first gringo the inhabitants have ever seen, and where life continues as if Columbus had never sailed. He lives at over 10,000 feet for most of the trip, following the great road of the Incas: the Camino Real, or Royal Road. Hand built over 500 years ago, it crosses the most difficult and dangerous mountains in all the Americas, diving into sweltering canyons and soaring up into the snows. 1500 miles, half of it on foot, takes him from the Equator to Cuzco and the most magical city of all: Machu Picchu. He is attacked, gets lost and is trapped by floods, but only when he goes home does he lose what he wants most. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Trystan Morgan's journey through the conflicting cultural, social and political values of his country in the mid-twentieth century is bewildering but finally liberating. And through the glittering, crowded, kaleidoscopic images of this bravura novel, the author creates a rich impression of people and place - a Wales which is a landscape of the mind.|Taith Trystan Morgan trwy ferw diwylliannol, cymdeithasol a gwleidyddol yng nghanol yr ugeinfed ganrif. Yn gymysg a'r darluniau byw, ceir yma hefyd bortread o bobl a lleoedd a thirwedd. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The third title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. Three novellas distinguished by their astonishing portrayal of incest, murder, and devastating tragic humour. The stories include themes such as sexual and family power, death and exploitation. The final story 'The Dark Philosophers' is a grimly humorous account of three men who gather to discuss revenge.|Y drydedd gyfrol yn y gyfres garreg filltir Library of Wales. Tair nofel fer yn cynnwys portread iasol o losgach, llofruddiaeth a hiwmor tywyll. Ceir themau fel grym rhywiol a theuluol, a marwolaeth. Y mae'r stori olaf 'The Dark Philosophers' yn adrodd hanes tri dyn sy'n cyfarfod mewn caffi Eidaleg i drafod trasiedi y maent hwy wedi ei dyfeisio am ddial a dynladdiad. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. When Hernan Cortes met the Mayans, Aztecs and other cultures of the gulf coast of Mexico in 1519, it was the first extended contact between the peoples of continental America and Europe. The Spanish found cities larger and better run than any in Europe, and pyramids greater than Egypts. The Aztecs believed time was running down and they lived in the final age of the world. Many Spaniards believed Christs millennium was approaching, and Gods revelation of Americas had opened the final act: the conversion of the remote races of the earth. After the Day of Judgement Gods experiment with man was over. The laboratory, the physical world, would be destroyed. Both cultures were acting out the last days.Halfway through researching this book John Harrison had a scan which told him he would not live to write it; he was seeing out his own days.The Aztec people were concerned with the transitory nature of worldly things; some of their rulers were revered as much for their philosophical poetry as their conquests. John Harrison follows Cortess route along the Mexican coast and across country to modern Mexico City, home of the Aztecs. A journey within journeys to the end of time, the book becomes a meditation on time, on mortality and self, from a modern master of travel writing. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Seven Days is a story of adventure and spirituality as father and son travel the Rue du Bonjour across the pilgrim route of the high Pyrenees. 25 black and white photographs, illustrations and maps. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. One of Merthyrs Victorian brickyard girls, Saran watches the world parade past her doorstep on the banks of the stinking and rat-infested Morlais Brook: the fair-day revellers; the chapel-goers and the funeral processions. She never misses a trip to the towns wooden theatres, despite her life ruled by the 5 a.m. hooter, pit strikes, politics and the First World War that takes away so many of her children. Her Glyn will work a treble shift for beer money; her brother Harry is the districts most notorious drinker and fighter until he is saved. The town changes and grows but Saran is still there for Glyn, for Harry, for her children and grandchildren. In his 1935 novel Black Parade, writer, soldier and political activist Jack Jones creates a superbly riotous, clear and unsentimental picture of Merthyr life as his home town reels headlong into the twentieth century. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. A selection of 30 varied short stories by 30 post-1948 Welsh writers, translated from the original Welsh by Meic Stephens, a prolific translator and editor who wishes to bring the works of modern Welsh writers to the attention of a wider audience. First published in 1999.|Detholiad o 30 stori fer amrywiol gan 30 llenor Cymraeg, wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Gymraeg gan Meic Stephens, cyfieithydd a golygydd toreithiog sy'n dymuno dwyn gweithiau llenorion Cymraeg cyfoes i sylw cynulleidfa ehangach. Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn 1999. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A selection of 30 varied short stories by 30 post-1948 Welsh writers, translated from the original Welsh by Meic Stephens, a prolific translator and editor who wishes to bring the works of modern Welsh writers to the attention of a wider audience. First published in 1999.|Detholiad o 30 stori fer amrywiol gan 30 llenor Cymraeg, wedi eu cyfieithu o'r Gymraeg gan Meic Stephens, cyfieithydd a golygydd toreithiog sy'n dymuno dwyn gweithiau llenorion Cymraeg cyfoes i sylw cynulleidfa ehangach. Cyhoeddwyd gyntaf yn 1999. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Three very different men struggle with thoughts of belonging, loss, identity and love as they attempt to find a place for themselves in Britain. The Magistrate tries to create new memories and roots, fusing a wandering exploration of Edinburgh with music. The Maestro, a depressed, quixotic character, sinks out of the real world into the fantastic world of literature. The Mathematician, full of youth, follows a carefree, hedonistic lifestyle, until their three universes collide. In this carefully crafted, multi-layered novel, Tendai Huchu, with his inimitable humour, reveals much about the Zimbabwe story as he draws the reader deep into the lives of the three main characters. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Edward Thomas and Wales offers a fascinating re-evaluation of Thomas's writing. Bringing together for the first time the prose and poetry centred in Thomas's ancestral land of Wales, it explores the 'Welshness' of Thomas's work and of Thomas himself. It offers us a context for the subjects, language choices, and tales that were informed by Thomas's childhood.|Mae'r gyfrol Edward Thomas and Wales yn cynnig ailwerthfawrogiad o waith Edward Thomas (1878-1917). Trwy ddwyn ynghyd ei farddoniaeth a'i ryddiaith am y tro cyntaf, archwilir Cymreictod y bardd a'r llenor a'i waith. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In 1957 Marlon Brando married a young studio actress called Anna Kashfi. He was thirty-three and at the pinnacle of his fame. The wedding was front-page news. His new bride was twenty-three, claimed to be an Indian princess and was pregnant. The day after the wedding a factory worker in Wales revealed that Brando's bride was his daughter, Joan. This book sets out to discover the truth.|Ym mis Hydref 1957 priododd Marlon Brando actores Indiaidd o'r enw Anna Kashfi; roedd hi'n dair ar hugain oed ac yn feichiog. Y diwrnod canlynol, honnodd William O'Callaghan, gweithiwr ffatri o Gymru mai ei ferch ef oedd Anna Kashfi, mai ei henw oedd Joan O'Callaghan a'i bod yn gweithio mewn siop cigydd yng Nghaerdydd. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A brooding, murder mystery that hinges on the dark edges of imagination. A death on the mountain but no body, only rumours. Elan has been missing for two years. Her people presume she has abandoned the mountain to live with the Travellers who collect crystals from the quarries every Summer. Nye John, a friend of Elan, lives alone in a remote cottage on the far side of the Brechfa. He has lost valuable stock to unaccountable kills over the winter. He forms a theory that wolves from the North are running on the High Vans again. Not many people believe him but it is enough to start a rumour of something unaccounted for on the mountain. Elan's brother Cain still farms his land to the rim of the Vans. He has also lost stock to unaccountable kills. He needs to believe there are only rumours hiding on the open mountain. The rumours grow as the winter begins to grip the mountain and the truth decides to come down from the High Vans. Elan has been missing for two years. Her people presume she just abandoned the mountain but Nye John, a friend of Elan, and Elan's brother Cain have lost valuable stock to unaccountable kills. The rumours grow as the winter begins and the truth decides to come down from the High Vans. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Translated by Caroline Waight Kristian Bang Foss darkly comic, prize-winning road-novel satire sees two unlikely friends set out to defy the Danish welfare state and Death himself with both hilarious and tragic consequences. Life is looking pretty bleak for Asger. After a fiasco at work finds him unceremoniously booted from both his advertising job and his family home, he finds himself the carer of Waldemar, arguably Denmarks sickest man. Their initial days together in a Copenhagen ghetto only serve to pile on the hopelessness. But then Waldemar hatches a plan: fabled healer Torbi el Mekki offers a miracle cure to all who seek an audience. Only thing is, hes in Morocco over two thousand miles and another continent away. Piling into a beaten-up Volkswagen, the two set off on a zany road trip across Europe towards a dubious salvation. But it soon seems they may have unwanted company, for on their tail is a pitch-black Audi. Tender and indignant, satiric and apocalyptic, wildly, flamingly funny. - Weekendavisen With Kristian Bang Foss, the devil created the world, both nature and culture, both the desert and the local authorities. This creates devilish humor and poetry. It is hopelessly sad and it is damn funny. - Politiken. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. In Windfalls, Wild writes of fruit blown down by the wind, of unexpected and unearned gains which renew the beauty and joy of life. Here flying trampolines disrupt trains, apples carpet gardens, the Balloon Girl rises and the red moon sinks. In a city of ups and downs the Handkerchief Tree rare-blooms, fists and knickers are flung, crestfallen angels consider dates, carnivores go hungry, wedding vows are made and a pandemic honeymoon is cancelled. These are also stories of heroines who fall or jump from pedestals, taking risks in a world that is often dangerous for women, but refusing to settle for the conventional. Wild continues to bring us her refreshingly slant world view, whether unpicking the domestic, the political or the environmental. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…