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The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
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Jasper Fforde
In an alternate 1985, where the Crimean War still rages 130-odd years later, Thursday Next works for a special operations unit that prevents criminals from damaging the world of literature. Though normally a fairly low-stress job, it heats up for Thursday when one of the three most evil villains in the world is accused of permanently altering the ...
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Tuck
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Steve Lawhead, Stephen R Lawhead
The final installment of a completely re-imagined epic of the man known as Robin Hood. Told in a far more eerie, earthy, and elemental way than ever before, this book will radically alter everything known about the folklore hero.
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Reckoning
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Sharon Kay Penman
This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with "Here be Dragons", continued with "Falls the Shadow" and is now completed with "The Reckoning". The major figures in "The Reckoning" are the splendid dominant King of England, Edward I, and The ...
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Fairest of Them All
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Teresa Medeiros
Holly de Chastel had only found her beauty to be a curse. When the country's knights come from far and wide in a contest to win her hand, she makes herself homely to scare off the suitors. But the victor, Sir Austyn of Gavenmore, is perfectly content to have a homely wife. How long will Holly be able to hide her deception from her new husband?
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The White Goddess; a historical grammar of poetic myth
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Robert Graves
A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse - some dating from the Old Stone Age.
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Here be dragons
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Sharon Kay Penman
This is an absorbing historical novel of power and betrayal, loyalty and political intrigue in thirteenth-century England, Wales and France, centring on King John of England, younger brother to the brilliant Richard Lionheart, Joanna, his illegitimate but recognised daughter and Llewellyn Ab Iowerth, Prince of Gwynedd, a bitter opponent of English ...
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Wheel of Fortune
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Susan Howatch
For 50 years, from a summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s, an Anglo-Irish family, the Godwins, live through a cycle of passion, madness and death and do battle with the greatest illusion of them all - the search for truth.
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Mary Jones and Her Bible
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Mary Ropes
This bestselling Victorian classic is the true story of Mary Jones, a young girl with a love for the Lord and commitment to serve him sure to challenge any Christian today. As the story unfolds, readers will see Mary travel miles on foot to deliver Bibles. They will see a preacher and a schoolmaster, who couldn't read or write, slowly be drawn ...
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Josey Wales: Two Westerns: Gone to Texas/The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales
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Forrest Carter, Lawrence Clayton, Ph.D. (Afterword by)
Two classic westerns in one paperback--The Outlaw Josey Wales and Gone to Texas--the basis of Clint Eastwood's movie The Outlaw Josey Wales. By the author of The Education of Little Tree.
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Moment in Time
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Bertrice Small
Beretrice Small's seven passionate historical romances have earned her a permanent place in the hearts of readers, as well as on the bestseller lists. In her new triumph, set in 11th-century Wales, the author of "The Spitfire" and "Skye O'Malley" explores the story of an enchanted age of pride and passion, of good as pure as light and evil as dark ...
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The old devils
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Kingsley Amis
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, Amis's novel is a satirical but sympathetic portrait of a group of old retired pals in a Welsh town, stoically facing old age and the trials it brings: failing health, problems with booze, and romantic tangles. Kingsley Amis's son, the writer Martin Amis, considered this his father's masterpiece.
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Scarlet
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Stephen R Lawhead
The second installment of a completely re-imagined epic of the man known as Robin Hood is told in a far more eerie, earthly, and elemental way than ever before.
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The Eyre Affair
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Jasper Fforde
In an alternate 1985, where the Crimean War still rages 130-odd years later, Thursday Next works for a special operations unit that prevents criminals from damaging the world of literature. Though normally a fairly low-stress job, it heats up for Thursday when one of the three most evil villains in the world is accused of permanently altering the ...
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Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales
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Alwyn Rees, Brinley Rees
In this widely acclaimed study, Alwyn and Brinley Ress reinterpret Celtic tradition in the light of advances made in the comparative study of religion, mythology and anthropology. Part One considers the distinguishing features of the various Cycle of tales and the personages who figure most prominently in them. Part Two reveals the cosmological ...
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How Green Was My Valley
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Richard Llewellyn
This classic coming-of-age story, set in a Welsh valley before the turn of the 20th century, includes a large cast of characters but views the events mainly through the eyes of young Huw Morgan. The romantic relationships of a large extended family are juxtaposed with the early stirrings of the trades union movement in Britain, as the miners ...
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Castle
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David Macaulay
The planning and construction of a castle and adjoining town in 13th-century Wales. Although the castle and the town described are imaginary, they are based on several castles and towns established in Wales between 1277 and 1305. Illustrated with detailed b&w drawings.
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The Citadel
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A J Cronin
A critical look at the ethics of the medical profession, this is the story of a bright young doctor struggling to make it in a competitive field. The novel caused an outcry in Great Britain when it was published because it took the view that, in the struggle between integrity and ambition, integrity too often loses. The novel is also about the ...
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Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
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Patrick K Ford (Editor)
The title "Mabinogi" refers to the first four stories in this collection of tales from Welsh tradition. They are best known as the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi," and comprise the tales of Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math. The remaining stories also spring from the same tree, and together they form a collection that comprises the core of the ...
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Thomas Keneally
Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales.
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Under Milk Wood
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Dylan Thomas
In 1951, two years before his death, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of ...
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Mabinogion
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Jeffrey Gantz (Designer)
Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the "Mabinogion" passed from generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we know. Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and the shadowy otherworld, the tales are permeated by a dreamlike atmosphere. In "Math Son of Mathonwy" ...
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Evans to Betsy
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Rhys Bowen
Betsy, the barmaid at the Red Dragon, is told that she may have psychic gifts and agrees to be tested at the Sacred Grove New Age Center. When the center's director goes missing, one of Betsy's dreams helps to locate the body. Constable Evans has his suspicions, and one thing Besty may not be able to foresee is the danger she'll soon be in. Martin ...
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The Perils of Pursuing a Prince
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Julia London
Desperate to avoid being married off to the first bidder, Greer Fairchild travels to Wales to obtain an advance on her inheritance from her uncle. But upon arrival, she learns her uncle died and a distant relative, Rhodrick Glendower, the Prince of Powys and the Earl of Radnor, now controls her inheritance. A man rumoured to have a dark past, the ...
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The Day-To-Day Life of Albert Hastings
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Kaylynn Deveney (Photographer), Albert Hastings (Text by)
When Albert Hastings was eighty-five years old, photographer KayLynn Deveney moved near his small flat in Wales. KayLynn took notice of the small rituals and routines gardening, laundry, grocery shopping that made up Bert's life. A friendship slowly developed as KayLynn began photographing parts of Bert's day. The two developed a simple yet ...
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Evan's Gate
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Rhys Bowen
When Welsh constable Evan Evans finds the skeleton of a young child buried in the front yard of a shepherd's cottage, the discovery eerily coincides with a present-day missing child case that's suddenly taking up all of the constable's time. Martin's Press.
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