With the subjects ranging from language to battles, from ancient laws to contemporary sport, from food and drink to love and longing, this collection conjures up the spirit of the Welsh in all its seriousness and playful frivolity.

Wales - an Anthology

Williams, Kyffin

Thomas Ellis, Alice

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

Mary, mourning the death of her son Robin, is at the home of her widowed mother, when a motley group of relatives arrives for Christmas and a severe snowstorm strands them all together

The birds of the air

Duckworth & Co.

London 1985 3rd impression of first edition. Duckworth. Hardcover sm octavo. 155p. Fine in Fine DJ. ISBN 07156 2070 3.

Unexplained Laughter

Contemporary

Gerald Duckworth Co Ltd

Home Life

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Alice Thomas Ellis is a celebrated British novelist and columnist. As a polemicist she has often hit the headlines in her attacks on the liberalizing tendencies of Church leaders and their obsession with political correctness. In this highly readable collection of magazine columns, Thomas Ellis argues that disillusion with organized religions stems from Church leaders and theologians who water down the essentials of the Christian faith. Their obsession with being 'relevant' means they have flung out the essentials. Her writing is witty, acerbic and compelling.

God Has Not Changed: The Assembled Thoughts Of Alice Thomas Ellis

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Bloomsbury Academic

Mary felt rather like someone for whom a marriage was being arranged by people who doubted the suitability of the match but could think of no seemly way of retiring. Her family and friends behaved like outsiders privy to a secret and dubious courtship, treating her with an arch, considered and wholly unnatural care, whispering together and falling silent when they remembered her sitting by the window and possibly listening. Mary Marsh has lost her only child, but rather than allow her peace in which to grieve, her mother cajoles her into participating in a proper family Christmas. As the various guests arrive, Mary's sister Barbara, Barbara's children and husband, Barbara's lover, Barbara's husband's lover ("the Thrush"), Vera and Dennis the neighbors, a grown cat and a kitten, the house descends into farcical chaos.

The Birds of the Air

Literary

Corsair

Behaving badly made Lydia feel better. She hoped she wasn't turning into one of those maniacs who murder people in order to establish their superiority over their fellows who say Please and Thank you and conform to the basic customs of society. Recovering from a love affair gone wrong, Lydia retreats to the Welsh countryside, leaving behind her sophisticated friends, but accidentally inviting Betty, "the human equivalent of sackcloth and ashes," as her companion. There they encounter Hywel, a dour farmer, Elizabeth, his nervous wife, the aspiring priest Beuno, Hywel's brother, and randy Doctor Wyn. Meanwhile Hywel's strange sister Angharad roams the land, observing all, while Lydia is increasingly unnerved by the unexplained laughter that comes down from the hills.

Humpty Dumpty (Playtime)

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

CYP Ltd

Weihnachten am Ende der Welt

Insel Verlag GmbH

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