The author describes the long friendship between her husband and the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, and discusses Thomas's influence on Watkins' own poetry

Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins: Portrait of a Friendship

Watkins, Gwen

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Washington Pr

Dickens in search of himself: Recurrent themes and characters in the work of Charles Dickens

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan

Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student.

Dickens in Search of Himself: Recurrent Themes and Characters in the Work of Charles Dickens

British & Irish

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Portrait of a friend, hardcover, Fair, Volume very good; jacket good except for remains of sticker on front cover. 226 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.. . Includes index..

Portrait of a friend

Gomer Press

Gwen Watkins' penetrating and honest account of the friendship between her husband, the poet Vernon Watkins and Dylan Thomas. An evocative book recalling the 'Kardomah days' of Swansea cafe society; new introduction by Paul Ferris.

Dylan Thomas -Portrait of a Friend

Arts & Literature

Y Lolfa

Although the book is scholarly in approach, its plain and lively style, its original theories and its new treatment of Dickens' female characters ensures its accessibility and appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist student.

Contemporary

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

People are hungry for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Those who have never received this infilling are curious and often afraid of it. Yet, their curiosity compels them to read books about it, even if under cover, so their friends will not make fun of them .As my question was, How does one receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit?, I too, wanted to reject what I read until I found out that others had experienced the same doubts. I wanted to know how it happened for someone else, but no one could tell me. That is why I wrote it exactly as it happened to me. Otherwise, I would not have been able to remember it and tell others. Many churches have bookstores and the hungry are buying books to help them understand the spiritual and supernatural gifts of God. They desire to find the power God has made available for them, sensing that it is there, but seeking to understand it and have it as a part of their lives. Everyone’s experience will be different, but I pray that readers will recognize enough similarities in this book to direct them toward receiving the power of the Holy Spirit for themselves.

Angel Food

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

Publishamerica Inc

’An intriguing page-turning and personal account of that most secretive of wartime institutions, Bletchley Park, and of the often eccentric people who helped to win the war’ – Beryl BainbridgeBletchley Park, or 'Station X', was home to the most famous code breakers of the Second World War. The 19th-century mansion was the key center for cracking German, Italian and Japanese codes, providing the allies with vital information. After the war, many intercepts, traffic-slips and paperwork were burned (allegedly at Churchill's behest). The truth about Bletchley was not revealed until F. Winterbotham's The Ultra Secret was published in 1974. However, nothing until now has been written on the German Air Section. In Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes, former WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) Gwen Watkins brings to life the reality of this crucial division. In a highly informative, lyrical account, she details her eventful interview, eventual appointment at the 'the biggest lunatic asylum in Britain', methods for cracking codes, the day-to-day routine and decommissioning of her section.

Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes: The Secrets of Bletchley Park

History

Europe

Frontline Books

Bletchley Park, or Station X, was home to the most famous codebreakers of the Second World War. The 19th century mansion was the key center for cracking German, Italian and Japanese codes, providing the allies with vital information. After the war, many intercepts, traffic-slips and paperwork were burned (allegedly at Churchill's behest). The truth about Bletchley was not revealed until F. Winterbotham's The Ultra Secret was published in 1974. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, codebreakers including Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and Jim Rose had devised methods to allow them to read enemy codes, often within hours of the messages being received. New technology was invented to automate the deciphering of messages. Colossus, the world's first semi-programmable computer was invented at Bletchley to aid the decoding of Lorenz ciphers, used by the German High Command to send their most highly-classified and importantßcommunications. The codebreakers also had tremendous success in defeating the Luftwaffe's AuKa codes. In The Secrets of Bletchley, former WAAF (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) Gwen Watkins brings to life the reality of the German Air Section. Her memoir is the first account of this crucial division. In a highly informative, lyrical account, she details her eventful interview, eventual appointment at the µthe biggest lunatic asylum in Britain', methods for cracking codes, the day-to-day routine and decommisioning of her section. Lord Asa Briggs is a renowned historian who also served at Bletchley Park.

Military

Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal

Using genetics, experimental abnormal and clinical psychology, personality research, descriptive psychiatry and literary analysis, the authors present the revolutionary idea that normality and psychosis are continuous with each other. This groundbreaking work explores the lives and works of ten authors, among them Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, who embody both serious mental illness and great originality of thought. The book draws upon personal diaries, historical archives, clinical records and literary productions, and examines modes of thinking such as divergent thought, over-inclusiveness, and autism, which psychosis and creativity might have in common.

Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors

Claridge, Gordon

Pryor, Ruth

Malor Books

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Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins: Portrait of a Friendship

Dickens in search of himself: Recurrent themes and characters in the work of Charles Dickens

Dickens in Search of Himself: Recurrent Themes and Characters in the Work of Charles Dickens

Portrait of a friend

Dylan Thomas -Portrait of a Friend

Dickens in Search of Himself: Recurrent Themes and Characters in the Work of Charles Dickens

Angel Food

Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes: The Secrets of Bletchley Park

Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes: The Secrets of Bletchley Park

Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors