The appearance of My People in 1915 caused a literary sensation. In England critics praised it as a work of art comparable with Zola and new writers such as Joyce.

My People

Literature & Fiction

Evans, Caradoc

Contemporary

Seren

The Green Bridge: Stories from Wales

This anthology of Welsh short stories offers a chronological overview of the form in Wales during the last century. Twenty-five English-language writers provide one story each to produce an entertaining and varied anthology. Tales of horror, satire, humor, war, the aristocracy, love, madness, indus

Parenting & Relationships

On Becoming a Fish

Emily Hinshelwood

She Inserts the Key

Burton, Marianne

Poetry

In the spring of 1940, Elsa Jones finds herself lonely and homesick in a changing Hong Kong as war threatens. Bomb shelters spring up and soldiers appear on the streets. When Hong Kong falls to the Japanese, Elsa and her husband Tommy are captured and interned in a makeshift camp on the southern side of the island, where, along with the rest of the colonial elite, they struggle to survive in hostile surroundings. Several years later, they return to Wales with their six-year-old daughter Mari, who has only ever known life in the camp. A story of war told from the edges, this book interweaves four separate accounts—Elsa, her Chinese servant Lin, Tommy, and Mari—to relate the intimate havoc wrought by military conflict on individual lives.

The Rice Paper Diaries

Rhydderch, Francesca

Genre Fiction

In the late 1990s, Hilary Menos made the unusual move from Camden Town to a Devon farmhouse, two miles to the nearest village. Over the next ten years, she and her family turned the hundred acres into an organic farm, complete with a herd of Red Devon cows. This collection reveals her experiences as a 'blow in' from upcountry, moving into a tight-knit rural community and witnessing first-hand the conflict between farming tradition and modern commerce.

Red Devon

Menos, Hilary

In Port au Prince, Haiti, the police roam the streets and no one is safe. Fignolé, a musician and political radical, is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colorful bustle, urban deprivation, and political tension of the city; when they eventually locate him, they will have found more about themselves than they wanted to know. This story explores one day and three lives in a city where love is hard to find, life is cheap, and death is all too familiar. It is the tense, passionate, and vividly told story of small victories of hope in the face of a seemingly impossible fight against a monolithic regime.

The Colour of Dawn

Lahens, Yanick

Layland, Alison

Literary

Following his books on wells in Wales and Cornwall, Phil Cope journeys up and down the borderlands between Wales and England and through history, from pre-Christian times through Roman and early Christian times, the medieval Age of the Princes in Wales and on to Victorian and the contemporary period. His discoveries are recorded in striking and atmospheric photographs and are accompanied by the remarkable histories of the sacred wells that have played an important part in the culture and landscape of the region, and the legends attached to them. Wronged suitors, magic horses, Dark Age battles, the reign of King Arthur, and innumerable decapitations feature among the vividly magical tales. Richly illustrated in color throughout, the wells from Cheshire to Monmouthshire, from the Dee to the Severn, are here displayed in all their glory, be they in remote countryside or city center.

Borderlands: New Photographs and Old Tales of Sacred Springs, Holy Wells and Spas of the Wales–England Borders

History

Cope, Phil

Europe

Though not the first anorexic, Sarah Jacob, “the Welsh fasting girl,” was arguably the first to cause a national uproar when she dominated the press in 1869, becoming something of a celebrity. Despite a team of nurses from Guy’s Hospital stationed at her home in Lletherneuadd, Sarah died, and the best minds in British medicine theorized about the cause of her apparently supernatural existence: living in spite of starvation. This human story shows how Sarah was made to be the center of a lucrative and media-hungry “spin” on the 19th-century nexus of knowledge between science and superstition, folk-belief and religious asceticism. New ground is covered in examining the medical issues surrounding the case, the legal complexities, and the interpretation of a newly enacted law that reformulated serious crime, the prison life of Sarah’s parents—who were convicted of manslaughter—and the significance of folklore and superstition in an unusual and yet all-too-familiar story.

The Girl Who Lived on Air: The Mystery of Sarah Jacob: The Welsh Fasting Girl

Health, Fitness & Dieting

WADE, Stephen

Diseases & Physical Ailments

The Museum of Disappearing Sounds

Skoulding, Zoë

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