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Wings over Wales
Llywelyn Vaughan, Cadwaladr Gough et al. ‘Pterosaurs in Late Jurassic Wales.’ Mesozoica Cambrensis Vol IV No 1, 2019
In this interesting monograph from the academic journal Mesozoica Cambrensis the authors describe initial research into two pterosaurs from the Late Jurassic period (200 to 145 million years ago) recently uncovered from the Snowdonia eminence known as Dinas Emrys.
The Mesozoic…
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DEWITHON WEEK 2: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies
DEWITHON WEEK 2: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies
A Brief Summation of Chapters 8-14 – From ‘A Prisoner His Own Judge’ to ‘The House Boat’
“It is to be noted that Mr. Davies is no propogandist of the illusions of the middle-class tramp fancier. He does not tell you that there is honour among tramps: on the contrary, he makes it clear that only by being too destitute to be worth robbing and murdering can a tramp insure himself against being…
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'The Long Dry' by Cynan Jones – Life and Death on the Farm
‘The Long Dry’ by Cynan Jones – Life and Death on the Farm
‘The Long Dry’ by Cynan Jones (2017) – 117 pages
This month is the Wales Readathon hosted by Paula Bardell Hedley at Book Jotter. (Twitter hashtag #dewithon19 and/or #walesreadathon19). By a rare coincidence I recently completed ‘The Long Dry’ by Cynan Jones from Wales so I am posting this review as part of the Wales Readathon.
‘The Long Dry’ is a fatalistic Welsh farm novel. Everything about…
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A classic in the making
A classic in the making
Catherine Fisher: The Clockwork Crow Firefly Press 2018
Catherine Fisher’s children’s fantasy has many of those wonderful spooky Victorian and steampunk tropes parcelled up in one package: an orphan, mist-wreathed railway platforms, a tall dark stranger, a mysterious mansion with a fierce housekeeper, a talking automaton, a blizzard at Christmas and the ever-present threat of a dangerous fairy…
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In like a lion
In like a lion
Tomorrow sees the meteorological first day of spring with the arrival of March, a month which itself begins with St David’s Day.
For the next 31 days I shall be joining in the Wales Readathon (aka Dewithon19) by reading and reviewing books with a Welsh slant, right through to the end of the month; and you can do so too by going to Paula Bardell-Hedley’s Dewithon HQ page at Book Jotter, where you…
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Middle Earth and Mid Wales
Middle Earth and Mid Wales
Detail of Pigot & Co.’s New Map of England & Wales […] &c.: Wales in 1830
As part of my anticipation of March’s Wales Readathon (or Dewithon) this post revisits and expands a little on an idea I first posited in the post Parallel lines — the possible connections between Tolkien’s Middle Earth and the alternate Wales of Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken’s fantasy The Whispering Mountainwas first published…
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Winding Up the Week #31
Winding Up the Week #31
An end of week recap
This is a weekly post in which I summarize books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the night-stand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings.
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE TBR >>
I read and ruminated on Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’singenious 1932…
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