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Plateaux, Gateaux, Chateaux
Plateaux, Gateaux, Chateaux is the final volume in Mary Davies Parnell's popular trilogy of childhood memoirs. Having overcome the hurdle of O levels, Mary is now in the sixth form, a period when her horizons are widened in many directions. A new interest in dramatics and a dramatic, clandestine night out while at Ranger camp help relieve the burden of A levels, and are among a number of episodes in which her education is extended beyond the academic. And after success at A level Mary once again becomes a small fish in a big pool as she reads French at Aberystwyth. Student life in the fifties seems innocent now, and this distant time is charmingly explored, from Principal Goronwy Rees's white socks to the kidnapping of Miss Fresher. Mary's account ends with her impending return after her year abroad at a school for girls in Tours. Outside school she has visited chateaux, heard Piaf sing, received marriage proposals from two GIs and become a convinced Francophile.
Evan's War
Evans War is the sweeping tale of a young coalminer whose life takes a dramatic turn when he joins the army at the onset of the First World War and is sent to fight the Turks at Gallipoli. The book traces the saga of Evan Morgan from childhood in a small coalmining town in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales to Turkey and beyond. The cast of characters includes Welsh and English, Turk and Armenian, American, Australian and Indian. Leaving behind his childhood sweetheart, Gwyn, with a promise of marriage once the war ends, Evan arrives in Gallipoli unprepared for the horrors of trench warfare. But he finds an inner strength that sustains him during the terror of the landings and ensuing campaig...
A Rhondda Anthology
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Childhood
"This wide-ranging anthology surveys the pleasures and pains of growing up. Here are our shared experiences of childhood - the everyday and the extraordinary - in poems, stories, novels and memoirs. These pieces are sure to strike a chord with grown-ups everywhere - and put them in touch with the child within."--BOOK JACKET.
Changing Times
Documenting the experiences of women in the 1950s,and 1960s by presenting their own autobiographical,accounts, Changing Times features sections on a,range of issues from childhood and chappel to,unmarried mothers and the swinging sixties. The,detailed introduction sets the accounts in,context, illuminating the significance of women's,lives during such changing times. This is the,third in the autobiographical series following the,popular Parachutes and Petticoats and Struggle and,Starve.
Goronwy Rees
This study of Goronwy Rees sets his writings in the context of a dramatically eventful life. The author discusses Rees' complex relationship with Wales and how he was perceived in his native country as being anti-Welsh.
Let's Do Our Best for the Ancient Tongue
The sixth volume of an authoritative series presenting a penetrating analysis of the social history of the Welsh language during the 20th century, comprising 21 essays by renowned scholars based on thorough research exploring the negative and affirmative aspects of the Welsh language in literary and religious, political and legal, educational and cultural fields.
