The Cambrian Railways opened in 1858 and, until the grouping, served the mid Wales area from Wrexham and Whitchurch in the border country, to Pwllheli and Aberystwyth via the coastal route, with lines as far as Brecon. The Cambrian Railways linked, therefore, many South Wales companies with the north and middle of England. In the…
When English Pleasure Gardens was first published over a century ago, it was instantly acclaimed as a resource for gardeners, tourists, and history lovers alike. This new edition will introduce a new generation to the pageantry of Britain’s garden heritage and to the redoubtable Rose Standish Nichols, who hailed from Boston’s Beacon Hill, was among…
Cool country wines for every occasion from flowers, leaves and sap. The ingredients are free for the picking in summer and spring and will give your wines that distinctive “home-grown” flavour and quality. Make primrose, marigold, coltsfoot or lime flower wines, try oak and lavender leaves or the sap from the birch and sycamore tree….
Pope John Paul II’s encyclical on the moral of life, Veritatis Splendor, has aroused extraordinary interest and controversy inside and outside the Catholic Church. In bold and uncompromising language the Pope reaffirms Christian moral teaching, condemns the relativism, scepticism and unchecked individualism of the modern world, and criticizes some established trends in contemporary Catholic theology.
‘Among the greats of the high adventure story-tellers’ EVENING NEWS The opposition were all old campaigners with a lifetime’s dirty fighting behind them. They had got an old U Boat and a flag, and were handing out vicious justice in the name of France. As far as British Intelligence was concerned there was only one…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in 1984 and was at once hailed by the critics as a contemporary classic. ‘Read this book; here is a writer who really matters.’ Malcolm Bradbury ‘This is a brilliant novel from someone who, amongst Rushdie and Marquez, is one of our masters of magic realism.’ Cosmopolitan…