A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
The book offers an immersive exploration of Wales, combining evocative prose with illustrations by Jackie Morris. It serves as a meditation on the nation's history, culture, and identity, reflecting on its past while contemplating its future. The author's insights provide a deeper understanding of Wales, making it a thought-provoking read for those interested in the region's unique narrative.
Addlands is a sweeping tale of rural family life set in the Welsh borders.
Set in the Welsh Borders in 1980, this title charts an unlikely friendship between two neighbours: Robin, the seven year old son of English hippie sheep farmers, and Andrew, a child so neglected by his impoverished parents that he is left almost mute, seeking solace among the farm dogs.
It is 1867 and winter in Ryazan, a city on the banks of the Oka River in Central Russia. Konstantin is ten years old. His days are full of dreams of flight - to Moscow, even to the silent stars. But then, one day, he catches cold in the freezing woods near his home and his own world becomes silent. Left deaf by scarlet fever, his outlook is desperate. Only his fascination with a newly mechanised age and his astonishing visions of humanity's future seem to offer him any sort of hope. To escape the earth, Konstantin learns, he must travel at 11.2 kilometres per second - eight hundred times faster than an express train. But how to achieve such an incredible speed? Moving from wolf-infested forests to the brothels of Moscow, from the confines of village life to the wonders of the Age of Steam, from appalling tragedy to the discovery of a great love, Konstantin, Tom Bullough's brilliant, inspirational novel, tells the extraordinary story, based on a real-life character, of the first man to reveal how travel into space might be possible. It is a story of man, nature, and the limitless power of the imagination.