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Growing up in, away from and back towards North Wales
by Jos Simon
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 9781800996410
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Pub Date: 2025-06-16
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
240 Pages
Jos Simon’s second book of memoirs looks at his memories of growing up in north Wales and how his upbringing informed the later part of his life as a Welsh exile in England. After focusing on his...
The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right, and also the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books.One of the earliest known Scottish queens...
Captures in descriptions, what it was really like trying to make a living out of a hill croft years ago. This book features a couple and their young daughter, who fresh from city life, immerse themselves in the practicalities of looking after sheep, cattle and hens, mending fences, baking bread and surviving the Scottish winters.
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