Format: PaperbackPublished: October 1st, 2011Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – History Rating: 5/5 Stars I might be biased here, but I really do think Cardiff is a great city, though definitely not reaching its full protentional, which is often a huge shame. I’ve lived near/in Cardiff my whole life, growing up with the city as a backdropContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Story of Cardiff by Nick Shepley”
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Top Ten Tuesday: Authors Who Live in My Country
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This one was pretty hard – sometimes it’s not soContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Authors Who Live in My Country”
#5OnMyTBR: Nonfiction
#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR. At the time of writing this, there haven’t been any prompts added for #5OnMyTBR for January, so to keep it simple I thought I’d highlightContinueContinue reading “#5OnMyTBR: Nonfiction”
Audiobook Review: The Mabinogion Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest
Narrated By: Richard MitchleyPublisher: Ukemi AudiobooksAge: AdultGenre: Classics – Medieval – MythologyFormat: AudiobookPublished: February 7th, 2017Goodreads Rating: 3/5 Stars This is not my first experience of The Mabinogion, and it’s definitely not going to be my last, but it’s the first time I have got through the whole thing. When I tried in the past,ContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: The Mabinogion Translated by Lady Charlotte Guest”
Book Review: A Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley by Vivian Jones
Format: PaperbackPublished: June 22nd, 2017Age: AdultGenre: Non-Fiction – MemoirGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars I picked this up ages ago for research purposes, and because the blurb made it sound like a great way to find out what life was like in mining valleys towards the start of the 20th century. The mines are such a keyContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Childhood in a Welsh Mining Valley by Vivian Jones”
Book Review: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe
Format: ebookRelease Date: January 20th, 2022Age: AdultGenre: Historical – LiteraryGoodreads Rating: 1/5 Stars Thank you to publishers Faber & Faber for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley. A little history before diving into the review, specifically about the event that starts this book – in October 1966, a coal slag heap collapsed inContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe”
Top Ten Tuesday: Covers in the Colours of My Country’s Flag
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Oh this is an interesting one…and I think might beContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: Covers in the Colours of My Country’s Flag”
Book Review: A Little Gay History of Wales by Daryl Leeworthy
Publisher: University of Wales PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: January 22n, 2020Genre: Nonfiction – HistoryGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars Let’s start this with a touch of background and a dash of anger – I was born in ’89, the year after the restrictive, disgusting ‘Section 28’ was introduced. This was in effect in Wales until 2003, but itContinueContinue reading “Book Review: A Little Gay History of Wales by Daryl Leeworthy”
Black Mountains: The Recollections of a South Wales Miner – David Barnes [Books]
I have a current WIP which needs research, mostly research into mining, specifically in the Welsh Valleys, preferably around the end of the 19th Century into the start of the 20th. Which is the main reason I picked up this book, hoping it would shed a little light on miners, their way of life, andContinueContinue reading “Black Mountains: The Recollections of a South Wales Miner – David Barnes [Books]”
Unwrapping Words 