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All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker
Category: History
'A joyful canter through the Marches.' TLSA funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's deepest faultline.There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; the other England, crucible of the mo ...Show more
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places in Between by Mike Parker
Category: History
A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England–Wales border: Britain’s deepest faultline. There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; on the other England, crucible ...Show more
Crimson Fists: the Omnibus by Steve Parker; Mike Lee
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Warhammer 40,000 Ser.
Fantastic action packed omnibus featuring the fearless Crimson Fists! Defiant, courageous and unyielding in the face of impossible odds - these are the Crimson Fists, Dorn's glorious vanguard. Tested in battle like few others, these Space Marines are ever on the frontlines of an endless war against the ...Show more
In Search of the Red Slave - Shipwreck and Captivity in Madagascar by Mike Parker Pearson; Karen Godden
Category: History
Pirates, shipwreck and slavery - these are the key themes in this story of a young Englishman who spent 14 years of his life in captivity in Madagascar. This tale has been more or less lost to sight for centuries, for, although the shipwrecked sailor in question, Robert Drury, wrote a book about his adv ...Show more
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place by Mike Parker
Category: Biography
A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the redemptive power of nature.In the early 2000s Mike Parker and his partner Peredur (Preds) moved into a small village in remote West Wales. A few weeks after arriving, they met Reg and George, a couple for over sixty years, who had arrived ...Show more
On the Red Hill - Where Four Lives Fell into Place by Mike Parker
Category: Fiction
__________________________'A moving story of love, tradition and landscape.'Evening Standard, 'Books of the Year''A moving, multilayered memoir... extraordinary, ambitious... its scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches.' Simon Callow, Guardian'A marvellous book... an uplifting tale of tranquilli ...Show more
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