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Crime

Crime

Irvine Welsh

Welsh is a brave writer... this is a great, redemptive book. It leaves you wanting more, much more. There's only one and you should be reading him again' Observer 'Crime is by some distance Welsh's most restrained and thoughtful work .
The World in the Evening

The World in the Evening

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood. 3. SARAH WAS EXPLAINING that Tawelfan means in Welsh 'The Quiet Place', that Dolgelly, also, is a Welsh name, and that the village, like several others in this neighbourhood, had been founded by Welsh settlers ...
124 Years Before The Navy Mast - The Patten Family

124 Years Before The Navy Mast - The Patten Family

Clarence Floyd Patten

The seminal study on English and Welsh surnames, Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames by Charles Wareing Bardsley, provides the following information on the Patten or Patton surname: Patten, Patton. — Bapt. 'the son of Patrick,' from ...
Hard Men of Welsh Rugby

Hard Men of Welsh Rugby

Lynn Davies

Who are the hardest men of Welsh Rugby? Here are the stories of twenty of the toughest Welsh Rugby Union players who fought valiantly for pride and honour in the days prior to the game turning professional in 1995.
The Lipscombs of East Feliciana: a Virginia heritage, ...

The Lipscombs of East Feliciana: a Virginia heritage, ...

Richard Rowley Lipscomb

Henry V; ^Charles Wareing Bardsley, English Surnames Their Sources and Significations (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1968), p. 125. ^ Charles Wareing Bardsley, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames with Special ...
Blue Beard

Blue Beard

Charles Perrault

«Blue Beard» by Charles Perrault, Charles Welsh and illustrated by Michael Bychkov.
Bibliography of Welsh periodicals, 1851-1900

Bibliography of Welsh periodicals, 1851-1900

Huw Walters

A detailed bibliography of Welsh periodicals from 1851 to 1900 comprising information about almost 900 periodicals, together with a thorough survey of the Welsh periodical press from 1735 to 1900. Over 120 black-and-white illustrations.
Welsh Dylan: Dylan Thomas's Life, Writing, and His Wales

Welsh Dylan: Dylan Thomas's Life, Writing, and His Wales

John Ackerman

Welsh Dylan surveys Thomas's background, upbringing and life in Wales, and discusses the distinctively Welsh flavour of the Swansea stories, his Laugharne-indluenced later poetry, and the warm, gossiping village life that informs perhaps ...
Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

Aaron Kelly

This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work
Exile in His Own Country

Exile in His Own Country

Gareth Calway

A collection of highly achieved work... such a talented Welsh exile... whose stance on matters Welsh is both thoughtful and provocative.
Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance

Irvine Welsh

Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special ...

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special ...

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special ...

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special ...

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Rural Wales: Community and Marginalization

Rural Wales: Community and Marginalization

Paul J. Cloke

The report was commissioned by the Welsh Office, who did not publish the findings. This text analyzes and interprets this research to produce a possibly controversial picture of contemporary rural life in the welsh countryside.
Welsh Genealogy

Welsh Genealogy

Bruce Durie

Written by the highly respected genealogist Bruce Durie, the Course Director for Genealogical Studies at the University of Strathclyde, this is the ideal book for local and family historians setting out on a journey in Welsh ancestry for ...
'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music

'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music

Sarah Hill

For a provocative assessment of recordings by Anglo-Welsh bands, and observations about John Cale's influence on Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, see Dai Griffiths, 'Ffordd Eingl-Gymreig Grêt o Fyw?', Golwg 9/33 (1 May, 1997). For an analysis of ...
The Life and Work of Owen Thomas, 1812-1891: A Welsh ...

The Life and Work of Owen Thomas, 1812-1891: A Welsh ...

David Ben Rees

Dr. Rees has used the letters which Thomas' grandson Saunders Lewis had preserved to give a profound and interesting account of one of the most outstanding authorities on the history and development of Welsh preaching.
California Lawyer

California Lawyer

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Protecting Products That Go Hollywood BY ROBERT C. WELSH AND PRATHEEPAN GULASEKARAM Robert C. Welsh is a partner and Pratheepan Gulasekaram is an associate at 0'Melveny & Myers in Century ...
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
Mercy Mission

Mercy Mission

William Christie

Welsh didn't turn his head, but he could practically feel Margaret Scanlan's eyes on him. Now the Monsignor weighed in. "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." "Paul to the Romans, Chapter Twelve," Welsh replied automatically.
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novel

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs: A Novel

Irvine Welsh

"A family saga, a revenge fantasy, a Twilight Zone-esque parable, and, most importantly, a very fun read." —Entertainment Weekly This story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence is vintage Irvine Welsh.
The World of Language

The World of Language

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Pages 132-136: Reprinted from William by Anne Welsh Guy. Copyright © 1961 by Anne Welsh Guy. Both used by permission of the publisher, The Dial Press, Inc. Hallmark Cards. Page 156: "The moon in the water" by Ryota from Haiku, Vol .
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

The New Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Inc. town, 1854; city, 1957. Pop. (1994 est.) 20,132. Owen (Welsh name): see under Owain, except as below. Owen, Alun, in full alun davies owen (b. Nov. 24, 1925, Liverpool, Eng. — d. Dec. 6, 1994), Welsh dramatist for radio, television, ...
Journal

Journal

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Dover, Jacob Blickensderfer, Jacob Blickensderfer, C. Deardorff, G. W. Slingluff. Roscoe, Jacob Welsh, Jacob Welsh, Arnold Medbury, Jas. Le Retilly. Newark, L. Smith, *L. Smith, J. Mathiot, Wm. Stanbery, Columbus, J. Ridgway, Jr. J. Ridgway,  ...
The Correspondence, 1876-1885

The Correspondence, 1876-1885

Walt Whitman

From William D. O''Connor. Feinberg. June 16. From John Burroughs. Feinberg. CT: Traubel, II, 171–172; Barrus, 217. June 16. From Rees Welsh & Company. Pennsylvania. June 18. From Anne Gilchrist. Pennsylvania. June 19. From William D. O''Connor. Feinberg. CT: Traubel, 1, 312–314. June 21. From Rees Welsh & Company. Pennsylvania. June 24. From William D. O''Connor, Feinberg. CT: Traubel, III, 349. June 26. From Rees Welsh & Company. Pennsylvania. June 29.
The California Electricity Crisis: What, Why, and What’s Next

The California Electricity Crisis: What, Why, and What’s Next

Charles J. Cicchetti

4 Terry Robinson and Andrzej Baniak, “The Volatility of Prices in the English and Welsh Electricity Pool,” Applied Economics 34 (Aug. 2002), pp. 1487-1495. 5 Richard J. Green, “Increasing Competition in the British Electricity Spot Market,” ...
A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames

A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames

Ch. W. E. Bardsley

Robert Mai tone: t.Antholin(London), p. to . I702. Buried — Charles, a. John Ma. - ston : ibid. p. "5. MaidwelL—Local, 'ol' Maidwell,' a village in co. Northampton, ten miles from Northampton. Probably distinct from Meadwell, q.v.: cf. Maidenwell ...

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