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Cardiff author Peter Luther has just launched his second novel, The Mourning Vessels . It is loosely located in his favourite town of Tenby. The fast paced supernatural thriller is based on the machinations of a Satanic coven –The Divine Sentiment and the story follows the main character Ellen’s quest to unriddle their sinister operations and free the souls of her dead parents.
Although he is a new face, he has built a loyal band of underground followers, as testified by the response to his first book on his website www.peterluther.co.uk . His fans will be pleased to hear that Peter revealed at the launch of Mourning Vessels, in Waterstone’s Cardiff , that he has already written his third novel Precious Cargo and hopes to see it published next year.
Peter Luther , a successful solicitor and an accomplished musician, admits that his fictional work is influenced by his personal experiences, his latest born from the tragic loss of both his parents and his next relates to his wife’s experiences of receiving IVF treatment. He will be touring bookshops throughout Britain in November and December.
The Mourning Vessels in available in bookshops and www.ylolfa.com priced at £7.95.
Peter Luther will be signing copies of Mourning Vessels at the following shops in November
November 1 November
Waterstones, 9-11 Regent Street Wrexham at 11:00am – 1:00pm
Waterstones, 14 Eastgate Row, Chester at 2:30pm – 4:30pm
8 November
Waterstones Nottingham, 1-5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham at 11:00am – 1:00pm
15 November
Waterstones, 4a High Street, Abergavenny at 11:00am – 1:00pm
Borders, New Park Shopping Centre, Llantrisant at 2:30pm – 4:30pm
22 November
Borders, 14 The Hayes, Cardiff at 1:30pm – 3:30pm
29 November
Waterstones Chiswick, 220-226 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick at 11:30am – 1:30pm
December and January dates to be confirmed
Help yourself to a free Welsh language digital album. Download from "Dan Y Cownter/Under The Counter". The album features tracks from Fleur Dafydd, MC Mabon and Dr Huw amongst others. Just click on the banner above or HERE to be taken to the download site.
From the site:- "Following the overwhelming popularity of Dan y Cownter (Under the Counter) and Dan y Cownter 2 - two previously released CDs featuring the best and latest music from Wales, distributed for free in order to promote Welsh language music; Welsh Music Foundation is proud to present this brand new website - the third edition in the series: "Dan Y Cownter 3" (more...) "
On the subject of CyngorNi, thanks to Gina for asking an important question. Gina is a strong supporter of our aims, but comments, "I wish to know where all of this will leave us non welsh speakers who...were not brought up speaking welsh, who do not have contact with Welsh speakers and have not been able to learn the language."Firstly I apologise for not explaining this sooner - It never crossed my mind that Welsh language supporters might be nervous of this policy. I wonder if this is the big weakness of pro Welsh language campaigns, that Welsh-speakers often communicate and listen poorly to non Welsh-speakers.
For those of you (and I would hazard a guess that I am talking about a majority here) who would like to be able to speak Welsh, imagine becoming totally fluent in 3 years, in work time! By the way, Gwynedd, because they have already adopted this policy, has the highest proportion of fluent Welsh learners in Wales.Gina also writes that "there must be room for us all in Wales, with jobs for both Welsh speakers and non Welsh speakers." Here she hits the nail on the head - this is exactly what we are campaigning for.Reminder: There is a protest outside the National Trust AGM on Saturday 1st November. For those who'd like to travel on the bus from Wrexham, it is leaving the Plas Coch pub (on the B&Q / Sainsbury Roundabout, near the Owain Glyndwr University) at 8am. People will meet outside the AGM in Liverpool at 9.30. For more details, or to book your place in the bus, email us (by replying tothis email).A good example of London Press attitudes towards Wales in this week's Sunday People (thanks to John for this). Dave Kidd, this time, says: "Wales isn't a proper country anyway, the so-called"Welsh language" is clearly just a series of weird noises used as a practical joke against the English, and Ramsey might as well admit he'd rather wear the three lions." We wonder if he's a little peeved that the Football Assosciation of Wales is still refusing to join the 'British' Olympic football team.
Prize-winning Welsh author Lloyd Jones celebrates the launch of his first collection of short stories next week. The work entitled "My First Colouring Book" will be available from Nov 5th. Lloyd Jones is the award winning author of "Mr Vogel" and "Mr Cassini", two of the most refreshing and challenging novels to come out of Wales in recent decades. His new book will be reviewed on this site in due course, meanwhile you can pre-order a copy from Amazon.com here:- My First Colouring Book 
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| WHAT'S NEW ON AMERICYMRU 1 JUNE 2010 |
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North American Festival of Wales featuring the 79th Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu - Portland, Oregon, USA Don't miss this opportunity for fellowship and Welsh culture in Portland! Our daytime programming will feature four days of interesting and informative seminars, workshops, concerts & much more. An Interview with Eirian Owen , Musical Director of the Cor Godre'r Aran who will be appearing at NAFOW 2010 can be found here. More info and registration here. SDSoGSL's Annual Picnic St David's Society of Greater St. Louis (SDSoGSL) - Annual Picnic. At The Small Riverside Shelter at Pere Marquette State Park - look for Welsh Flags. Gwyl Corris Festival Festival of Music and Cask Ales. Live music with Welsh bands, choirs, soloists, folk groups and much more featuring the wonderful Dragon Strings. |
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Summer Madness - Part 2 $50 Ad Spot For A Whole Year "As a follow up to our recent sell out offer of spaces in our homepage rotating ad banner we are offering a new deal on spots in the right hand column on AC. If you wish to advertise or sponsor the Left Coast Eisteddfod on this site we are offering a 125x125 ad on the Americymru home page in the right hand column for just $50 for a year.".... continued The Portland Lovespoon Is Almost Complete "Well, I think I am just about done. I had a good day yesterday and managed to get most of my part seen to. There might be a couple of... " continued Remembering Campbell's Steamers The Bristol Channel has always been a unique place.The Channel is both wide and spacious compared to other British seaports. It breathes clean unfettered air but takes the full fury of the south- westerlies rolling in from the Atlantic." .... continued An Interview With Mared Lenny of Swci Boscawen "AmeriCymru: Can you explain to our readers what the name 'Swci Boscawen' means? Status Updates or - 'I cut My Toenails Today ' "The recent outbreak of of deliberate and calculated drollery in status updates on AmeriCymru is much to be welcomed. We only wish more people would get in on the act. Since the status updates feature was added a while back, a few members have made use of it but many more have yet to discover its point and purpose." continued |
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Many South-Walians do not speak Welsh. Many of them wish they did. Ever since the introduction of bi-lingual road and public utility signs in Wales it has been easier to acquire a basic vocabulary. Most people, Welsh speakers or not, are aware that an "ysbyty" is a hospital and an "ysgol" is a school. It is also a fact that many of this site's members ( myself included ) are Welsh learners and we would like to make things a little easier for them.
Starting today, we are going to translate the site into Welsh. This will be done bit by bit over a fairly extended period. Some areas will possibly be left in English, due to space considerations, but we want to work toward a fully bilingual site. We are inviting members to consider translating words or phrases and emailing them to us for inclusion in our new language file.
We made a start in the Quickstart box at the top of the right hand column. As you can see "Friends/Cyfeillion" and "Invite/Gwadd" now appear in Welsh and English. As we proceed more bilingual links and instructions will appear throughout the site.
So......if you have a little time to spare please consider sending us a translation or two to help move things along. Pick a phrase....any phrase, translate it and send your translation to americymru@gmail.com.
Welsh-English / English-Welsh On-line Dictionary 
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