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Christmas Competition - Win Copies of 'Big Fish' and 'Homeland' by Jon Gower
Big Fish In this collection of short stories, first published in 2000 Jon Gower introduces us to a range of colorful and tragic characters. Some of these stories are set in Wales, others in the U.S. but ALL are hugely entertaining and some of them are amongst the funniest you'll ever read.
"This is a lively, entertaining collection of verbal arabesques traced by the zany flights of a wild fantasy. The writing is pacy, stylishly manic, streetwise and state -of-the art demotic. The author is able to add a convincingly Welsh accent to an american style of humour - elliptically staccato sentences, riffs of wisecracks, vivid shifts of verbal register." - M. Wynn Thomas
Homeland
This collection of essays, edited by Jon Gower, looks at the changes in farming in Wales in recent decades. originally published in 1996 it contains much that is of contemporary relevance.
" Homeland . This Wales in which we dwell, its mountains high, its history ample and complicated, its natural history still bountiful, just. This collection of essays, by a range of writers connected with the BBC Wales series Homeland, takes this great small country as its theme. It is a country small enough to hold out the promise of being understood, whilst constantly offering discoveries around every corner.".
