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4 Strange Plays
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse, 2007

Set in Wales in a cottage by the sea. A ruined poet returns home to his ruined friends - Aaron of the phantom daughters, the sea-wracked, Johnny Conch, Black Branwen, Olga the Ever-Ready, who battle for the poet's survival or destruction. Who wins in the end?

ARMED AND RIDICULOUS: A selection of short stories
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse UK DS, 2005

These scenes from the globe are an odyssey through love, grief, friendship, death, spite, mirth, violence, nightmare and the unknown. They take place variously in fashionable ski resorts in Switzerland; a prestigious language school in Cambridge; an ocean going yacht; a ditch in woodland; David Bowie''s private residence in the Canton de Vaud; the den of a terrorist cell in Holland; mermaids off St David's Head in Wales; the tossing of the caber ...

8 Plays from Nowhere
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse, 2008

Celestial Rock and Other Republican Plays
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse UK DS, 2007

Freedom fighter Tom Paine was threatened with the noose in England, the guillotine in France, and ostracism in the USA, all because he wrote books - notably Common Sense, which toppled monarchies, and The Age of Reason, which challenged established religion. Paine was one of a cluster of 17th/18th century republican writers and activists whose pens changed the world. But who also paid a cruel price for it. John Bunyan (Pilgrim's Progress) spent ...

The Raven Man
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse, 2005

The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven -classics of poetry and horror, seen in a hundred films, known all over the world. But who wrote these amazing works? Yes, the great Edgar Allan Poe - a familiar name to many perhaps. But who actually was this famous Edgar Allan Poe? Where did he come from? Was he really an opium addict and alcoholic? Did he marry his cousin, a thirteen year old child? Did he have ...

Reign Of The Dragon
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse UK DS, 2006

A saga of England's first Empire - not in America, Africa or India, but in the lands of her nearest neighbour, France. After Henry V's victory at Agincourt, England's fifteen-year occupation of Paris began. It was an object lesson in Empire building - empire losing. England's burning of Joan of Arc lost them their first overseas empire. Henry's untimely death left the succession open. Into it stepped Henry's widow, Queen Catherine of Valois, and ...

The Lily and the Dragon: A Historical Novel After Agincourt
Dedwydd Jones

Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2002

FOUR PLAYS FROM WALES Ancient and modern
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse UK DS, 2006

Plays Ancient and Modern move from the eighteenth century to the present day, Bard is the story of the 'Welsh Shakespeare,' Thomas Edwards, aka Twm O'r Nant, a brick-layer, furnace-builder, bankrupt and write of 'Interludes,' an early form of play. Twm robustly attacked the corruption of the day but his attacks were ignored by the authorities and the academics, for Twm wrote exclusively in Welsh. Bard puts Wales's own 'Shakespeare' on stage for ...

Scenes from the Globe
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse, 2007

Sheer Agony!: More Plays by Dedwydd Jones
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse, 2008

Dedwydd Jones is a bloke who has lived for some time and is determined to continue this state of affairs, for a while at least. During his existence, he has seen things and done stuff, and, occasionally written about it. Some of his words have made it into books, plays, telly, and radio. This makes him dead chuffed. When people buy his books, he really gets excited. It means he can eat, and also, on a good week, drink. Dedwydd is ...

On the Mythology of the Ancient Bards
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse UK DS, 2008

Edward Williams (1746-1826) also known by his Bardic name, 'Iolo Morganwg,' was a Republican, Radical, Revolutionary, Pacifist, Abolitionist, Flutist, Song Writer, Jailbird, Lexicographer, Grammarian, Antiquarian, Encyclopaedist. Linguist, Debtor, Mediaevalist, Folklorist, Bird Watcher, Agriculturist, Master Mason, Bookshop Owner, Poet (in both Welsh and English) a Bard, a Druid, a Visionary, a 'Noble Savage,' a 'Child of Nature,' a 'Pagan' - in ...

Sailing to Avallon and Other Plays
Dedwydd Jones

AuthorHouse, 2008

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