DYLANS BOOKSTORE SWANSEA – An ARTHUR MACHEN List –
DYLANS BOOKSTORE SWANSEA – An ARTHUR MACHEN List – A small group of Machenalia from the library of the late Geoffrey Wooley, who was born in Tredegar in 1915 and for 30 years, from 1953 until 1982, edited the highly influential Letters Page of The Times newspaper. He was a keen bibliophile and book collector […]
The Good Life Festival 2016
The Danish call it Hygge. Simple pleasures. Warmth. Comfort. The #GoodLifeExperience is totally Hygge. A big warm Welsh hygge as Summer welcomes Autumn. Listening to Mike Garry perform his St. Anthony on a Sunday afternoon with a four piece string quartet whilst drinking a pint of Good Life Ale is definitely hygge. Baskets and bundles of free […]
DYLAN THOMAS AND NELSON ALGREN – the Philosopher of Beer meets the Man with the Golden Arm
On his second reading tour to America in 1952, the only visit he made with his wife Caitlin along too, Dylan Thomas revisited Chicago to give a reading for Poetry Magazine. He had read at the University on his first tour and told John Malcolm Brinnin, his unofficial ‘tour manager’,that it was the only mid-West […]
Dylan Thomas, Sherlock Holmes & the case of the Stolen Conversation
Dylan Thomas, Sherlock Holmes & the case of the Stolen Conversation A STARTLING CASE OF WORD-THEFT HAS JUST COME TO LIGHT FEATURING some of the words of Arthur Conan Doyle. As you would expect Holmes is on the case and a suspect has already been identified – none other than Welsh wordsmith DYLAN THOMAS! Thomas […]