Bøker av Glyn Roberts

Glyn Roberts, Murpoeth, Bryncroes has immense interest in rural crafts and old tools. He is also a diligent researcher of old documents, records, maps and photographs. When the heritage body, the Ll¿n Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty wished to create a survey of the old mills of the area, it was natural that they would turn to this...

Wild Tales, gentle but strong as Mother Nature herself. More furry than fairy, these are tales where Nature is the hero yet always strange and unpredictable. The interaction of man or child with Nature can be funny and tragic, even at the same time. The thinking creatures of the earth imagine Nature is a place where they play out their lives, whereas the animals and children who truly do live in the moment, are able to flow with it, allowing it to take them where it will. This collection of story and verse gives 13 reminders of how Nature will always win in the end!

This is a collection of ten original modern folk ballads. All are satirical, tongue in cheek or just good fun! Diverse themes of love (especially for an octopus), getting old (especially for a cowboy), war from a child's point of view, money and fame, spiritual awareness and finding a way through the trials of the human condition, but always with humour. Parodies of Milton and Dante are here along with over-the-top pantomime and seaside postcard characters. It is a feast of rhyme and rhythm where the reader will enjoy a poetical journey from the ocean bed up to Heaven, back to wartime Britain, across the plains of America, into a Welsh Valley village, through Dartmoor Forest and down to the very center of Hell itself ! It features a geriatric cowboy, a romantic octopus, a jellyfish with no brain, hats a plenty, a bloodthirsty megalomaniacal pirate, God Himself, Satan himself, a pretty horse, drunkards, a retired Hell's Angel, an unexploded bomb and a gang of rude folkies...