Download or read book The Ianto Trilogy written by John Russell Herbert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a work of pure fiction, deeply subjectivist. It is comprised of elements having been copyrighted earlier, some of which have been put out using my former pen name "Ianto Griffeth". The Song of Ianto: Internal Exile of the Exposed Unknown, was actually the first-completed of the three novellas. Due to the despair and sin found therein, the "sequel", An Insurrection of Gods: Ianto's Redemption, took on that motif, that of "redemption". All these works undulate between a flat sort of existentialism and deeply inspired metanarrative. The "late-completed prequel", Prelude: Ianto's Montage of Dreams, was something I put together using very early writing juxtaposed with brand new material, some chronologically fitting, within the fictitious biography of the protagonist, some consciously "a-chronological", all this having to do with subjectivism, and metanarrative.

Download or read book Like A Black Fire written by John Russell Herbert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unlocking the Love Lock written by Ceri Houlbrook and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the worldwide popularity of the love-lock as a ritual token of love and commitment by considering its history, symbolism, and heritage. “[T]his is an eminently enjoyable and thorough investigation of a popular phenomenon through the lens of heritage and folk tradition.”—Sara De Nardi, Western Sydney University A padlock is a mundane object, designed to fulfil a specific – and secular – purpose. A contemporary custom has given padlocks new significance. This custom is ‘love-locking’, where padlocks are engraved with names and attached to bridges in declaration of romantic commitment. This custom became popular in the 2000s, and its dissemination was rapid, geographically unbound, and highly divisive, with love-locks emerging in locations as diverse as Paris and Taiwan; New York and Seoul; Melbourne and Moscow. From the introduction: I was distractedly perusing the photo frame aisle, my eyes skimming the generically sentimental stock pictures of happy families smiling at the camera, pretty landscapes, cute pets and couples walking hand-in-hand, when I came across one that jumped out at me.... I recognised the image instantly as a photograph of love-locks: the padlocks that had been appearing en masse on bridges and other public structures on a global scale since the early 2000s. And, having been researching the custom known as lovelocking for about five years at that point, it was with a peculiar sense of pride that I realised love-locks had accomplished the status of a stock image.

Download or read book The Song of Ianto Internal Exile of the Exposed Unknown written by John Russell Herbert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was my first novella completed. It is the second in the trilogy comprising the existential trajectory of the protagonist. The despair, sin, and extreme "political incorrectness" found herein, particularly the despair and the sin, led to the redemption theme found in the "sequel", An Insurrection of Gods: Ianto's Redemption. The late-completed prequel, Prelude: Ianto's Montage of Dreams, is somewhat more open-ended in its trajectory and its vision. (This last-mentioned work is comprised of very early writing, as well as late-written material pertinent to early phases of the protagonist's life, along with, in a process of deepening existential subjectivism, new writing, covering later times, slung in non-chronologically, though the overall mimesis withstands this.)

Download or read book Solace Devastation Trilogy 2 written by Lesli Richardson and published by Lesli Richardson. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Devastation Trilogy, book 2, mmf, political romance.) He doesn’t know how to give in… I’m in way over my head. I’m waiting for someone to point a finger at me and call me an imposter. I don’t belong here. Yet I can’t think of anywhere I’d rather be. I don’t know what the hell this is between us, but even while I hate it, I crave it, like a damn drug. I need it. I need them. And I’ll do whatever it takes to stay here, even if it means giving up who I am. (The Devastation Trilogy is a standalone spin-off set in the world of the Governor Trilogy.)

Download or read book Dirge Devastation Trilogy 1 written by Lesli Richardson and published by Lesli Richardson. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He doesn’t know how to let go… I was a husband, a father, a politician. Now, I’m just lost. Maybe they can help find me, I don’t know. Maybe I shouldn’t be found. Maybe the devastation that is my life should be allowed to crumble and decay. There is no comfort in a funeral dirge, no solace in empty words spoken to me. There is no release from this hell but death, and I can’t do that yet. I don’t know how to let go. But…maybe they can help me hold on. Book 1 of the Devastation Trilogy. This MMF contemporary political romance features mature main characters, a secret workplace romance, pining, second-chance love, friends to lovers, a May/December age gap, power exchange, GFY, and a guaranteed HEA. It is a standalone trilogy set in the world of the Governor Trilogy. George Forrester was first introduced in Lieutenant (Governor Trilogy 2).

Download or read book Release Devastation Trilogy 3 written by Lesli Richardson and published by Lesli Richardson. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She doesn't know how to give up... Off-limits. Boss. Married. But now… There’s a jungle of pain to carve through first, though, and I don’t know if I’m strong enough. All I know is I’m willing to try, if they are. I suspect if we can make it through to the other side that we’ll be unstoppable. It’s the journey that’s a bitch, though. So buckle up, buttercup. It’s going to be a wild ride. Book 3 of the Devastation Trilogy. This MMF contemporary political romance features mature main characters, a secret workplace romance, pining, second-chance love, friends to lovers, a May/December age gap, power exchange, GFY, and a guaranteed series HEA. It is a standalone trilogy set in the world of the Governor Trilogy. George Forrester was first introduced in Lieutenant (Governor Trilogy 2).

Download or read book Sheepshagger written by Niall Griffiths and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ianto is a sheepshagger, a Welsh redneck, and he is out to take revenge on the English yuppies who own his grandmother's cottage and everyone else who has violated his land.

Download or read book Full Circle written by Jennifer Thomas and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark clouds gather in the usually peaceful community on the rugged Welsh border. Unsolved wrongdoings reappear with unexpected consequences; bitter family resentment unfolds with dramatic results but, through it all, the strong ties of family and close friends throw a net of loyalty and support over those in need. And they triumph. And happiness is found in the most unlikely places. Jennifer Thomas was born in the Welsh border county of Monmouthshire. After qualifying as a teacher, Jennifer moved to the Isle of Wight, where she still lives with her husband, Chris. She has twin grown-up daughters. This is Jennifer's third novel and is the final book of 'The Abercerig Trilogy'.

Download or read book How Green Was My Valley written by Richard Llewellyn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How Green Was My Valley" is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.

Download or read book The Men Who Sold the World written by Guy Adams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked "Torchwood." The UK's new coalition government was suspiciously keen to offload the shipment at almost any price. The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case-- but someone is obstructing him at every turn ...

Download or read book Song of the Earth written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostyn Evan and his family, miners turned bargees, wage a glorious but hopeless struggle against rapacious coalmasters, Irish navvies, the ravages of cholera, and the bullying illegal Unions. As they ply their trade between the furnaces of Cyfarthfa and the lush beauty of the Neath Valley, they pray and fight, sing and love, and face each obstacle undaunted with all the stubbornness and exuberance of Wales itself. This is the third instalment in Alexander Cordell's magnificent saga of nineteenth century Wales that began with classic bestseller The Rape of the Fair Country.

Download or read book The Politics of Fandom written by Hannah Mueller and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fandom has been celebrated both as a harmonious, tolerant space and as apolitical and detached from reality. Yet fandom is neither harmonious nor apolitical. Throughout the past century, fandom has been shaped by recurring controversies and sparked by the emergence of new circles, platforms and discourses. Since the earliest days of science-fiction fandom, fans have conceived of their communities as quasi-political bodies, and of themselves as public actors in discursive spaces. They are concerned with the organizational structures, norms, and borders of fandom as well as their own position within it all. This latter concern has moved to the forefront as fan practices and platforms have been coopted by the entertainment industry and by political actors, forcing fans to situate their fannish and political identities in relation to both sprawling transmedia franchises and right-wing groups exploiting fannish formations for political ends. Through case studies of Glee and The Hunger Games fandoms as well as events such as Gamergate, RaceFail '09 and the Hugo Awards controversies, this book explores the complexities of political fandom.

Download or read book Riding Tycho written by Jan Mark and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demetria has never questioned her harsh life on High Island. The endless rules, merciless bullying and the scream of the Banshee announcing another doomed escape across the sea, are all she has ever known. But then she meets political prisoner Ianto Morgan, who tells her about a strange and distant world full of stories and freedom. Demetria is captivated by the possibility of a life without limits, but is Ianto telling the truth or is it all dangerous lies? Whatever the cost, Demetria knows she must find out . . .

Download or read book The Amber Spyglass written by Philip Pullman and published by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.

Download or read book The Fire People written by Alexander Cordell and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the ironmaking town of Merthyr Tydfil, The Fire People is the story of Dic Penderyn who in 1831 became the first Welsh Martyr of the working class. Hanged for a crime that he did not commit, his story is told in this powerful novel which describes the events which took place during the famous Merthyr Tydfil riots of 1831.

Download or read book Bay of the Dead written by Mark Morris and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach their home. A stolen yacht is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene. Torchwood have to deal with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show. Not that they really believe in zombies. Featuring Captain Jack Harkness as played by John Barrowman, with Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones as played by Eve Myles and Gareth David-Lloyd, in the hit series created by Russell T Davies for BBC Television."