Tales from My Welsh Village
Tales from My Welsh Village
Author(s):
Ken Smith
Publication Date: 13 July, 2018
Available in all formats
Publisher: The Books Council of Wales
ISBN: 9781784616373
ISBN: 9781784616373
Price: INR 564.99
Description
Table of contents
A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.
Description
A novel spinning warm and very amusing tall tales about larger-than-life characters in a small village in the South Wales Valleys in the 1960s.
Table of contents
- Foreword
- 1 – Fred ‘Rats’ Howells
- 2 – A shock for Fred
- 3 – Fred’s return to an empty house
- 4 – The Plough Inn
- 5 – Return of the prodigal
- 6 – Fred’s story of ‘Blucher’
- 7 – Brecon Hotel and the chocolates
- 8 – Rabbiting in Llyswen
- 9 – Fred’s appetite in Talgarth
- 10 – To the Plough to relate…
- 11 – Jack Thomas’ chickens
- 12 – Jack Thomas confronts Fred about a fox
- 13 – To catch a fox
- 14 – To catch a fox (continued)
- 15 – The fox of Treherbert Road
- 16 – Trefor and the door frame
- 17 – Gwilym the Siop and the door frame
- 18 – Gwilym the Siop’s revenge
- 19 – Fred and the gravedigging contract
- 20 – Trefor’s day in court
- 21 – Fred and the blasting powder
- 22 – Fred resigns as gravedigger
- 23 – Colin signs the contract
- 24 – Fred’s roast chicken: Part 1
- 25 – Fred’s roast chicken: Part 2
- 26 – The butcher in the Plough
- 27 – Fred and the funny money
- 28 – The dog show and Fred’s terrier
- 29 – Ode to a Champion
- 30 – Fred’s ferrets loose in the Legion
- 31 – Trefor and the butcher: Part 2
- 32 – Fred and his move to the Mount
- 33 – Fred and Alan’s rabbit
- 34 – Fred’s reinstatement
- 35 – Fred’s passing
- Glossary of local terms