Jan Morris

• Dec-1987
• / General Fiction
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From the My Favourite series - favourite stories on different themes by different authors, each volume edited by a celebrity in the field. Story-telling is among the oldest and most persistent of all Welsh activities. The honoured bards of ancient Wa...

• Feb-1989
• / General Fiction
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Visiting this imaginary place, somewhere on the Mediterranean coast, is Jan Morris, commissioned by an American magazine to write letters from Hav. Under her gaze, sometimes baffled, always sharp, Hav and its bizarre inhabitants spring to life in thi...

• Jan-1990
• / General Fiction
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For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean �" an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetian...

• Nov-1995
• / General Fiction
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A meditation on Welsh history, past and future centred on the town of Machynlleth. Evoking the place at three periods of history, the Middle Ages, the 1990s and sometime in the 21st century, the text is presented in both English and Welsh....

• Sep-2011
• / Literary
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“Journey through a mystical country where everything is possible and easily arranged” in this 2-part travelogue set in a fictional Mediterranean city of dreams (Los Angeles Times). “A touching lover letter . . . to life itself” -- f...

• Apr-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2016
• / Fantasy
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The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's masterly telling of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her ...

• Sep-2018
• / General Fiction
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'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.' So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of di...