Evans Ceiriog (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. paperback,illustrated,318 pages,fine.Shelf B57.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Some books set out to explain the world. Others sensibly begin with a village and work outward. Once Upon a Time in Goginan , by Ceiriog Gwynne Evans , belongs to the second and far wiser tradition: the gentle, observant, and occasionally mischievous chronicle of a place where the real drama of life unfolds in kitchens, lanes, hillsides and conversations that probably began thirty years ago and have not quite finished yet. Published in 2009 by Y Lolfa , this book takes us to Goginan , a small village in Ceredigion whose very name sounds like it ought to be spoken slightly slower than the rest of the sentence, preferably while looking out over a valley and wondering whether the weather will hold. Villages like Goginan do not generally feature heavily in the official version of history ? there are very few treaties signed in them ? but they contain the far more interesting business of ordinary life: people, places, memories, stories, characters, and the peculiar social chemistry that develops wherever a handful of humans occupy the same landscape long enough. Books like this are, in a quiet way, a kind of time machine. They preserve the tone of a place as much as its facts. One imagines anecdotes, recollections, local lore, and perhaps the occasional moment where someone?s version of events differs slightly from everyone else?s, which is of course exactly how proper history works in villages. The result is something far richer than a dry record of dates and buildings. It is the feeling of a community ? the rhythm of it, the humour of it, the way certain stories simply refuse to die. There is also something wonderfully Welsh about the idea of recording village life with affection and clarity. Wales has always been a country where landscape, language and memory intertwine, and small places carry large identities. Goginan may appear modest on the map, but in books like this it becomes what all villages secretly believe themselves to be: the centre of a world made of hills, neighbours, work, weather and stories worth keeping. The title itself ? Once Upon a Time in Goginan ? carries a lovely hint of playful storytelling. It suggests that what follows may not merely be a straight historical account but a gathering of tales, recollections and moments that together form the true fabric of a place. Not fairy tales exactly, though village life occasionally comes close, but the kind of grounded storytelling that reminds us history is built from small human moments long before it becomes anything grand enough to appear in textbooks. There is a gentle irony in the idea that the most enduring records of community often appear in slim local publications like this. While the world busies itself producing vast reports, glossy national histories and very serious documentaries about ?the state of things,? somewhere a small press has quietly captured the soul of a village before it slips away into nostalgia. When historians of the future want to know what real life looked like in places like Goginan, they will probably end up grateful that someone wrote this sort of book. This copy is in Good condition and arrives courtesy of the wonderfully self-deprecatingly named Crappy Old Books , a shop that consistently proves that the title is less a description of the stock than a kind of cheerful literary joke. The book remains a fine example of the quiet pleasure of local history: readable, affectionate, and full of the sort of details that make a place feel alive. For readers who enjoy Welsh life, village stories, and the subtle art of remembering communities properly, Once Upon a Time in Goginan offers a charming window into a corner of the world that might otherwise pass unnoticed ? which, as any sensible reader knows, is usually where the best stories are hiding.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 72 pp., illustrations, bibliography. In Welsh. Contents: Golygyddol: Lyfio Chdi ar Wyl Sant Ffolant; 'Er bod rhai yn taeru'n galed, Ar hyd y nos': Golwg ar weithgarwch cofnodi Mari Richards 'Darown'; Grace Gwyneddon Davies; Triwyr Teilwng: Roy Saer, Daniel Huws a Tegwyn Jones; Cân Cariad Wil Melinydd; Argofion am ddynes benederfynol: Ruth Herbert Lewis; Abnoddau digidol newydd ym maes Cerddoriaeth Werin; Esme Lewis (1926-2016); Llythyr at y Golygydd; Adolygiad; Y Gynhadledd Flynyddol 2016.