Category: Local History & Interest
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Granary Book Blog: Fiction
Resistance by Owen Sheers (fiction) The women of a small Welsh farming community wake one morning to find that their husbands have gone. Soon after that a German patrol arrives in their valley. ‘Sheers creates around his imagined history a credible and moving story of loyalty and quiet courage… Resistance…
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Granary Book Blog: Autobiographies
Kilverts’s Diary 1870 – 1879 Selections from the Diary of Rev. Francis Kilvert by William Plomer The Kilverts, originally a Shropshire family, had migrated to Bath in the eighteenth century. Francis Kilvert spent his early years at Harden Huish, was educated privately, went in due course to Wadham College, Oxford,…
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Granary Book Blog: History
Possible holiday reading relating to the surrounding area. A jumble, in no particular order, of books and electronic publications – Further suggestions welcome! The Best of the Golden Valley and Herefordshire’s Welsh Borderland by Karen Wren (Kindle £1.99) A short guide giving an insight into the villages, sites and walks…
Granary Cottage, Dorstone, Herefordshire, near Hay-on-Wye, Wales 