Cambria Magazine - Autumn 2008

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i-Cambria The online magazine that celebrates all things Welsh! Autumn 2008

CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE

FEATURES

THE BATTLE FOR EWLOE
KEITH NURSE on a Welsh victory in 1157 when Owain Gwynedd’s army ambushed a force of Henry II’s army - the English monarch
was lucky to have escaped with his life.

JEFF TOWNS: BOOKSELLER EXTRAORDINAIRE
JOHN IDRIS JONES on Jeff Towns, bookseller, bibliographer and bibliophile, founder of the famed Dylan’s Bookshop in Swansea’s Salubrious Passage, and world authority on Swansea’s famous son Dylan Thomas.

EISTEDDFOD 2008: A RETROSPECTIVE
A taste of the colour and the pageantry of this year’s National Eisteddfod in Cardiff through the lens of photographer DAVID WILLIAMS

INTERCELTIC FESTIVAL
The ‘Year of Wales’ at Lorient

ROY NOBLE
Dream ticket for the magic carpet

PATRICK THOMAS
The Secrets of the Gorlech Stone

LITERATURE
PETER FINCH on Bangor; reviews
BOOKS
MEIC STEPHENS on the publishing scene in Wales
POETRY
SARAH KENNEDY The Red Kites of Rhayader
THEATRE
DAVID ADAMS on Entrapment, Escape & Return
OPERA
NORMA LORD on Karl Jenkins
MUSIC
DULAIS RHYS reviews the latest music releases in Wales
ART
DAVID JONES on Alfred Sisley’s Welsh paintings
GARDENS
CAROLINE PALMER: A New Dawn for Cardigan Castle

MEDIA EXTRA
ROYSTON JONES on the bizarre case of Wales’s ‘Tower of Babel’

MOTORING
JOHN A. EDWARDS on the new Renault Koleos
FOOD
DOROTHY DAVIES bakes a pie; COLIN BELL on appropriate wine
DIRECTORY
The best places to eat in Wales
HOTELS
Reviews: Jabajak, Angel at Salem, Three Tuns, St Davids Refectory
DIARY
IDRIS R. JONES casts an eye over contemporary Wales
ONLOOKER
The Royal Welsh, Kyffin’s headstone, Gwenllian plaque
WEB DIRECTORY
cambria’s Welsh website guide

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