Details: Stradey Park, Llanelli: the field of rugby folklore, each blade of grass with its historic tale to tell, each
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Straight Outta Scotland is the remarkable real life story of how two rappers from Dundee pretended to be two rappers from California & duped the record industry out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Gavin Bain & Billy Boyd
- or Silibil N' Brains, as they became known
- were two ordinary Scottish boys who shared an extraordinary dream: to become rap superstars. Creating new identities for themselves, they persuaded the music industry that they were the latest hot young talent from California. Silibil N' Brains then lived out that lie for more than two years, securing an enormous record deal with Sony & being catapulted into the industry high-life, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Madonna, Eminem & D12. But, ironically, they could never actually deliver & promote the album that they were paid so much money to put together. As soon as they became famous they would be recognised by anyone who had known them in their former lives in Scotland & the dream would evaporate. As the pressure mounted, there would be disastrous consequences.. . Straight Outta Scotland is a story of incredible highs & terrible lows, of doing whatever it takes to follow your dream.

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Poet, novelist, lecturer, & founder of Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalist Party), Lewis (1893-1985) was also the greatest Welsh language playwright of the century. This study describes his place in a line of dramatists stretching from Racine to Pinter a ...

Details: For decades, tired travellers have stopped at rest areas on America's epic highways to rest, refuel & get a
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In this wickedly funny look behind the scenes, Cash recounts with searing wit & unfailing honesty the year he spent struggling to make a TV survival show when the odds were clearly against his surviving at all. On epic journeys from Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, he experiences fascinating cultures, sleeps with them, eats with them ...

Madeleine Smith, a young woman from a prominent Glasgow family, stood accused of the murder of her lover. The evidence against her seemed overwhelming. But after what was described as Scotland's trial of the century, she received the verdict of 'not proven' & walked free. This book gives a picture of the events surrounding this infamous case. ...

Foolish love appears to be a Roux family birthright. & for Ava Lavender, a girl born with the wings of a bird, it is an ominous thing to inherit. In her quest to understand her peculiar disposition & a growing desire to join her peers, Ava ventures into the wider world. But it is a dangerous world for a naive girl... ...

In the 17th century Britain, a breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge & new plants were stolen into Europe from East & West. John Tradescant & his son were at the vanguard of this change
- as gardeners & as collectors. This book presents their drama. It is useful for gardeners & non-gardeners.
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Stuffed full of strange animals, peculiar weather & odd places, this book unravels all these strange phenomena, from fish that rain from the sky to huge sinkholes, through specially commissioned CGI artworks, jaw-dropping illustration & clear scientific explanations. ...

A story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; & the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. ...