5 Top poetry books like The History of Wales in Twelve Poems by M. Wynn Thomas

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The History of Wales in Twelve Poems

By: M. Wynn Thomas

4.17

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A short collection of poems that provides a window into the Welsh poetic tradition from ancient tim…

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1. Wintering Out

By: Seamus Heaney

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards… read more

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  • poetry
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2. Ms Ice Sandwich

By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more

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3. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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4. The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation

By: Unknown , Simon Armitage

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, or, The Death of King Arthur,is one of… read more

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  • poetry
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5. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2)

By: L. Frank Baum , David McKee

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Tip builds a pumpkinheaded man as a joke. But the joke's on Tip when a mean old witch brings Jack P… read more

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7. As Kingfishers Catch Fire

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Ho… read more

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  • poetry

8. The Mabinogion

By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more

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9. Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This volume is a provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.… read more

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10. Chorus Of Mushrooms

By: Hiromi Goto

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Unknown Binding

A novel which follows the lives of three generations of Japanese-Canadian women, blending myth, fol… read more

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11. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

12. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

By: Humphrey Carpenter , J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

'...If you wanted to go on from the end of The Hobbit I think the ring would be your inevitable cho… read more

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13. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

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"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

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15. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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16. The Order of Time

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Our fear of death seems to me to be an error of evolution."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"We understand the world in its becoming, not in its being."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same."

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

"Before Newton, time for humanity was the way of counting how things changed. Before him, no one had thought it possible that a time independent of things could exist. Don't take your intuitions and i…"

-Carlo Rovelli, The Order of Time

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17. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reach… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. A Bitter Remedy (The Oxford Mysteries, #1)

By: Alis Hawkins

3.92

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to… read more

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20. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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21. Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.89

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

By the bestselling author of Storyland.Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous cl… read more

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  • poetry
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"

-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

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23. A Disappearance in Fiji

By: Nilima Rao

3.89

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more

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24. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between

By: Mike Parker

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. The Last Days of New Paris

By: China Miéville

3.54

Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition

"Beauty will be convulsive...." It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer … read more

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"Liberation was fucked up."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Devils and Nazis don’t work well together."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

"In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things."

-China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris

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27. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future

By: Tom Bullough

3.98

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The History of Wales in Twelve Poems

By: M. Wynn Thomas

4.17

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A short collection of poems that provides a window into the Welsh poetic tradition from ancient tim… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Independent Nation: Should Wales Leave the UK?

By: Will Hayward

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Should Wales leave the UK? It's a conversation that has - unfairly - been all but disregarded by m… read more

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30. Woman's Wales?: The Dissonance and Diversity of Devolution through the lives of Women in Wales

By: Emma Schofield

4.80

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

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