On the Red Hill

Release on 2019-06-062019-06-06 by Mike Parker

Author: Mike Parker

Publisher: Random House

ISBN: 9781473558861

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 416

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__________________________ 'A moving story of love, tradition and landscape.' Evening Standard, 'Books of the Year' 'A moving, multilayered memoir... extraordinary, ambitious... its scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches.' Simon Callow, Guardian ‘A marvellous book... an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise.’ Simon Jenkins ‘There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly cultured book. In an age of toxic artifice, this is the most necessary medicine: the tenderness of reality and the living, elemental, world.’ Jay Griffiths __________________________ A multi-layered memoir of love, acceptance, finding home and the redemptive power of nature. In 2006, Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the civil partnership of their friends Reg and George, the first in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth. Years later, when Reg and George died within a few weeks of each other, Mike and Peredur discovered that they had been left their home: a whitewashed ‘house from the children’s stories’, buried deep within the hills. On the Red Hill is the story of Rhiw Goch, ‘the Red Hill’, and its inhabitants, but also the story of a remarkable rural community and a legacy that extends far beyond bricks and mortar. It is a story that celebrates the turn of the year’s wheel, of ever-changing landscapes, and of the family found in the unlikeliest of places. __________________________ ‘A delightful book about beauty, joy, love and home... to be celebrated and read.’ Sara Maitland ‘A great queer rural triumph of a book – wonderfully passionate, funny and insightful. It overflows with love.’ Tom Bullough

Biography & Autobiography

Language: en
Pages: 416

On the Red Hill

Authors: Mike Parker

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-06 - Publisher: Random House

Language: en
Pages: 264

The Red Hills

Authors: Cornelius Weygandt

Categories: Art

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-11 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

A personal testament of the author's heritage, The Red Hills outlines the Pennsylvania Dutch lifestyle as Cornelius Weygandt had experienced it. In the book Weygandt exposed his true passion for his heritage and offers a rich variety on Pennsylvania Dutch characteristics, customs, and crafts, written in an entertaining manner by