Martin Wall West Tales of the Lost Lands review, recensie en informatie memoir over de Midlands in Engeland. Op 15 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Amberley Publishing de memoir van Martin Wall over de Engelse West Midlands. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.
Martin Wall West Tales of the Lost Lands review en recensie
- “Reveals both wonder and wisdom.” (Country Life)
West
Tales of the Lost Lands
- Auteur: Martin Wall (Engeland)
- Soort boek: memoir over de Engelse Midlands
- Taal: Engels
- Verschijnt: 15 augustus 2025
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 11,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het memoir over de West-Midlands in Engeland
Part personal memoir, part cultural history, West is a compendium of ‘tales’, telling the story of a unique geographical and literary landscape – the western Midlands of England. It is a magpie’s nest, a melange of anecdotes, folk legends, ghost stories and fairy tales. But more than this, it is a record of a land and its people, told over 2,000 years of history – a land that birthed both industrial and cultural revolutions.
A native of the area, Martin Wall takes us on a search for lost time in the Lost Lands of the west, charting the liminal energies which have so influenced our literature – and himself. Shamelessly nostalgic, sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, these tales invite us to immerse ourselves in the past, present and future, to become ‘unstuck in time’.
How were the lands ‘lost’? The author laments the decline and fall of a succession of cultures, from the Celtic principality of Pengwern and the mighty kingdom of Mercia to the end of heavy industry in the late twentieth century. With a thoughtful foreword by Robert Plant, West takes history to a new imaginative edge.
Martin Wall inherited his passionate interest in local history and folklore from his father and has been writing about these subjects for ten years. He lectures historical groups on a variety of subjects and acts as a gallery interpreter in his spare time. He is the author of ‘Warriors and Kings’, ‘The Anglo Saxon Age’ and ‘The Magical History of Britain’.