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Mr B. George Balanchine's Twentieth Century
Jennifer Homans
Byron Rogers
R.S. Thomas is accepted, along with Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, as one of the great post-war British poets. All his life, he was a minister in the Church of Wales, at a succession of increasingly remote country parishes. This is a hilarious story of this man's life, and that of his household.
Byron Rogers is the author of The Last Englishman: The Life of J.L.Carr (‘A miniature masterpiece of social history’ – Simon Jenkins in The Times.); The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail; Travels on the Wilder Side of Wales (‘Completely mad and very charming’ – Jeremy Paxman, Observer Books of the Year) and many others. He lives in Carmarthen and Northamptonshire.
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Jennifer Homans
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Nathan Thrall
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Tiya Miles
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Tania Branigan