Tide-race is a remarkable account of life on Bardsey (known as Ynys Enlli to Welsh speakers), a remote and mysterious island off the coast of North Wales. Painter and writer Brenda Chamberlain lived on the island from 1947 to 1961, during the last days of its hardy community. The combination of Bardsey, ancient site of Christian pilgrimage, wild and dangerous landscape, and Brenda Chamberlain, Royal Academy trained artist, results in a classic book, vividly illustrated by the author's line drawings. This edition includes an Afterword by fellow artist Jonah Jones.

Tide Race

Biographies & Memoirs

Chamberlain, Brenda

Arts & Literature

Seren

Never before published, written 'at white-heat in three weeks' in autumn 1967 after two visits to the detention island of Léros in the Greek Dodecanese, The Protagonists is Chamberlain's response - both heartbreakingly lyrical and disturbingly visceral - to the right-wing Colonels' Coup of April 1967.

The Protagonists

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Parthian Books

A beautiful and personal account, this memoir recalls the time spent by Brenda Chamberlain on the Greek Island of Ydra in the early 1960s. Sea and harbor, mountain and monastery, her neighbors and friends are unforgettably pictured; these were the realities outside herself while within there was a conflict of emotion and warring desires. Joy and woe are woven fine in this record: the delight of a multitude of fresh experiences thronging to the senses, the suffering from which she emerges with new understanding of herself and human existence.

A Rope of Vines: Journal from a Greek Island (Library of Wales)

Community & Culture

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