Rod Lyon, former Grand Bard of the Gorseth Kernow, recollects his early days fishing out of Newquay, "in the days before modern electronic aids, man-made fibre ropes, twines and cords, plastic 'skins' and floats instead of cork ...when navigation to and from the gear was by dead reckoning, using only a watch and a compass, with only experience telling you what to allow for with the tide." Rod illustrates, in both words and pictures, the techniques and the equipment used in those bygone days, and along the way remembers some of the more notable characters, both Cornish and Breton, who frequented 'Down Quay'. The book also includes a gazetteer of his favourite fishing grounds.

Shut Away!: My Early Days Fishing out of Newquay and Things in General 'Down Quay'

Biographies & Memoirs

LYON, Rod

Memoirs

The Cornovia Press

Gathering the Fragments: The Selected Essays of a Groundbreaking Historian

This selection of work by Professor Charles Thomas, Cornwall's leading historian, focuses on the more elusive titles from his long and illustrious career and covers the whole range of his output from folklore and archaeology to military and local history, and from cerealogy to cryptozoology. The book also includes unpublished material, as well as specially composed introductions to each chapter, a full biography and a select bibliography. Professor Charles Thomas CBE DL DLitt FBA FSA is a former President of the Council for British Archaeology, the Society for Medieval Archaeology, the Royal Institution of Cornwall, the Cornwall Archaeological Society and the Cornish Methodist Historical Society. He is currently the President of The John Harris Society. Edited by Chris Bond. This book is also available in a paperback edition. Hardcover : ISBN 978 1 908878 02 1; Paperback : ISBN 978 1 908878 03 8. Published by The Cornovia Press, 2012.

History

Charles, Thomas

Europe

This selection of work by Professor Charles Thomas, Cornwall's leading historian, focuses on the more elusive titles from his long and illustrious career and covers the whole range of his output from folklore and archaeology to military and local history, and from cerealogy to cryptozoology. The book also includes unpublished material, as well as specially composed introductions to each chapter, a full biography and a select bibliography.

THOMAS, Charles

Rod Lyon, BBC Radio Cornwall presenter and former Grand Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow, takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the ages, and through the forgotten wars between the Cornish and their old enemies, the English, revealing a history not taught in schools, and one missing from the 'official' history books. From the early wars with the Saxons, through the rebellions of 1497 and 1549, and on to the Civil War, Rod traces the bloody events which helped to shape the culture and national identity of the Cornish people. This book is essential reading for all those who want to learn the truth about Cornwall's hidden history.

Cornwall's Historical Wars: A Brief Introduction

Military

Many young women 'long to put the clock back to the post-war years when life seemed prettier and nicer.' In this book Jessica Mann demolishes such preconceptions about their mothers' or grandmothers' young days, showing that in reality life was uglier and nastier. Born just before WW2, she grew up in the post-war era of austerity, restrictions and hypocrisy, before anyone even dreamed of Women's Lib. The Fifties Mystique is both a personal memoir and a polemic. In explaining the lives of pre-feminists to the post-feminists of today, Mann discusses the period's very different attitudes to sex, childbirth, motherhood and work, describes how she and other young women lived in that distant world with its forgotten restrictions and warns against taking hard-won rights for granted. "Jessica Mann analyses the decade with forensic precision — stripping away the rose-coloured specs for good" — The Daily Mail "thoughtful and emphatic — a richly readable and persuasive piece of work" — Penelope Lively, The Spectator an "excellently readable book" — Katharine Whitehorn "Her battle cry is full of vivid descriptions of the grim, snobbery and casual misogyny of postwar Britain. A crime-writer by trade, her barely veiled exasperation only makes the polemic more enjoyable." — The Mail on Sunday "an extremely engaging read: revealing, touching, informative and occasionally comic." — Simon Parker, The Western Morning News "She recalls the grime of the 50s: endless stinking nappy buckets; smog; inadequate washing facilities; body odour whenever people were crowded together. She recalls boredom and isolation, and suspects both the child-rearing experts and the government of a concerted push to get mothers back home after the war, so that there would be jobs for the returning 'boys'. And she recalls the unacceptability of talking, or sometimes even knowing, about sex, female anatomy, and cancer. She is bang on." - Baroness Neuberger, The Jewish Chronicle

The Fifties Mystique

MANN, Jessica

Community & Culture

All Cornwall Thunders at My Door is the first full biography of Charles Causley to be published, timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of his death in 2003. Laurence Green has compiled a great deal of information concerning Causley’s life in Cornwall and beyond, of his personal history, his influences and motivations, helping to give context to the great legacy left to us by “the greatest poet laureate we never had.” “This is the first biography of Charles Causley, and takes us towards the heart of a marvellous poet and deeply intriguing man. It’s all well done: clear, sympathetic, appreciative and shrewd. Everyone who loves Causley’s poems will want to read it.” — Sir Andrew Motion. Includes photographs not previously published and a foreword by Dr Alan M. Kent. Winner of The Cornish Literary Guild Salver for outstanding authorship at the 2014 Holyer an Gof awards.

All Cornwall Thunders at My Door: A Biography of Charles Causley

Green, Laurence

Arts & Literature

Len Truran was, until his death in 1997, a highly influential figure within the fields of politics and culture in Cornwall. He joined Mebyon Kernow in 1964 and, over the years, acted as both secretary and chairman of the party. His publications, under the imprint of Dyllansow Truran, are widely recognised as being seminal in the story of Cornish publishing. In this book Derek R. Williams explores the life of Len Truran, from his childhood through to his pivotal role in Mebyon Kernow and the campaign for the creation of a Cornish Assembly and on to the remarkably prolific and influential publisher he became.

Following 'An Gof': Leonard Truran, Cornish Activist and Publisher

Williams, Derek R.

Vienna in the early 20th century was, in the words of our protagonist and narrator, a soulless, syphilitic whore of a city; a turbulent and bubbling melting pot of races, creeds and politics, rapidly expanding as it strained to contain the ever-increasing multitudes. In such places the nightmare moments of modern history are conceived. This novel is a fictionalised account of those who were to change the very collective psyche of mankind. It is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the sometimes thin dividing line between becoming good or evil. D. M. Thomas is a British novelist and poet, born and living in Cornwall. His novel The White Hotel was an international bestseller and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is rightly considered a modern classic. John Updike said of the book: ‘Astonishing … A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness’; the statement could equally be applied to Hunters in the Snow.

Hunters in the Snow

THOMAS, D.M.

Literature & Fiction

Following ‘An Gof’: Leonard Truran, Cornish Activist and Publisher

Genre Fiction

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the The Cornovia Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by The Cornovia Press

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the The Cornovia Press publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Shut Away!: My Early Days Fishing out of Newquay and Things in General 'Down Quay'

Gathering the Fragments: The Selected Essays of a Groundbreaking Historian

Gathering the Fragments: The Selected Essays of a Groundbreaking Historian

Cornwall's Historical Wars: A Brief Introduction

The Fifties Mystique

All Cornwall Thunders at My Door: A Biography of Charles Causley

Following 'An Gof': Leonard Truran, Cornish Activist and Publisher

Hunters in the Snow

Following ‘An Gof’: Leonard Truran, Cornish Activist and Publisher

Hunters in the Snow