Peter Lord, considered to be the greatest living scholar on Welsh visual art and culture, surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history. Written for everyone with an interest in the art and history of Wales, the volume illustrates some 400 landscapes and portrait paintings, prints and sculptures from artists such as Augustus John, Ceri Richards, Christopher Williams and many more. The author ...

The creators of Chicken Run and the Wallace & Gromit series share the inside story of their Oscar award-winning animation company.Aardman Animations was founded in 1972 by Peter Lord and David Sproxton. Joined by animator Nick Park in 1985, Aardman pioneered a quirky, lovable style of stop-motion animation and brought to life a string of unforgettable movies and television shows, including the highest-grossing stop-animated film of all time, Chicken Run...

Christians often struggle with prayer because it has become a one-way conversation with the ceiling. It doesn't have to be this way! In this revised and updated edition of the classic bestseller, Peter Lord offers an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to developing a rich prayer life--moving believers from one-way communication to God to two-way communication with God. He answers such questions asCan I hear God's voice today?How can I discern the difference between God's voi...

"When you bless," says Peter Lord, "dramatic, miraculous changes take place."In Bless and Be Blessed, this author and pastor shares how we often neglect to bless others until after death. But it is much more useful to give a good or well-meaning word to our loved ones while they are still alive. Coworkers, children, spouses, and friends all need uplifting messages when they can hear, receive, and be transformed by them.With wisdom, personal anecdotes, and hands-on exercises...

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Nobby Clifton, a petty crook most of his life is scared of dying in prison so he decides to retire from the game and go to live with his brother who runs a cafe and gift shop in the little village of Grinding Halt, a little coastal holiday village. Unfortunately his sister-in-law can't stand him but his niece Thelma idolises him so it isn't all bad. Unfortunately for Nobby an old adversary of his Nigel Pugh, a newly retired prison officer has bought the redundant railway station in Grindin...

The six sequential essays in this collection provide a narrative of a century and a half of Welsh painting, written with an emphasis on issues of social class and national identity. Through his earlier writing, Peter Lord has contributed to the establishment of an historical tradition of Welsh painting, but because it does not feature in the wider story of Western art history as presently told, the work revealed continues to be perceived as marginal, existing in isolation from ideas and mo...

In this story about Josh and his magic snow dome, the action takes place not as you might think in Christmasland as it normally does when Christmasland is in danger - which is a lot of the time - but at Bide-a-Wee; those of you who have read the other stories will know that Bid-a-Wee is the retirement home for elves and pixies at Torquay, Devon in England. In these days where any form of discrimination is frowned up Bide-a-Wee now takes residents from the Gnome and Goblin communities as we...

In this story you get two for the price of one. The first is an intriguing story called 'Josh, the hole in the wall and the mists of time'. A hole, the entrance to a tunnel, mysteriously appears in the wall of the pretty big shed; upon entering this dark and damp tunnel the explorer goes back in time to meet smugglers and pirates.The second story 'Josh, the tin soldiers and a double wedding' involves the scary tin soldiers who take over Christmasland: Josh is urgently needed to hel...

Christmasland is invaded by the Arctic Dragons, a little known species of animal that normally are very timid and stay out of sight. The mystery is why have they invaded Christmasland and why have they surrounded the house of Santa Claus making him a prisoner? They need Josh to help find out what is going on!

Peter is an author and a recluse, he isn't keen on the human race and tends to keep well clear, which is why the cofid pandemic has hardly any effect on his life - so far. He has decided to keep a diary and also to experiment with Skype. One day there is a message on Skype which changes his life for ever, which is complicated even more when a beautiful young woman who lives in the house opposite decides that she is going to be a regular visitor for coffee and dunking biscuits, maybe more.

Titus Andromeda DuqSars was born into the aristocracy, specifically the idiot son of Baron DuqSars of Dunloughin Castle, hidden deep in the mountains of Wales. After an unfortunate string of events Titus finds himself the present Baron of all he surveys, but unfortunately with neither the wit nor the money to support this lifestyle. In order to survive financially he teams up with a beautiful girl, Lady Penelope de Redful and he begins to wage war on unfortunate travellers as a highway man...