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The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail: Travels in the Weirder Reaches of Wales (Hardcover)

by Byron Rogers (Author)

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd (7 Nov 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1854109499
ISBN-13: 978-1854109491
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 14 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Here is the story of Kaiser Wilhelm's holiday in a small Welsh spa town shortly before the outbreak of the Great War, and of the Welsh waxwork museum largely peopled by countless effigies of Prince Philip discarded by Madame Tussaud's. There is the true story of how a project to ensure the survival of the Welsh language came to involve the translation of pornographic novels, and the equally true story of how Kurt Cobain came to meet Courtney Love - in the one nightclub in Newport, South Wales. And there is the utterly baffling tale of how the Holy Grail temporarily came to be in the safe keeping of the manager of Lloyds Bank in Aberystwyth.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Once you start you will go to the end in one go, 3 Dec 2003

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Great Book which proves that fact is stranger than fiction.

Wonderfully written, a great balance of humour and stories of
every day folk in Wales.

With the series of chapters I thought I would dip in and out of this book but I sat down and could not stop. I had to twice so cannot claim to have read it in one go but I would if I could have.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THE BANK MANAGER AND THE HOLY GRAIL - BYRON ROGERS, 30 Jan 2008

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For those of us who used to eagerly await the arrival of the Sunday papers to read his column, this collection of articles by the great Welsh storyteller is a long-awaited treat. Myth and history are given that contemporary insight that makes you feel that you can reach out and touch what is described and the contemporary is given a mythic quality that only a writer who has kept his sense of wonder can evoke. If you don't believe me read the story of the title.

Outsiders may make the best observers because they can judge critically, but insiders tell the best stories because they love their subject.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Secret Wales, 17 Dec 2007

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Just lovely as a book to read slowly. Excellent for anyone who has a gentle sense of humour or a passion for small things.

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