Sub-titled Travels to the Weirder Reaches of Wales, this is a gentle, somewhat other-worldly book, not short of nostalgic charm, but nonetheless a book that engages by the sheer oddity of some of its subjects. Byron Rogers writes for the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Saga among others and has a refreshingly quiet sense of humour ("...though a hand has written `Free Wales' on a wall, it has done so in discreet small letters in case someone might."). He is equally at home recounting shaggy-dog pub conversations as in renewing the story of the victory of Mons as told by eccentric author Arthur Machin who tells of a point in the battle when the British line is breaking and the German hordes (sic) are about to overrun, when there is a cry of `Harry and St George' "...and out of the sky great arrows come. The ghosts of the archers at Agincourt have returned... Men at the front claimed to have seen German corpses with arrows in them... hooded, cloaked figures of silent gazing men, rank beyond rank..."
Of Anglesey he has much to say about the island's rich folklore, but also adds: "...earlier this year the fish and chip shop closed, which, in Wales, means the end of the world cannot be far off."
This book of short, journalistic pieces has some rousing things to say about history, not least the more recent sort, when the `satanic paedophile' contagion hit in what is generally acknowledged to be one of the most bizarre miscarriages of justice, caught like a virus from Cleveland and Rochdale then moving to the Orkneys before alighting in Pembroke.
Thoroughly entertaining,informative, genuine and amusing.
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