LINKS

The following links may prove of interest (links will open in a new browser window):

The Official Powys Society website

www.powys-society.org

·         A site devoted to the remarkable Powys family.

Dorset County Museum

www.dorsetcountymuseum.org/awritersdorset.htm

·         A Writer's Dorset. The gallery explores the lives and work of Dorset writers from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth century. Amongst the twentieth century literary figures to be found in the gallery's final room are three members of the remarkable Powys family.

Alan Baker (Illustrator)

www.alanbakeronline.com

·         The specially commissioned front cover illustration for the jacket of RED DIE was created by Alan Baker who won the Benson and Hedges Illustrators Gold Award, among many others. He has illustrated books by Louis de Berniere, Michael Rosen, and Philippa Pearce. He has also written and illustrated over 40 books of his own, six of which have been chosen for the book of the year list. Further information can be found at www.illustrationweb.com/illustrators/home.asp?artist_id=11&page=3&anim=N or you can contact him here

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (Illustrator)

www.nicholashelyhutchinson.com

·         The paintings featured on the covers of DURDLE DOOR TO DARTMOOR 'On the Dorset Cliff Path' and STILL BLUE BEAUTY 'Edge of a Bluebell Wood' are by Nicholas Hely Hutchinson. Since his first one-man exhibition in 1984 Nicholas has exhibited consistently in London, Dublin and Hong Kong.  His paintings have increasingly become more in demand and now feature in many collections. Nicholas lives in the heart of Dorset and derives much of his inspiration from the surrounding countryside and the coast. He also travels to some of his favourite places to paint - particularly Venice, Paris, the West of Ireland and Cornwall.

bagg theatre company

http://www.baggtheatre.co.uk/productions/unclay.html

·         UNCLAY is bagg theatre’s first commission, currently being developed by writer Michael Caines and artistic director, Laura Baggaley.

UNCLAY was published in 1931 and is a peculiar novel set in an English village called Dodder. In the story, Death visits the village but mislays a piece of paper on which is written the names of the two inhabitants he is sent to ‘unclay’. Not knowing what to do, John Death takes a holiday in Dodder.

The village is peopled with eccentric English characters, such as the clergyman Mr Hayhoe, who puts his faith equally in the writings of the Bible and Jane Austen; Mr Solly, who is terrified of falling in love; Joe Bridle who is already in love; and his Aunt Sarah, who calmly believes herself to be a camel. Unclay is a unique piece of writing, a curious and humorous mix of fiction and fable, with an engrossing and suspenseful narrative, and fantastic theatrical potential.

Alyse Gregory [The Literary Encyclopaedia]

www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=6025

·         'Hester Craddock, again takes up the themes of love, friendship and jealousy in a work in which her imaginative and stylistic skills have been finely honed to recreate the inner consciousness of four tormented characters, arguably rivalling Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in its portrayal of the sisters, Nelly and Hester and their friends Halmath Tryan and Edwin Pallant.'

A Powys Web Site

www.powys-lannion.net/Powys/America/AG.htm

·         Jacqueline Peltier is the author of Alyse Gregory: A Woman at her Window (Cecil Woolf Publishers, London 1999.). Her website, in both English and French, is largely devoted to the three literary Powys brothers: John Cowper, Theodore, and Llewelyn (husband of Alyse Gregory).

The Brynmill Press

www.edgewaysbooks.com

·         Published by The Brynmill Press for the first time are: Father Adam, The Market Bell, Mock's Curse, The Sixpenny Strumpet and  Selected Early Works of T.F. Powys ...

The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

www.townsendwarner.com

·         For several years, during the late 1920s and 1930's, Sylvia Townsend Warner and her partner, Valentine Ackland, lived in the village of East Chaldon and were close friends to Philippa Powys and Alyse Gregory.

Black Dog Books

www.blackdogbooks.co.uk

·         Publishers of Chaldon Herring - Writers in a Dorset Landscape by Judith Stinton - New edition, 2004, with 80 b&w illustrations. Also, the recently published Dorset Stories by Syvia Townsend Warner (2006).

Welcome to Local Bookshops

www.localbookshops.co.uk

·         A world of books – just around the corner. The online home for independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland.

Peter Foss

Peter Foss The authority on Llewelyn Powys and the author of fifteen books including A Bibliography of Llewelyn Powys.

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