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How they ruined my Pontesbury

Evelyn Corfield

Is Pontesbury being ruined? Evelyn Corfield lived in the village for 60 years. And in one chapter in her latest book about her beloved Pontesbury - the chapter title is “Pontesbury, what have they done to you?” - she guides, in a sort of “dream walk”, readers around the people and places which were familiar […]

Prison priest’s long sentences

John Waddington-Feather at work

To the prisoners at Shrewsbury Jail, the Rev John Waddington-Feather is “father”, or “boss”, or simply “John”. In between his role as a prison chaplain, and the chore of dialysis three times a week, five hours a time, he writes - and his latest book has just been published.

Book will celebrate Norbury’s past

A new book dedicated to a rural Shropshire village will be launched at a special celebration event next month. Norbury Homes and Families tells the tales of the village, near Bishop’s Castle, and its people over the years.

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Separating fact from mythology

Lost Histories by Joel Levy (Vision Paperbacks, £10.99) - Levy examines some of the world’s great mysteries, trying to separate fact from mythology. Shropshire gets an honourable mention, with the claim that Wroxeter - the Roman city of Viroconium - was the site of King Arthur’s Camelot.

Sweeping view of land

The English Landscape In The Twentieth Century by Trevor Rowley (Hambledon Continuum, £25) - Trevor Rowley is an expert on the Shropshire landscape - the subject of a book of his in the early 1970s - but this latest work takes a more sweeping view across the English countryside.

Al Darlington launches his book

Viking Clothing, by Thor Ewing -  We all think we know what the Vikings were like — they were warriors who wore metal helmets with horns coming out from the side, and pillaged and raped across England.

War stories of a boy soldier

The D-Day Dodger by Al Darlington - A book telling the story of a “D-Day Dodger” — the crass description given by MP Lady Astor of troops fighting in the bloody Italian campaign — is to raise cash for the Severn Hospice.

Galaxy hopping with a bathtub!

Commander Grumble and the crew of 43 Acacia Avenue - Bruce Shepherd of Telford was about a third of the way into writing his first novel when he was hit by every author’s nightmare. “The computer crashed and I had not backed it up,” he said.

War veteran is in print at last

A Shropshire war veteran has launched his autobiography — almost 40 years after he first started it. But Albert Darlington, who was 80 on Wednesday, has had to change the name of the book, “The Apprentice”, to avoid it clashing with the BBC2 show.

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