Description
Inside you will find thirty stories, originally published in Welsh Country Magazine over a number of years. Each section tells the story beneath a Welsh gravestone.
The gravestones have been carefully selected, with no more than one for each location, which ensures a spread across the whole of the Principality. The stories are arranged alphabetically by location. So the book begins with a terrible double murder in Bassaleg and ends in Wrexham, with the story of Elihu Yale, after whom the American university is named. In between there are stories of shocking murders, tragic accidents and amazing achievements.
More info about this and other books can be found on Geoff Brookes’ website – HERE
Enjoy the following extract on YouTube read by Geoff Brookes
Jon Gower in Nation.cymru –
This is history that is unfiltered and overlooked and Brookes proves himself to be a diligent detective, finding exciting and unexpected tales in epitaphs, cenotaphs, monuments and ivy-bedecked graves all over the country. As books go it’s the very opposite of a dead loss!