{"product_id":"9781398129061","title":"West: Tales of the Lost Lands","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Wall, Martin \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 15\/08\/2025,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 288 pages, 30 Illustrations,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781398129061,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart personal memoir, part cultural history, West is a compendium of ‘tales’, telling the story of a unique geographical and literary landscape – the western Midlands of England. It is a magpie’s nest, a melange of anecdotes, folk legends, ghost stories and fairy tales. But more than this, it is a record of a land and its people, told over 2,000 years of history – a land that birthed both industrial and cultural revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA native of the area, Martin Wall takes us on a search for lost time in the Lost Lands of the west, charting the liminal energies which have so influenced our literature – and himself. Shamelessly nostalgic, sometimes tender, sometimes brutal, these tales invite us to immerse ourselves in the past, present and future, to become ‘unstuck in time’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow were the lands ‘lost’? The author laments the decline and fall of a succession of cultures, from the Celtic principality of Pengwern and the mighty kingdom of Mercia to the end of heavy industry in the late twentieth century. With a thoughtful foreword by Robert Plant, West takes history to a new imaginative edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55499148919157,"sku":"9781398129061","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781398129061.jpg?v=1750069215","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781398129061","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}