Lloyd Jones

FICCION EN INGLÉS : LITERARIA

Small-minded academic Dr Llwyd Mcnamara has a grant to research Wales biggest here, rugby star Dylan Manawydan Jones - Big M. But as he plays with USB sticks in his office, the gods have other plans Lloyd Jones retells this Third Branch of the Celtic myth cycle the Mabinogion with his usual wit, imaginative intelligence and love of language.

Un divertido libro de solapas que muestra a los niños distintos aspectos de las competiciones deportivas importantes y les presenta una amplia gama de deportes.Entre las numerosas escenas hay una piscina olimpica, una pista de atletismo y un velodromo.Con ilustraciones llamativas repletas de detalles y mas de 100 solapas que levantar para descubrir informacion interesante sobre deportes de todo tipo. ¡Y algunas solapas escoden otra solapa debajo!

Winner of the McKitterick First Novel Award. Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. "One of the most remarkable books ever written on the subject of Wales" Jan Morris on Lloyd Jones extraordinary debut novel, Mr Vogel. Acclaimed novelist Iain Sinclair, meanwhile, has described it as "the tour-guide Wales has been waiting for." One of the most original and engaging novels to appear from and about Wales in recent years, Mr Vogel is all the more remarkable for the authors own amazing story. Following a bout of alcoholism which nearly killed him, Lloyd decided to recuperate by walking around Wales. It was this epic walk which inspired Lloyd to write Mr Vogel, "an astonishing mixture of fantasy, philosophy and travel" (Jan Morris). The novel begins with the discovery, in the attic of a second-hand bookshop, of an account of a lame mans mysterious quest the so-called Vogel Papers; the account tells of an unnamed colonial outpost, a land which resembles Wales but which is somehow skewed. Our guide, a Welshman, becomes obsessed with the Vogel Papers: his investigations take him across three continents and around his homeland from Anglesey to Pembrokeshire, from Bangor to the Black Mountains in search of a strange man known only as Mr Vogel. Accompanied by his reprobate friends Paddy and Waldo, as well as a motley crowd of academics, osteopaths and famous writers (not to mention a piglet and a couple of teddybears), our narrator gradually nears the end of his search. Only then does it become clear that the real Mr Vogel was never very far away after all. Mr Vogel is a story of one mans dream of freedom, love and friendship. Compelling and warm-hearted, it is at once a novel, an anthology and a memoir; above all it is a reflection on the importance of hope and a celebration of Wales culture, landscape and people. In the words of Iain Sinclair, "Stop what youre doing and listen to this mongrel monologue!"

Love, angels, addiction and death; theyre all here in My First Colouring Book, a collection of short stories from award-winning novelist Lloyd Jones. Themed on all the colours of the rainbow - and a few extra - these stories and essays paint a picture of criss-crossing lives. They are spoken by an unexpected variety of voices: a young girl has adventures in the night, a surgeion becomes a shepherd; a middle-aged man seeks love for the last time. And his travel essays, sent from the compass points of his home country, Wales, are not to be missed.

WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2007 "Lloyd Joness psychogeographic epic about, among other things, Wales, football, water-divining, madness, vampires, Merlin, legends, policemen, birds, mannequins and picnics, is full of ideas but (purposefully) spirals far away from any kind of narrative. Absurdist and resonant, this is a meditation on a nation that is anything but straightforward." THE GUARDIAN "Few people write with this much verve any more. An extraordinary work of the imagination." THE INDEPENDENT "Lyrical and inventive." THE TIMES Mr Cassini, the remarkable follow-up to the award-winning Mr Vogel, is an amazing journey through the geography of one mans troubled mind as he tries to recover the lost years of his childhood. Duxie is a dreamer with holes in his memory. With the help of a mysterious and beautiful girl he sets out on a quest to fill the gaps in his history. And as they search the landscapes and myths of the past they uncover domestic and national tyranny. The tale twists together strands of dream, daydream and reality as Duxie journeys towards freedom and a final understanding of what caused his amnesia. Because lurking deep within his dreams is a sinister, vampire figure called Mr Cassini, who drinks womens tears, keeps stolen mannequins in a darkened room, and gets up to terrible deeds with his policeman side-kick. Journeying through time, Duxie investigates caves and wells, mystics and madness, and seeks out four extraordinary champions to help him stage a showcase trial on a mountain in the centre of Wales. Mr Cassini is a novel with many themes, including monsters, snow, picnics, islands, drugs, rainbows, eating disorders, insects, justice and magic. Lloyd Jones walked around Wales a journey of more than a thousand miles while writing his first novel, the prize-winning Mr Vogel. For Mr Cassini he changed tack, walking across Wales seven times in seven different directions. The result is an ambitious and brilliant exploration of lost childhood and the distortions of the past. Learned, funny and tragic, Mr Cassini is told in dazzling colour.

Jones traveled to Albania in 1991 and found a wild wonderful world which he describes here.

Hacia 1991, durante los primeros compases de la guerra civil que asoló la remota isla de Bougainville, la joven Matilda y su madre viven solas ante la ausencia del padre, que debió emigrar tras perder su trabajo en las minas de cobre. Entre quienes se quedaron en la isla esta el señor Watts, un excentrico hombre blanco que un buen dia decide reabrir las puertas de la escuela y ejercer de maestro. Su metodo es combinar la lectura en voz alta de capitulos de Grandes esperanzas, su novela favorita de Charles Dickens, con la intervencion de las gentes del pueblo que quieran compartir consejos practicos acerca de como sobrevivir en su entorno. De esta forma, el improvisado maestro logra atrapar el interes de sus jovenes alumnos, cautivados por las aventuras y desventuras de Pip, el joven huerfano protagonista de la novela de Dickens. Para Matilda, Pip es tan real como su madre, alguien que ademas de ofrecerle orientacion y consuelo se convierte en la amistad mas fecunda e importante de su vida. Sin embargo, en un pais en guerra, el poder de la imaginacion puede ser visto como una provocacion peligrosa. Con la publicacion de El señor Pip, Lloyd Jones se convirtio en uno de los escritores mas celebres de Nueva Zelanda, y merced al boca a oreja, el libro se encumbro hasta el primer lugar de las listas de exitos de su pais y Australia. Ganadora del Premio de la Commonwealth e inesperada finalista del Premio Man Booker, la novela es una emocionante fabula sobre la relacion entre la literatura y la vida y uno de los textos mas originales y con mayor repercusion internacional de los ultimos años.

Agosto de 1905. Un grupo de chicos se sube a un barco en Auckland, NuevaZelanda, y emprende un largo viaje rumbo a Inglaterra, primera etapa de unagira gloriosa que les llevará por tierras lejanas y por ciudades modernas ycaoticas. Son los legendarios Original All Blacks, aunque ellos todavia no sabenque su destino sera convertirse en una leyenda del rugby.Entre ellos hay dos zapateros, dos herreros, tres agricultores, un encargado dematadero, dos mineros, un funcionario y un empleado de banca, un exjinete, doscorredores profesionales y un carpintero.De victoria en victoria, de exito en exito, seguimos la experiencia abrumadora delmitico equipo hasta el dia de su vuelta a casa, cuando tocan la gloria y entranocialmente en la leyenda.Lloyd Jones narra con un estilo medido y conmovedor, entre las notas de viaje yla poesia, entre la epica y la historia cotidiana, la mitica gira que dio a conocer almundo entero un deporte y un equipo inigualable: los chicos vestidos de negro,que entusiasmaban a las multitudes con su juego y con su misteriosa danzamaori, cosecharon en esta gira ochocientos treinta puntos y solo concedierontreinta y nueve en contra.EL AUTORLloyd Jones nacio en Nueva Zelanda en 1955 y vive en Wellington.Es autor de novelas, relatos y ensayos. Con Mister Pip (Salamandra, 2008)gano el Premio de...

La guerra esclata i els soldats arriben a l illa de la Matilda. A l indret només hi queda un home blanc, el senyor Watts, que porta un nas vermell i empeny la seva dona per l illa en un carretó. Els nens l anomenen Pop Eye, i és l únic que els pot donar classe. El senyor Watts comença a llegir-los en veu alta Grans esperances, en una còpia molt atrotinada de la novel"la del seu amic el senyor Dickens. Aviat, l heroi de la novel"la, en Pip, comença a fer-se més i més vívid als ulls de la Matilda, que es dedica a escriure el seu nom a la sorra i decorar-lo amb petxines. El senyor Pip es converteix en una persona real que l acompanya pertot; l amistat més gran de la seva vida acaba de néixer. Però la Matilda no és l única que creu en l exitència del senyor Pip. I, en una illa en guerra, el poder de la imaginació pot ser una cosa molt perillosa. Finalista del prestigiós Premi Booker del 2007, El senyor Pip és una faula sobre el poder de transformació de la literatura i un homenatge a un dels més grans escriptors de tots els temps, Charles Dickens.