{"product_id":"west-tales-of-the-lost-lands","title":"West: Tales of the Lost Lands","description":"\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\n\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\n\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":"Amberley Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54242959753560,"sku":"9781398110199","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781398110199_1a5efb21-d7ca-46d0-9ffc-9fb7c7674f62.jpg?v=1766214037","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/west-tales-of-the-lost-lands","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}