Land Of My Fathers
Aug 2014 · Sold by Hodder & Stoughton
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Set against the background of the Chartist rebellion, LAND OF MY FATHERS
is a heartfelt evocation of the greatest iron town in the world, Merthyr, and of the
people who made it so: foundry-owners and workers, immigrants, fortune-hunters,
idealists, prostitutes and wastrels.
It is also the story of one man, Taliesin Roberts, robust, determined, passionate -
and of a three-sided love that will never die.
is a heartfelt evocation of the greatest iron town in the world, Merthyr, and of the
people who made it so: foundry-owners and workers, immigrants, fortune-hunters,
idealists, prostitutes and wastrels.
It is also the story of one man, Taliesin Roberts, robust, determined, passionate -
and of a three-sided love that will never die.
About the author
Alexander Cordell was born in Ceylon in 1914, was educated mainly in China and joined the army in 1932. After WWII, during which he served in France, he became a civil servant, spending three years in Hong Kong.
He wrote more than thirty novels including the highly acclaimed 'Mortymer Trilogy' - The Rape of the Fair Country, The Hosts of Rebecca and Song of the Earth. He died on 13 November 1997 aged eighty-three
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