Bøger af Sam Adams

Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters - a quarter century of work.

When it comes to the great sports and entertainment figures of our time, more often than not, we readily remember the home runs, the touchdown passes, the baskets made and other public accomplishments. This is the material that generates talk of greatness about individual athletes. Their statistics roll off our tongues. We know their numbers, but we don't always remember their spoken words. Sure, there have been many athletes who have exhibited the gift of gab - from Yogi Berra's silly quips to Charles Barkley's sometimes-playful, sometimes-controversial rants. But there were other words also spoken; be it after a game, before a practice, in the quiet of the locker room on an off-day or in a setting far away from the playing field. These words may not have appeared in a newspaper or been heard during a television or radio broadcast.These are great lines spoken by some of the greatest performers of our time. And I've taken the liberty to tailor some of them to suit the lessons in life that so many of us still are learning today. Some are the words spoken directly from the most accomplished performers who ever lived. These are quotes from great individuals that have the potential to move you as they moved me.It was a privilege to watch great athletes perform at the highest level of competition. Witnessing the ascension to greatness - from high school standout to college All-American to the professional ranks... from rookies to all-stars, all-stars to champions and champions to Hall of Famers...

Here's an inescapable fact: you will need to get into the root of the problem and lend out help to get that person out of the hold of depression. Depression can be devastating to a person's life and you will have to know to look out for symptoms and warning signs. If you do not help them out at the right time, it can lead to a serious issue that can also be fatal. It is important that you make them understand about the problem and be patient enough to get them out of it. It's time for you to become an amazing person who can change the life of a depressed person and emanate a light of hope with your presence and love.

Welcome to Wakefield. Population 1,534 eccentric people and one exasperated reporter. T.D. Duff is a reporter at the only newspaper in the postage-stamp Southern town of Wakefield. He's a got a degree in journalism, a dead-end job, and a wickedly dry sense of humor. But then, he's not alone in Augusta County. There's Clarence (with one syllable), proud owner of a potato that looks like Tom Selleck; Nosh Jones, who is locked in mortal combat with Roger Shepherd for the title of The Most Famousest Snake Hunter in Augusta County; and Bug Wake, T.D.'s eccentric boss. Join T.D. and his buds, a bevy of buxom beauties and the world's meanest possum for a rollicking romp through the backwoods of Augusta County, a place that is so unimportant, even the state doesn't matter.

A novel set in a mining valley in south Wales during World War II. First friendships among a group of boys are seen from the perspective of the youngest, Jac. Describing their escapades and the coaldust-filled places they explore, it paints a picture of growing up during this fraught period.

Since 1996, Sam Adams's 'Letter from Wales' column has been appearing in PN Review, one of the most highly-regarded UK poetry magazines, offering insight and appreciation of Welsh writing, culture and history. This landmark volume collects these letters - a quarter century of work.

It is the summer of 1954. Four young men, on a summer vacation buyan old car from a farmer and drive it from the hills of Wales all theway to the mountains of Spain. They are innocent and war-scarred, dreamersand realists, men but not much more than boys. This will be their summer to remember.

A study of the strange life and pathetic death of T.J. Llewelyn Prichard, the author of "Twm Sion Catti", the first Welsh novel in English which was popular enough to have been pirated in the mid-19th century.