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<lastBuildDate>Maw, 9 Awst 2016 20:58:27 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>&#x22;&#x2026;lonely pioneer in Welsh e-classics&#x22;</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>books</category><dc:date>2016-08-03T18:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/84b136cacfb23e36d496bc7cfce84272-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/84b136cacfb23e36d496bc7cfce84272-35.html#unique-entry-id-35</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dwi wedi canu clodydd Kindle yn y golofn hon o&rsquo;r blaen, ond rai blynyddoedd yn ddiweddarach ymddengys fod y ddadl rhwng darllenwyr e-lyfrau a&rsquo;r rheiny sy&rsquo;n mynnu glynu wrth lyfrau &lsquo;go-iawn&rsquo; yn dal i rygnu &lsquo;mlaen.

Mater o reidrwydd oedd troi at e-lyfrau i mi &ndash; hynny neu gael gwared a sypiau o&rsquo;r cyfrolau sy&rsquo;n gwneud i&rsquo;r silffoedd wegian er mwyn gwneud lle i rai newydd, ond doedd gen i ddim awydd mynd trwy&rsquo;r broses lafurus o ddidoli a gwaredu dro ar &ocirc;l tro. 

...Ond er imi dybio y byddai hynny&rsquo;n broblem i minnau, buan y sylweddolais mai cynnwys llyfr ydi&rsquo;r peth pwysicaf amdano a bod modd ymgolli&rsquo;n well, os rhywbeth, pan nad oes cloriau anhylaw neu brint rhy f&acirc;n i darfu ar fy mwynhad.

Enghraifft o hyn oedd Awst yn Anogia, nofel orchestol Gareth F. Williams, a fyddai wedi bod yn haws ei darllen ar ffurf lle mae modd addasu&rsquo;r print; a go brin y buaswn wedi bwrw ati i ddarllen Great Expectations Charles Dickens efo&rsquo;r fath afiaith pe bawn i wedi gorfod ymgodymu&rsquo;n gorfforol &acirc;&rsquo;r fath globyn. 

...Ond yn gyntaf, rhaid symud efo&rsquo;r oes a mynd ati i gyhoeddi rhagor o e-lyfrau cyfoes Cymraeg, gan mai&rsquo;r Lolfa a Gomer ydi&rsquo;r unig weisg sy&rsquo;n gwneud hynny ar hyn o bryd a hynny ddim ond gyda&rsquo;u prif deitlau.

...Trwydded farddol ydi peth felly, wrth gwrs, ond hyd yn oed petai modd gweld &ocirc;l dagrau wedi sychu ar dudalen, mi fyddai&rsquo;n rhaid i&rsquo;r llyfrau felly fod yn rhai ail-law neu wedi&rsquo;u benthyg, ac mae benthyca llyfrau yn hen arferiad cybyddlyd, Cymreig sy&rsquo;n codi &rsquo;ngwrychyn i. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Silff Storis</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><dc:subject>cromen</dc:subject><dc:date>2015-04-14T19:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/7080480fc353c25d0f1adef7e4559f1a-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/7080480fc353c25d0f1adef7e4559f1a-34.html#unique-entry-id-34</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[An art and story project for Gwynedd families has released a book following a series of creative workshops at the Children&rsquo;s Unit at Ysbyty Gwynedd and for children linked to Derwen, an Integrated Team for Disabled Children in the county.


Gwynedd Council&rsquo;s Community Arts Unit has been working in partnership with artist Catrin Williams and storyteller Fiona Collins to deliver an art and story project for children and families in Gwynedd since November 2014. 


The project&rsquo;s main aim was to deliver a series of creative activities to create, collect and share images and stories made by children and young people. ...  This new book will hopefully encourage children and families to read together and will raise awareness of the benefits of creativity on health and wellbeing. 


The Silff Storis book contains a wide variety of stories created by the children; tales about cowboys, a spaceman, a crocodile and invisible flying rabbits.


...Silff Storis is available as a free digital e-book in iPad, epub and mobi formats, it can also be ordered as a hardback book for &pound;20, full details on the Silff Storis page.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Golwg - full page article</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2014-10-25T20:04:51+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/dd04e53b2410ce69692d7b6bd2ffbd3b-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/dd04e53b2410ce69692d7b6bd2ffbd3b-33.html#unique-entry-id-33</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Cafodd y casgliad o straeon byrion gan W J Griffith ei chyhoeddi gyntaf ym mhapurau newydd Y Genedl Gymreig a Y Genedl, a'u golygu mewn un llyfr yn 1938 gan T Rowland Hughes a ddywedodd yn y rhagair: "Wele saith stori a digrifwch melys yn fwrlwm trwyddynt, a'r cymeriadau yn rhai nad anghofir mohonynt yn rhwydd, stor&iuml;au y gellir troi iddynt drachefn a thrachefn, i chwerthin eto am ben helbulon pobl Llanaraf."


...Ei fwriad gwreiddiol oedd cyhoeddi hen nofelau Cymraeg fel e-lyfrau ond mae'r wasg bellach yn cyhoeddi clasuron Saesneg o Gymru am eu bod yn gwerthu'n dda ar-lein.


"Dw i'n medru cael fy llyfrau mewn lot o wahanol siopau e-lyfrau ar draws y byd," meddai Bedwyr ab Iestyn. 

...Er bod rhai siopau Cymraeg annibynnol a gwefan Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru, Gwales, bellach yn cynnig gwasanaeth e-lyfrau, mae Amazon yn siop rhy hwylus, yn &ocirc;l Bedwyr ab Iestyn.


...The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, teithlyfr enwog W H Davies, a'i ragair gan George Bemard Shaw, sy'n gwerthu orau gyda In Pursuit of Spring gan Edward Thomas, adolygydd a bardd o dras Gymreig yn boblogaidd hefyd.


..."Ro'n i wedi clywed amdano ers tro ond ddim wedi gweld y llyfr," meddai am yr hanes a gafodd ei droi&rsquo;n ffilm, Y Ffordd i En-dor, ar gyfer cyfres Almanac ar S4C yn yr 1980au.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Amateur dramatics</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><category>cover</category><dc:date>2014-10-23T20:48:53+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9408002e0aa37bf456d3f4d686f78c51-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9408002e0aa37bf456d3f4d686f78c51-32.html#unique-entry-id-32</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sarnau Drama Company - Cwmni Drama Sarnau - cast of the play Modryb Martha from 1925 . . .


top row from left to right - Preis Rowlands, William Davies, John Griffiths, Anti Gladys, J.F. Owen


...Jones, Anti Ethel, Emily Griffith, Bob Lloyd (Llwyd o'r Bryn)


T Rowland Hughes described the stories of W J Griffith, which he brought together under the title Stor&iuml;au&rsquo;r Henllys Fawr, as &ldquo;seven stories bubbling with sweet humour, and characters which can't be easily forgotten, stories which one can return to time and time again, to laugh once more at the antics and problems of the residents of Llanaraf.&rdquo;


One of these stories, Antur y ddrama, is available for free &ndash; click on this link to download your chosen format.


The full collection of Stor&iuml;au&rsquo;r Henllys Fawr is available as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Lulu.com &ndash; go to the Stor&iuml;au&rsquo;r Henllys Fawr page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>EH Jones&#x27;s En-dor reviewed</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>review</category><dc:date>2014-10-23T20:31:46+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e8d76584830aa28c895cb1671c778a29-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e8d76584830aa28c895cb1671c778a29-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&ldquo;Lieutenant Elias Henry Jones was a Welsh officer in the Indian Army, captured by Ottoman forces during the First World War and interned in the notorious Yozgad prisoner of war camp in Turkey.   What happened next might never have been known, had the lieutenant not escaped from the camp and written a memoir, originally published in 1919: The Road to En-dor, which is coming out in a new release nearly one hundred years after it was first published.


&ldquo;The autobiographical tale follows the young EH Jones as he adjusts to life in Yozgad under the eagle-eyed camp commandant and his officious underlings.   There the story might have ended, too, had the inmates of the camp not decided to experiment with that most quintessentially Victorian spiritualist pastime &ndash; the Ouija board.&rdquo;


..."This is a book about resistance to tyranny, and the evergreen ability of the human spirit to refresh itself through hardship."


...The Road to En-dor is available as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to The Road to En-dor page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>One of seven stories available for free</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2014-09-03T18:30:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/245561108802c7f0cf0da99e08f21f6a-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/245561108802c7f0cf0da99e08f21f6a-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[T Rowland Hughes described the stories of W J Griffith, which he brought together under the title Stor&iuml;au&rsquo;r Henllys Fawr, as &ldquo;seven stories bubbling with sweet humour, and characters which can't be easily forgotten, stories which one can return to time and time again, to laugh once more at the antics and problems of the residents of Llanaraf.&rdquo;


One of these stories, Antur y ddrama, is available for free &ndash; click on this link to download your chosen format.


The full collection of Stor&iuml;au&rsquo;r Henllys Fawr is available as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Lulu.com &ndash; go to the Stor&iuml;au&rsquo;r Henllys Fawr page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Following in Edward Thomas&#x27; cycle tracks</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2014-06-11T18:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/7b2d1d6ce88deafae4af5f50b5975442-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/7b2d1d6ce88deafae4af5f50b5975442-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The air fell like a blessing on him, promising a garlanded ride back to London; I can barely stand the wind&rsquo;s tyranny


...Wales was just a &lsquo;blueness&rsquo; through a &lsquo;low-arched rainbow&rsquo;, beyond the Mendips, Steep Holm and Flat Holm &lsquo;resting like clouds&rsquo; on the sea; like them, it was unreal, and yet for Thomas, &lsquo;much more&rsquo;, where perhaps the quest really might end&hellip; or where it might begin.


...But all I saw was more words; all I noticed, thick in the stony stillness was the smell of polish, as if the parish had recently buffed each pew; and the trapped hours eddying restlessly at the affront of my noise. 

...But, later I do find Thomas, and I find him where he never was: at the crack of midnight &ndash; beautifully and aptly &ndash; I see the sky clear, the moon set light to the frozen fields, as the wind howls, and howls again, as I stalk the sitting room of our cottage on Exmoor. 

...This piece records her diary as she cycled in the tracks of Edward Thomas riding from London to Somerset, a journey captured in his journal, In Pursuit of Spring, published in 1914 and reissued as an ebook by the Pwllheli-based press, Cromen, www.cromen.co.uk/en/books/spring.html


In Pursuit of Spring is available as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to In Pursuit of Spring page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Teulu Bach Nantoer on World Book Day</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>books</category><dc:date>2014-03-06T12:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/b91bc09ee8f2add4d6531ff8968e8aef-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/b91bc09ee8f2add4d6531ff8968e8aef-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Television programme S4C, 9.30pm, 15 September 2013 - repeated 6 March 2014 to celebrate World Book Day.


2013 marked a century since Elizabeth Mary Jones's classic children's novel Teulu Bach Nantoer was first published, and in a special documentary this week, S4C will delve into the story behind the novel.


The S4C documentary Teulu Bach Nantoer on Thursday, 6 March, will examine the novel and the author in discussions with literary experts.   We'll also hear the memories of people who remember reading the novel as children, and compare their thoughts with the opinions of children today after they read Teulu Bach Nantoer for the first time.


Born within two miles of the author, presenter Beti George guides us through the history behind this iconic novel deemed one of the most popular books in the Welsh language having sold around 30,000 copies.


Teulu Bach Nantoer is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop &ndash; go to the Teulu Bach Nantoer page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Neil Gaiman on an &#x27;unforgettable&#x27; book</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><dc:subject>cromen</dc:subject><dc:date>2014-03-05T20:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e32fce7596153494ff40ea0ff29fb207-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e32fce7596153494ff40ea0ff29fb207-27.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Neil Gaiman, a prolific and popular author, admits that he stole a chart from a school library book when he was 10 years old.   He didn&rsquo;t quite understand what the chart was, but it was that chart which persuaded him to read the book it belonged to, The Road to En-dor.


The Road to En-dor is an autobiography of life in a prisoner-of-war-camp at Yozgad, Turkey 1917, and the plan hatched by a Welshman and an Australian to escape.   EH Jones and CW Hill intended to hoodwink the camp Commandant by Ouija board &rsquo;spooking&rsquo; &ndash; but this plan wasn&rsquo;t going well.   They were repatriated a fortnight before the armistice with Turkey was signed, by feigning insanity.


It&rsquo;s a complicated and extraordinary tale and Neil Gaiman ends his article with &ndash; &ldquo;And you can wonder, as I wonder now, as I wondered when I was 10, whether what Hill and Jones went through was worth it &ndash; whether their madness actually kept them sane.&rdquo;
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>An interview with Golwg</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2014-01-27T18:50:46+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/a982dd00f2d26ede6f118cee6135fecc-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/a982dd00f2d26ede6f118cee6135fecc-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&ldquo;I&rsquo;m interested in books and I wanted to learn how to crete e-books,&rdquo; said Bedwyr ab lestyn who works as a designer for music publishing and recording company Sain. 

...After publishing Teulu Bach Nantoer by Moelona, Rhys Lewis by Daniel Owen and In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas, the latest Cromen book is the classic from 1703 Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg by Ellis Wynne.

&ldquo;If this book is a classic, it deserves to be available to as many readers as possible,&rdquo; said Bedwyr ab lestyn who has prepared it as an ePub for iPad, iPhone, Kobo, Nook, Sony Reader, Mac and PC, and as a mobi file for Kindles. 

...As well as Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg edited by D Silvan Evans, there are two English language translations contained in the e-book, The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Gwyneddon Davies and The Sleeping Bard by George Borrow. 

...According to Bedwyr ab Iestyn, it&rsquo;s an &lsquo;European&rsquo; book, although the language and descriptions are clearly from Ellis Wynne&rsquo;s rural background in Meirionnydd at the turn of the 18th century. 

&ldquo;The Pope and other important Europeans are characters in the Visions,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and it&rsquo;s obviously been influenced by the work of the Spaniard Francisco de Quevedo and to a lesser extent by the work of Dante.&rdquo; ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Three visions between two covers</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2013-12-05T23:02:48+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/95029353d7291be69e84c361c02161ac-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/95029353d7291be69e84c361c02161ac-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As well as Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg by Ellis Wynne &ndash; edited by D.   Silvan Evans &ndash; two English translations The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Gwyneddon Davies and The Sleeping Bard by George Borrow are combined in this volume.


Ellis Wynne is the usual way the author&rsquo;s name is spelled but the editors and translators of all three of these books spell his name differently, and differently to each other.


A Welsh-first version is available as Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg.


The Visions of the Sleeping Bard is available as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to The Visions of the Sleeping Bard page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Seamus Heaney responds to Edward Thomas</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><dc:subject>cromen</dc:subject><dc:date>2013-10-28T12:26:06+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9fe34c0a7bca141f2848f48eb5c97ece-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9fe34c0a7bca141f2848f48eb5c97ece-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The poem is a contribution to a memorial anthology marking the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war.   Heaney's In a Field is a response to Edward Thomas's As The Team's Head Brass which was written in 1916 shortly before he asked to be posted to the front &ndash; a decision that led to his death at Arras in 1917.


In a Field and As The Team's Head Brass can be read by clicking here.


Edward Thomas's famous travelogue, In Pursuit of Spring, and his only novel, The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans, are available as digital e-books in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as paperbacks on Amazon and Lulu.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Teulu Bach Nantoer is blogged&#x21;</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>books</category><category>web</category><dc:date>2013-10-28T12:26:05+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/1ea1bd42ba3928cc0315da79f938cd7a-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/1ea1bd42ba3928cc0315da79f938cd7a-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Blog Glyn Adda writes about Teulu Bach Nantoer &ndash; the e-book and its author.


&ldquo;Another reason for the enjoyment this time was the readability of the text, only slightly modernized which in no-way disrupts the story or its telling.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cartrefi Cymru on Radio Cymru</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2013-10-28T12:14:53+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e4f7fb4307a0a8a794f7b82a99f87968-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e4f7fb4307a0a8a794f7b82a99f87968-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The series followed Twm Morys, Maredudd ab Iestyn and John Dilwyn as they visited the homes OM Edwards described in his 1896 book, Cartrefi Cymru.   In the first programme they tried to search for Y Garreg Wen.


Cartrefi Cymru is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the Cartrefi Cymru page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Teulu Bach Nantoer</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>books</category><dc:date>2013-09-06T20:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9ebf6c014da88edbc15ef34d43f81b88-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9ebf6c014da88edbc15ef34d43f81b88-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Can be viewed on S4C&rsquo;s Clic for the next month - click here


This year marks a century since Elizabeth Mary Jones's classic children's novel Teulu Bach Nantoer was first published, and in a special documentary this week, S4C will delve into the story behind the novel.


The S4C documentary Teulu Bach Nantoer on Sunday, 15 September, will examine the novel and the author in discussions with literary experts.   We'll also hear the memories of people who remember reading the novel as children, and compare their thoughts with the opinions of children today after they read Teulu Bach Nantoer for the first time.


Born within two miles of the author, presenter Beti George guides us through the history behind this iconic novel deemed one of the most popular books in the Welsh language having sold around 30,000 copies.


Teulu Bach Nantoer is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop &ndash; go to the Teulu Bach Nantoer page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Good news from Amazon</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><category>cromen</category><category>web</category><dc:date>2013-09-01T19:56:01+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/6c0df00d1a79a3ff949ad32c75dcc042-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/6c0df00d1a79a3ff949ad32c75dcc042-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Welsh language is included on a list of newly accepted languages on the Kindle Digital Publishing site &ndash; and Cromen&rsquo;s Welsh language e-books are now available as Kindle Store downloads.   The full list of accepted languages is &ndash;


Afrikaans, Alsatian, Basque, Bokm&aring;l Norwegian, Breton, Catalan, Cornish, Corsican, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Frisian, English, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Manx, Northern Frisian, Norwegian, Nynorsk Norwegian, Portuguese, Proven&ccedil;al, Romansh, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>On-line book shopping</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>books</category><category>web</category><dc:date>2013-05-23T18:30:46+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e32c0b4254f9d03c4997032cf37e8f34-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/e32c0b4254f9d03c4997032cf37e8f34-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Cromen e-books are now available from many major on-line retailers such as iBookstore, KoboBooks and Hive.   Other book selling websites also sell  Cromen e-books e.g. indieebook, pickabook, bokus, tescoebooks.


The intention is to make it easy to buy the e-books worldwide and for use on as many e-readers as possible.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>In Pursuit of Spring</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2013-05-21T13:43:57+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/af8932dfa2bf3a9ec54a0954f7cd80d8-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/af8932dfa2bf3a9ec54a0954f7cd80d8-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A late spring and an early Easter&hellip; that was also the situation in 1913.   Edward Thomas was tired of waiting for spring to arrive in London so he cycled to meet it in the Quantock Hills.


...He turned from writing prose to poetry in 1914, encouraged by his  close friend Robert Frost.   Thomas enlisted in the army in 1915 and died on Easter Monday 1917 at the battle of Arras.


Matthew Hollis&rsquo;s biography, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas,  was published to great acclaim in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award.


In Pursuit of Spring is available as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to In Pursuit of Spring page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The first Welsh language novel?</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2013-03-27T16:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9aecbbe79d25d9a40db74d800d4d1d32-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/9aecbbe79d25d9a40db74d800d4d1d32-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&ldquo;Mae arnaf flys ysgrifennu hanes fy mywyd fy hun, nid i eraill, ond i mi fy hun; ac yn sicr nid i&rsquo;w argraffu, ond yn hytrach fel math o hunan-gymundeb.&rdquo;


Although Rhys Lewis wanted to write his life story as a form of self-connection, his autobiography is still read well over a hundred years after first written.


Rhys Lewis describes his home life with his mother and brother Bob, in school under the harsh hand of Robyn y Sowldiwr, as an apprentice at Abel Hughes's shop and as a student at Coleg y Bala before being appointed Minister of Capel Bethel.   The chapters in the company of Wil Bryan and Thomas Bartley are jovial and funny but there is deep sadness in the Lewis family background &ndash; the break-up between Robert and Mary, Bob's horrific accident at the coal-mine and Rhys's sickness after returning to Bethel.


...His novels were published one episode at a time in magazines and newspapers: Rhys Lewis in Y Drysorfa; Enoc Huws and Gwen Tomos in Y Cymro.


Rhys Lewis is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and will soon be available as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the Rhys Lewis page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Cromen on gwales.com</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>books</category><category>web</category><dc:date>2013-03-27T14:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/84482a7d154cdab1017cff5f74a8874b-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/84482a7d154cdab1017cff5f74a8874b-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Getting Welsh language books listed on Amazon is still a problem &ndash; they refuse to accapt Welsh language ebooks, even though they may be selling a paperback version of the exact same book.   Odder still is their position that &ldquo;we don't currently support publishing in this language&rdquo; even though some Welsh language books are on sale at the Kindle Store.


But there is also good news, Cromen ebooks are available on gwales.com &ndash; and more internet bookshops will be selling them in the near future.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Super-Tramp under the stars</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>review</category><dc:date>2013-03-27T12:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/a300351429a321badd257d1eee518361-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/a300351429a321badd257d1eee518361-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp has received favourable reviews on Amazon.co.uk &ndash; one 4 star review and one 5 star review, althuogh Tpaul calls W H Davies an &rsquo;English man&rsquo;.   In a 5 star review on Amazon.com the book is described as a &lsquo;Great history lesson&rsquo;.


Click here to read the reviews.


The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp  is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sailing too close to the wind?</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2012-07-16T16:07:50+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/7330fa7b8e6c655f3d4a112872428802-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/7330fa7b8e6c655f3d4a112872428802-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Mwntseison sits on the Welsh coast and in the final years of the nineteenth century Hugh Morgan is the village Mishteer and its major employer.   His sail-shed, which is managed by Ivor Parry and provides an income to most of the local households, is central to village life. 


The sail-shed is also the workplace of Gwladys Price &ndash; &ldquo;a girl of eighteen, slim, tall, and of unusual beauty&rdquo;.

Anne Adeliza Evans, 1836-1908, was born in Carmarthenshire.   She became Anne Adeliza Beynon Puddicombe after her marriage but wrote under the pseudonym Allen Raine.


Torn Sails  is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the Torn Sails page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Super-Tramp - the original</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2012-07-16T16:07:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/3442c890ef7f4bbbe599c133a6253471-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/3442c890ef7f4bbbe599c133a6253471-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp chronicles the years between 1893 and 1899 when W H Davies left his home-town, Newport, and spent time drifting, begging and taking on seasonal work in America and Canada.


George Bernard Shaw wrote the books preface and it opens with &ndash;


&ldquo;I hasten to protest at the outset that I have no personal knowledge of the incorrigible super-tramp who wrote this amazing book.&rdquo;


He was introduced to Davies&rsquo;s writing when he received a volume of poems through the post and was later instrumental in bringing his work to the attention of critics and publishers.   At the time he wasn&rsquo;t aware that Davies was a tramp living in a London dosshouse.


The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp  is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Morgans reviewed</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><category>review</category><dc:date>2012-07-01T16:07:49+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/63b86c2d11c9104fb05a97711740c819-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/63b86c2d11c9104fb05a97711740c819-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[&ldquo;The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans anticipates many of the anxieties that would go on to define the period known as Modernism.


Three years earlier, in 1910, Virginia Woolf declared that human character had changed, and that this was not a &lsquo;sudden and definite&rsquo; occurrence, but something nascent. ...  Language would be reordered to better reflect the discoveries being made in science, developments in technology and our subsequent experience of the world. 


...However, they are discernible in the commentary provided by Arthur Froxfield, the novel&rsquo;s main protagonist, and one of the many characters employed to embody aspects of the author&rsquo;s personality.   From his observations and remembrances it is clear that, like Hamlet, he is witness to a &lsquo;time out of joint&rsquo;.&rdquo;


The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Pethe - S4C - interview</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2012-03-26T22:00:00+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/96cde11c3999096db905d0826a1697a4-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/96cde11c3999096db905d0826a1697a4-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Pethe, S4C, broadcast 26 March 2012 - an item about e-books in general as well as discussing some examples and advantages of digital books.   Bedwyr ab Iestyn spoke about Cromen &ndash; the published books and it&rsquo;s setting-up.   Delyth Prys noted some particular problems with e-publishing in the Welsh language and Llion Jones spoke about the digital version of his poetry collection, Pethe achlysurol, which was created with the iBooks Author programme.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Happy-go-lucky family</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2012-03-15T11:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/c2e826954f915fb7948636e7c3aacb5a-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/c2e826954f915fb7948636e7c3aacb5a-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The Morgan family live at Abercorran House in Balham &ndash; they&rsquo;re friendly, welcoming, slightly eccentric and Welsh.   Arthur Froxfield becomes a frequent visitor and recounts the stories he heard there of swan maidens, the Castle of Leaves and the house of the days of the year


...He turned from writing prose to poetry in 1914, encouraged by his  close friend Robert Frost.   Thomas enlisted in the army in 1915 and died on Easter Monday 1917 at the battle of Arras.


Matthew Hollis&rsquo;s biography, Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas,  was published to great acclaim in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Award.


The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Super-Tramp in Wales</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2012-03-15T12:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/62460ed6a9e3d1044eddb3d319270361-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/62460ed6a9e3d1044eddb3d319270361-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[W H Davies was born in Newport in 1871, he&rsquo;s famous for his poem Leisure and for his The Autobiography of a Super Tramp which describes the time he spent in the USA and Canada.


In A Poet&rsquo;s Pilgrimage, published in 1918, he takes a walking tour from Carmarthen to London.   He describes his route and the people he meets on the road and at the roadside taverns &ndash; hawkers, tramps, beggars, rag-and-bone men, boxers, sailors.


Years earlier Davies fell and crushed his foot while attempting to jump a freight train in Ontario, his lower leg had to be amputated and since then he wore a wooden leg - he must have worn his wooden leg throughout the journey described in this book but it is never mentioned!


A Poet&rsquo;s Pilgrimage  is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the A Poet&rsquo;s Pilgrimage page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Review on Radio Cymru</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2012-02-19T14:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/6d707b77bcb0a7bf8c82ec3c1253ffb8-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/6d707b77bcb0a7bf8c82ec3c1253ffb8-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Dewi Llwyd ar fore Sul, Radio Cymru, broadcast 19 February 2012 &ndash; Catrin Beard spoke about her cultural week and gave Cromen a slap on the back!   She spoke of her enjoyment in re-discovering the work of Daniel Owen while reading Enoc Huws on her Kindle.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Stiwdio - Radio Cymru - interview</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2012-02-09T20:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/90770a0918b27121e9a3415f16a5f876-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/90770a0918b27121e9a3415f16a5f876-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Stiwdio, Radio Cymru, broadcast 9 February 2012 &ndash; an item about e-books in general as well as discussing some examples and advantages of digital books.   Bedwyr ab Iestyn spoke about Cromen &ndash; the published books and it&rsquo;s setting-up.   Llion Jones spoke about the digital version of his poetry collection, Pethe achlysurol, which was created with the iBooks Author programme.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Barn - magazine article</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2012-02-01T12:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/1472f4ff9c493b868df9ae56734bca51-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/1472f4ff9c493b868df9ae56734bca51-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The e-reader is easy and simple to understand but it&rsquo;s much more expensive than a mound of paper books &ndash; there is no smell of paper or ink, there are no tea stains, no sand or train tickets between the pages and I wouldn&rsquo;t recommend anyone to read it in the bath. 

...I think that any DRM system (Digital Rights Management) that locks e-books poses a risk of further problems arising &ndash; and you can be sure that if someone is determined to share an e-book that person will be able to find ways to do so.


...The truth is that an e-book can achieve things that are impossible for paper books &ndash; The Waste Land was published last year to great acclaim &ndash; as well as reading the poem yourself you can hear recordings of T S Eliot, Alec Guinness, Ted Hughes or Viggo Mortensen reading; there are notes that introduce and explain references in the poem and the impact Ezra Pound had as an editor; you can look at videos of writers such as Seamus Heaney and Jeanette Winterson presenting their impressions. 

...Publishers such as Visual Editions create completely original books &ndash; they focus on things that are impossible to achieve with a digital book and it is worth taking time to look at the video of the production of Tree of Codes.


...Unbound is a new initiative that uses the old system of collecting subscriptions to pay for publication &ndash; there are 5 different contribution levels: an e-book when you contribute at the lowest level but if you contribute at level 5 you receive hardback copies with your name listed in the back as well as a meal in the company of the author.


...The Welsh book market isn&rsquo;t large enough or rich enough to follow some of the models mentioned earlier but even though the advent of the e-book is going to upset many readers, sellers, printers and publishers we must recognize that it offers new opportunities for all those vested interests.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x22;Bards and singers and famous men of renown&#x22;</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2011-12-01T13:30:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/fc6e364385537ec8695e34a4eb79e341-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/fc6e364385537ec8695e34a4eb79e341-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Cartrefi Cymru was originally published in 1896 and although it contains references to the Great War and to railway stations that have been long abandoned it also contains an ageless sensibility.   By touring Wales and visiting the homes of bards and singers and famous men of renown Owen M Edwards presents a snapshot of the country and its landscape, its history and culture and of its people and society.


Owen M Edwards was a magazine editor, a Member of Parliament and a school inspector.   Through his numerous books he attempted to show that the people of Wales should feel proud of their history, their language and their culture.


Cartrefi Cymru is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the Cartrefi Cymru page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The most famous Welsh novel?</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>books</category><dc:date>2011-12-01T13:15:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/4b84b7a2b33716d3494d50354c29c5e4-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/4b84b7a2b33716d3494d50354c29c5e4-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A literal translation would be &ndash; "Enoc Huws was a son of the grove and hedge, but he wasn't born in Anglesey." 

...Enoc Huws comes face to face with Richard Trefor &ndash; one is a painfully shy but successful merchant and the other is a rich Captain, the master of a lead mine and father to Susi.   There's a death at the beginning of the novel and a marriage at its end but between those two events we meet a housekeeper, a policeman, a minister and a shoemaker as well as a few rogues and humbugs.


Daniel Owen, 1836-1895, was a tailor in Mold (Yr Wyddgrug) and described his society at the end of the 19th Century.   His novels were published one episode at a time in magazines and newspapers: Enoc Huws and Gwen Tomos in Y Cymro; Rhys Lewis in Y Drysorfa.


Enoc Huws is availabe as a digital e-book in epub and mobi formats through the Cromen shop and as a paperback book on Amazon and Lulu &ndash; go to the Enoc Huws page for further information.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Digital books from Wales</title><dc:creator>cromen@cromen.co.uk</dc:creator><category>cromen</category><dc:date>2011-12-01T13:00:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/f0ac16edb8039a03058b8b1b4a585d58-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cromen.co.uk/en/info/news_files/f0ac16edb8039a03058b8b1b4a585d58-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It isn't possible to sell Welsh language digital books on the Amazon Kindle Store at the moment and selling on Apple iTunes also presents difficulties.


Although the number of e-book titles published by Cromen is very small it is a definite intention to extend the number and range of titles in both Welsh and English.   These e-books will mostly be of public domain titles &ndash; copyright on literary works usually comes to an end 70 years after the author's death.


A paperback copy of each Cromen title will also be prepared &ndash; it's possible to order electronic books as well as paper books.]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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