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Byron Rogers' Wales is not the stereotypical nation of rugby heroes,isteddfods and coal mining. His travels take him to an altogether strangernd more magical country. He pieces together the story of Kaiser Wilhelm'sojourn in a Welsh spa town before the Great War, and tours the Welsh waxworkuseum largely populated with effigies of Prince Philip discarded by Madameussaud's. He also tells the true story of how a project to ensure theurvival of the Welsh language came to involve the translation ofornographic novels, how Kurt Cobain proposed to Courtney Love in a nightclubn Newport, and above all how the Holy Grail came to be in the safe keepingf the manager of Lloyd's Bank in Aberystwyth. Byron Rogers' collections ofravel pieces have become reliable sales and critical success, attractingcclaim from Miles Kington to Jeremy Paxman, and each volume reprintingeveral times. The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail - a Waterstone's 'Best ofelsh' promotion choice in hardback in early
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