Harry Thomas’ popular column “Memory Lane” has appeared in the Rhyl & Prestatyn Visitor newspaper for some time now and this is the first collection of those stories put into book form. Given the space this book affords, Harry’s stories come to life and the accompanying photos and postcards serve to preserve our rich local history. The Queen’s Ballroom, The Floral Hall, The Scala Cinema, Tower Beach Holiday Camp - all these fondly remembered landmarks are detailed here....

Now in its fourth year, this latest Volume in the popular  Memory Lane series, brings you more old photos &  postcards along with stories from the locality. Harry Thomas’s popularity shows no signs of waning as his newspaper column in the Rhyl & Prestatyn Visitor is attracting more and more readers every month. Collected here are the stories from his 2006 newspaper column afforded more space and better reproduction of photos than is possible in newsprint. ...

This is the third year’s compilation of Harry’s popular newspaper column given more space for the text & photos than that permitted in the paper. Harry’s collection of local photos & postcards is matched only by his knowledge of the characters and places depicted in them.Printed in this book are rare photos & postcards as well as the stories behind local businesses known to us all including the Crosville Motor Company & William Roberts.Accounts of local landmarks including ...

Harry Thomas’ Memory Lane Column in the Rhyl & Prestatyn Visitor proved so popular that in November 2003 we published the first book, Memory Lane Vol I. That book in turn proved just as popular as the column.So here we are, a year later, launching Harry’s latest articles from the paper. His vast local knowledge and collection of photographs, as well as his ability to bring history to life is unparalleled.Accounts of Rhyl’s Coliseum, Rhuddlan’s Foundry, Prestatyn’s Savoy Caf...

When rail travel boomed during the early 1900s, it opened the gateway to North Wales for the bucket and spade brigade, showing them that 'happy times were here at last' on their visit to Prestatyn. Picture the scene in those uncluttered years for these early visitors to the town, refreshing, embracing sea air, clean lengthy sands, seaside Pierrots and a stroll up the town's popular hillside to experience the jaw-dropping panoramic view of Prestatyn, Rhyl, the Irish Sea and beyond. The vast...

Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American LiteratureSissy!: The Effeminate Paradox in Postwar US Literature and Culture is a fascinating work of cultural criticism that focuses on the ways men and boys deemed to be feminine have been—and continue to be—condemned for their personalities and behavior. Critic Harry Thomas Jr. does not dismiss this approach, but rather identifies it as merely one side of a coin. On the other side, he ass...

Originally published in 1950, the long out-of-print novel The Bitterweed Path was rediscovered in 1996 with the support of John Howard’s critical introduction. In the years since, new generations have witnessed its subtle yet daring contribution to Southern gay literature. This 75th anniversary edition includes a new foreword by John Howard and a new afterword by Harry Thomas Jr. that provide fresh insight into the workings of race, class, and queerness in this enduring novel....

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociability of Greg Clingham, taking as its theme textual and social group formations. Here, Philip Smallwood examines the “mirrored minds” of Johnson and Shakespeare, while David Hopkins parses intersec...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFeed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter.**FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families.To find him, Graham has to understand him. To understand him, Graham has only one place left to go: the m...

INCLUDES ALL FOUR HANNIBAL LECTER EBOOKSRed Dragon - The thriller that launched Hannibal Lecter's legacy of evil.The Silence of the Lambs - FBI trainee Clarice Starling has an elusive serial killer to hunt. Only one man can help.Hannibal - It has been seven years since Dr Hannibal Lecter has been on the run. Seven years since his last meeting with Clarice Starling. Seven y...

He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful an...

THE ICONIC CULT CLASSIC - THE THRILLER SERIES THAT CREATED DR HANNIBAL LECTERThe chilling first book in the bestselling psychological crime thriller series behind the Oscar Award-winning film, The Silence of the Lambs.‘The best popular novel published since The Godfather’ Stephen KingWill Graham was a brilliant profiler of criminals for the FBI - until he suffered terrible injuries in the process of capturi...