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...

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...

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. We hope you’ll want to...

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’ 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. The B...

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...

An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter.A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking particular women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. ...

**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...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Is it as good as Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs? No . . . this one is better.”—Stephen King, The New York Times Book ReviewYou remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he’s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world.But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter’s w...

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 five interviews in this book were conducted by students in “The Art of Poetry,” a course that Harry Thomas taught for several years. The students’ depth of knowledge and keenness of insight into the poets’ work is an affirmation of American education. The poets respond to the students with a frankness and feeling of fraternity that mounts at times to a sort of communion.The poets take up a great range of matters in the interviews the nature of artistic creation, the varieties a...

**A resilient young woman must outwit a sadistic psychopath in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of The Silence of the Lambs."Delectable." —New York Times Book Review"A master still at the top of his strange and chilling form." —Wall Street Journal**Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneid...