Country Life

The power of the bigger picture

‘What might seem a catalogue of fragments leaps off the page, a collection of astonishing things’

ONE positive outcome of the past two years of lockdown has been an unusual outpouring of books, as people have turned enforced time at home to account. Among them is one very by Richard Suggett (with contributions by Anthony Parkinson and Jane Rutherfoord) is ostensibly a specialist production of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, with parallel texts throughout in Welsh and English.

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