Links I found interesting for 30-01-2015
- Labour in Wales
Breakthrough not happening.
- Celebrate immigration because it drives growth
Why immigration is a boon, not a bane, for Britain.
January 30th, 2015
What is the best-known book set in Wales?
See note on methodology
I confess that I've looked at the answers to this question for a lot of European countries by now, preparing a number of these posts. There aren't many where the top book is as far ahead of the field - on both LibraryThing and Goodreads - as it is in this case. And there are even fewer cases where it's a book I simply hadn't heard of. But this is one of them. The most widely owned book by a long way (among both LibraryThing and Goodreads users) which is set in Wales is:
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Apparently it's a beautifully illustrated and spooky book for YA readers, published in 2011. It's also the most frequently tagged "Wales" by Goodreads users, and third on LibraryThing.
The two books most frequently tagged as "Wales" by LibraryThing users are:
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I am of course familiar with the first of these. The second is the opening novel of a historical fiction trilogy, which has clearly done well while passing me by.
Fourth place in LibraryThing tags, and second on Goodreads tags, is the one I would have immediately thought of:
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Bubbling under, ( Collapse ) - not all of which are entirely or exactly set in Wales.
Sorry, Dylan Thomas. You didn't quite make it to the top. (Nor did Torchwood.)
I confess that I've looked at the answers to this question for a lot of European countries by now, preparing a number of these posts. There aren't many where the top book is as far ahead of the field - on both LibraryThing and Goodreads - as it is in this case. And there are even fewer cases where it's a book I simply hadn't heard of. But this is one of them. The most widely owned book by a long way (among both LibraryThing and Goodreads users) which is set in Wales is:
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Apparently it's a beautifully illustrated and spooky book for YA readers, published in 2011. It's also the most frequently tagged "Wales" by Goodreads users, and third on LibraryThing.
The two books most frequently tagged as "Wales" by LibraryThing users are:
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I am of course familiar with the first of these. The second is the opening novel of a historical fiction trilogy, which has clearly done well while passing me by.
Fourth place in LibraryThing tags, and second on Goodreads tags, is the one I would have immediately thought of:
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Bubbling under, ( Collapse ) - not all of which are entirely or exactly set in Wales.
Sorry, Dylan Thomas. You didn't quite make it to the top. (Nor did Torchwood.)
