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Tortipede

I highly recommend the () satirical murder-mystery Rhwng y Silffoedd by Andrew Green. It's the 1st novel I've read to have a hilarious, but accurate , that actually had me snorting & chortling aloud - from its entries for the late Vice-Chancellor ("an inhabitant of Hades for most of the book, passim") & Alfred Russel Wallace (turning in his grave 30, 34), to that for "beard: sign of mental inadequacy 101; of melancholia 213; of metropolitan sophistication 110; Karl Marx 76."

Photo of the first page of a Welsh-language book index, including the entry for "beard" alongside "Jeremy Bentham" (dodgy philosopher) and "brutalism, architectural".
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Sheepnik

@tortipede Andrew Green, as in former Librarian of the National Library of Wales? I didn't realise he'd turned to fiction. I've always enjoyed his blog posts, so I'll have to check it out. Diolch-

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Paula Clarke Bain

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Mynegai hyfryd! What a lovely index.

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