Hanbury Park promotional video

Well, I've been busy today making another video to promote my books.  This time its for my novel Hanbury Park.  I've taken all the photos, except one, myself and unfortunately, for the moment anyway, I don't have any other books to make videos for!  But, I am in the process of writing another one, its still in the research stages at the moment but hopefully I will get it finished soon.  In the meantime here is the link for the video and some of the photos.  Enjoy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBUZAs92qD0


A very cold winter morning in North Wales

Cwmbran Boating Lake

Blaenavon

 Cwmbran in winter

Tell Them of Us - Press Release

New book commemorates brave Torfaen ancestors

'Tell Them of Us' is a new book by author Carol Ann Lewis.

2014 will see events taking place around the world to commemorate the start of World War One.  'Tell Them of Us' is the story of seven men from Torfaen who left their families to fight in France.

Gripped by the patriotism that swept the land in 1914 in face of the German threat, along with millions of others, they signed up to fight.  They were mostly volunteers - miners, shopkeepers - ordinary people and with the minimum of training they were sent to the trenches of the Western Front.  Instead of being home by Christmas, the war dragged on for four long years and as a result they experienced horrors we can never imagine.  For many, their first experience of battle would be their last.

But from the carnage also stepped heroes - Richard Jones from Pontypool who fought with the South Wales Borderers at the Battle of Gheluvelt, where the battalion stood alone to face the German army and protect the village until reinforcements arrived.  Had the Germans got through, the French ports would have been next.  William Jones, also of Pontypool who tied a page of the Pontypool Free Press to his rifle and stepped out into no mans land on Christmas Day 1914 to try and instigate peace with the Germans and John Hancock of Abersychan who fought at the Somme and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery. 

'Tell Them of Us' is a history book of local interest on a subject that was shared by millions.

Carol Ann Lewis is the author of four local history books and is the secretary of Cwmbran Writers Group.  She can be contacted on 07722300002 or emailed at carolannlewis@ntlworld.com

Her books are available from www.amazon.co.uk  or as a download to Kindle.

New Book - Tell Them of Us

Its been quite a while since I last posted here, but I've been busy writing my new book.  I decided to put this book together to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One.  I had loads of information from doing family history research so thought,why not.  Its been a great little book to write and now with the war diaries being available online researching ancestors from the Great War has become easier, that's if you can decipher all the army abbreviations!!  The book contains stories of my ancestors experiences, most of them won military medals for bravery in the field, two died, one at the Battle of Gheluvelt, the world war one equivalent of Rorkes Drift  I shall now be out promoting this wherever I can:)

Tell Them of Us is available from www.amazon.co.uk  or as a download to Kindle.

New Book 'Victorian Pontypool'

This book has taken me months to research and write.  It is a compilation of old newspaper articles from papers long extinct and gives a glimpse in to life in Pontypool in Victorian times.  I decided to write it as many of my ancestors lived in Pontypool and surrounding villages.  My 3 x great grandfather, Thomas Lewis, was born in 1834.  He probably lived to see much of what my book includes.  Although only 5 at the time, he may have witnessed the night of the Chartist disturbance, the opening of the railway line and the very first steam engine to travel to Pontypool.  By the time of his marriage in the 1850's he would have lived through the Cholera outbreak, diphtheria outbreak and crippling poverty that the ordinary person lived through every day.  In the year 1890 he would have been 56 and if still around would have witnessed the Llanerch Colliery disaster, where, he may have lost friends and relatives.  But the book isn't just about my family, there are about 190 pages in the book, full of stories and characters, such as poor Mr Rowberry, who had a great trade driving  his carriages to Newport, until the coming of the trains, then he lost everything and was found one morning lying dead in George Street!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Victorian-Pontypool-carol-Ann-lewis/dp/1491296437/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379277609&sr=8-1&keywords=victorian+pontypool

My Next Project

For my next book project I am looking at old newspapers from the 19th century and picking out interesting ones from Cwmbran.  It's a long job, the research is taking far longer than the typing up of the manuscript.  There are hundreds of stories to choose from, ranging from the sad to the gruesome to the funny ones.  In the meantime I've been out in the outer net advertising my other books, interest is rising and that's always a good thing.  In the meantime I have donated a piece of art to a history project going on in Cwmbran.

This is my pictuer of Old Cwmbran around the 1900's.  I believe the dome thing in the centre was a toilet called 'St Pauls'  Gone now though.

Cwmbran - History and Mystery

The link to my book of Cwmbran ghost stories.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cwmbran-History-Carol-Ann-Lewis/dp/1490351191/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372923351&sr=1-1&keywords=cwmbran+history+and+mystery

Cwmbran History and Mystery available on Kindle

This is a small book Ive put together about hauntings in Cwmbran.  There were actually more than I thought and it's been good fun to write.  It is available now from Amazon.