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Book1 - The Grog Invasion: Chronicles of the Llandoddies™
Book - The Grog Invasion: Chronicles of the Llandoddies™
By: Griswallt ap Llechitwyt
Description: This is the first book of the series. The story, set in Mid Wales, takes place just before the First World War, before road building drove the Llandoddies to live on the island on the Llandrindod Lake. Llandoddies are little folk smaller than a mobile phone. When out on a fishing trip in their coracle, Big Dewi and Little Dewi, with their friend Essie, come upon a Grog war-party and discover the Grogs - evil half reptile, half gnome - intend to attack the Doddie village of Aberdod with the objective of running off with the Doddie cakes and the women who bake them. The humour ranges from slap-stick to Pythonesque, the pace fast and furious, with a wide range of characters.
Excerpts: "The raven then swept down beside a tall hedgerow and over a garden wall and then flew beneath a washing-line. As they shot past Dewi’s antennae caught a pair of Mrs Gruffydd-Pugh’s enormous knickers, and wrenching them off the clothes-line, they wrapped themselves round Dewi and his antennae. He could see nothing. They weaved round to the front garden where Mrs Gruffydd Pugh was tending her hollyhocks. She stood up just in time to see her Sunday best knickers fly past at speed."
"Leila threw Essie off and pulled out her sword to carve Dewi into little pieces as he dodged another blow from the club. Just as Leila was about to plunge it into Dewi, Essie jabbed her in the eye with a rolled-up copy of the Llandoddie Underground Railway map and Summer Timetable"
Relevant Links:
www.llandoddies.com
www.llandrindod.co.uk
Copyright Information:
text/pictures copyright www.llandrindod.co.uk 2003
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