SIR,
Monmouthshire Curiosities by Mike Hall is a guide to 100 remarkable sights that celebrate the more curious side of Monmouthshire's past.
For immediate release at £12.99, this paperback original is an insight into the history behind some of the most interesting sights and is a guide to exploring some of the more remote parts of the county, inspiring readers to make curious discoveries of their own.
Mike Hall condenses the area's long and fascinating history into a collection of memorable curiosities that are still to be seen today. Visitors, and even residents, frequently walk by some of these age-old fragments of the past without fully realising just what they are, or how they relate to Monmouthshire's history.
The book features the largest lump of coal in the world, the churches which still bear the marks of the great tsunami flood of 1607, and the grave of a Rorke's Drift VC winner.
Kerry Green
(The History Press)