Kowsva Sale next weekend

26th August 2024 by melanie in Kowsva Shop

There will be a three day sale at Kowsva, 11-3, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 1st September after which Kowsva at Heartlands will be closed. But you will still see us out and about at stalls and the Online Shop will continue as always.

Sale Table

Fill a Kowethas carrier bag for £2

New Books:

  • Henhwedhlow (8 Cornish Legends retold with humour, in English and Cornish)
  • Gwariow Mus (7 little pantomimes for reading or performing in Cornish)
  • Tri yw Niver Hudel / An Kelegel (a bilingual teenage adventure)
  • A B Ch Kernewek (an alphabet book in Cornish)
  • Karolyow Nadelik (sorry, I know it is only August)
  • Pol Hodge poetry books Mowth on like Dolcoath Shaft and ‘Otter Than a Bitch Mackerel
  • Kernow and the Cornish (many little portraits of Cornish places in days gone by)
  • Cornwall Marches On (commemorating the 500th anniversary of 1497)

And books for children:

  • 3 Topsy and Tim books (in Cornish)
  • Spot ha y lyver bras
  • 3 colouring books (Orvil an Morvil & Ydhyn)
  • Porth books (Lester, Dyskadores, Goolan, Goraswonnek, Kanker, Kador & more)
  • Planet Kernow (with DVD)
  • Kanow Flehes (with CD)
  • Konin ha Pryv (DVD)

Plus second hand books, cards, badges, pens, T-shirts, CDs and DVDs, lots of craft materials and some board games.

20th Century Revival book box

Many rare and unavailable booklets from the 20th Century revival, some in Unified, some in Kemmyn, including:

  • Cornish translations eg An Mabinogyon by ASD Smith (Caradar) and EGR Hooper (Talek) and Enys Tresor by Rod Lyon
  • Fiction in Unified eg Kemysk Kernewek by EGR Hooper (Talek), Whethlow pymp mynysen by Melville Vennetto, Whethlow tus hovel by Dorothy Richards
  • Fiction in Kemmyn eg Ynys Ankow & Jori by Michael Palmer, Skol rag Boekkas Gwynn, Hwedhlow Hwoer Tamsin by Jowann Richards, An Gwels Nownek ha hwedhlow erell by Peter Tremayne and many more
  • Extracts from the Cornish texts (Unified) by R Morton Nance and ASD Smith (1 complete set 1-7 and various others)
  • Gilbert Doble’s Cornish Saints series, 9 different saints
  • Various Lyver Lavarow (from 1975 onwards)
  • Cornish Dictionary Supplements (Unified).

These have been priced according to availability and condition, from £1 to £15.

This book box will also be on the Kowethas stall at the Gorsedh in Callington.

Half Price and Kesva books

There will be a half price book table, including books in English.

All the Kesva books and many other Cornish Language books will still be available at their usual prices.

Cakey Tea

There will be cakey tea on Saturday and Sunday. See you there!