Jones, R.W.

R.W. Jones's other novels include Saving Grace, Cop-Out, The Green Reapers and Seeds in the Wind.

Jones, Rhodri

Rhodri Jones grew up speaking Welsh, English and German. For the past two decades he has travelled widely in Central America, Europe, Africa and the Far East, building up an astounding photographic portfolio with images ranging from the mountains of Albania to the cities and deserts of China.

Jones, Robert

Robert Jones has been a keen walker all his life. He was editor of Walking Wales magazine and has written guides for the most popular mountains in Wales, the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. A landscape photographer, a wide selection of his images can be seen at www.gwlad.co.uk.

Kendall, Tim

Tim Kendall is a lecturer in English at the University of Bristol and an authority on the poetry of Ireland. The editor of the literary and critical magazine Thumbscrew, his study of Sylvia Plath is published in 2001 by Faber

Kennedy, David

David Kennedy was born in Leicester in 1959 and currently lives in Sheffield where he researched a doctorate on ideas of community in the work of Douglas Dunn, Tony Harrison and Seamus Heaney. He was co-editor of The New Poetry (Bloodaxe, 1993) and his poems, essays and reviews have been published widely in magazines in the UK and abroad. His first collection of poetry, The Elephant's Typewriter, was published by Scratch in 1996.

Kongoli, Fatos

Lawton, Jocelyne

Jocelyne Lawton is a ’laboratory technician turned naturalist’ and an enthusiastic self-taught photographer.  She is married to a countryside warden and lives in the Bryngarw Country Park near Bridgend, where many of the photographs in this book were taken.  She has two cats, Benedic and Beatrice, who often accompany her on her photographic trips.  ’Flowers and Fables’ is her first book.

Lewis, Alun

Alun Lewis, (1915-1944), the remarkable poet and short story writer, died, aged twenty-eight, in Burma in the Second World War. Some critics see him as the last of the great Romantic poets, a twentieth century Keats. Others describe his poetry as the path from pre-war Yeats and Auden to post-war poets like Hughes and Gunn. In Wales there are those who think his greater versatility and finer intelligence place him above his contemporaries Dylan Thomas and R.S. Thomas. Born and brought up near Aberdare in south Wales, Lewis read history at Aberystwyth and Manchester. After a brief period teaching and despite pacifist inclinations, he enlisted in the Royal Engineers. He later joined the South Wales Borderers and was posted to India. Becoming a soldier had a stimulating effect on Lewis's writing: Raiders' Dawn, a collection of forty-seven poems, appeared in 1942 and early in 1943, The Last Inspection, a book of short stories, was published, both to considerable critical acclaim. Lewis died in an accident on active service in Burma in 1944. His second volume of poems, Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, was published in 1945 and his Indian short stories, together with some letters, in In The Green Tree (1948).

Lewis, Gweno

Gweno Lewis was brought up in Aberystwyth in Wales and, like her husband, was educated at the town's University College. In 1938 she joined Mountain Ash Grammar School as a Deputy Headmistress in 1974 when she returned to the family home in Aberystwyth. She met Alun Lewis in 1939. Gweno Lewis has previously edited Letters from India (1946) with Professor Gwyn Jones; In the Green Tree (1948); and Selected Poems of Alun Lewis (1981) with Jeremy Hooker.

Lewis, Margaret

Margaret Lewis was born in Northern Ireland and educated at the Universities of Alberta, Leeds and Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a writer and a contributor to public relations at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In addition to her short stories broadcast on the radio and published in anthologies, she is the author of the biography Ngaio Marsh: A Life (Chatto, 1991).