Emyr Humphreys is one of the foremost Anglo-Welsh novelists in Wales. The author of 21 novels, one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award and another, The Toy Epic, now an A-Level set text. He is also the author of volumes of poetry, short stories and cultural criticism. He has also written a 'selected history' of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition. He was recently awarded the Arts Council of Wales Literature prize at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.

A novel of remarkable lyricismcreative and fresh.'

Emyr Humphreys is one of the foremost Anglo-Welsh novelists in Wales. The author of 21 novels, one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award and another, The Toy Epic, now an A-Level set text. He is also the author of volumes of poetry, short stories and cultural criticism. He has also written a 'selected history' of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition. He was recently awarded the Arts Council of Wales Literature prize at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.

A novel of remarkable lyricismcreative and fresh.'

Emyr Humphreys is one of the foremost Anglo-Welsh novelists in Wales. The author of 21 novels, one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award and another, The Toy Epic, now an A-Level set text. He is also the author of volumes of poetry, short stories and cultural criticism. He has also written a 'selected history' of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition. He was recently awarded the Arts Council of Wales Literature prize at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.

A novel of remarkable lyricismcreative and fresh.'