Gary Ley Explained
| Gary Ley |
| Birth Place: | Swansea |
| Nationality: | Welsh |
| Occupation: | writer, sculpture technician |
| Known For: | Taking Ronnie to the Pictures, Strange Tunnels Disappearing |
Gary Ley (born 1956) is a Welsh novelist and sculpture technician.[1] He is based in Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, near Swansea.[2]
Biography
Born in Swansea in 1956, Gary Ley studied geography at university.
He had a career as a teacher and lecturer, before being involved in the setting up of a sculpture business in 1988.
His first novel, Taking Ronnie to the Pictures, was published in 1998, and is notable for having been a runner-up in Seren’s First Novel Competition.[3] It deals with the subject of child abuse, employing flashbacks and having a narrative that moves between Texas and Wales.[4] [5]
In 2002 Ley published his second novel, Strange Tunnels Disappearing. It is set in the 1980s against the backdrop of the internal conflict in Peru; its main characters are a British aircraft salesman and a Peruvian politics lecturer associated with the Shining Path. The imagined persona of the 19th-century railway builder, Henry Meiggs, features prominently in the novel.[6] [7]
Ley has also had poems published in periodicals.
Bibliography
- Book: Ley, Gary . Taking Ronnie to the Pictures . Seren . 1998-09-22 . Bridgend . 1-85411-193-0 .
- Book: Ley, Gary . Strange Tunnels Disappearing . Seren . 2002-04-18 . Bridgend . 1-85411-302-X .
- Gary has also been a prolific poet over the years, and had some of his poetry published in Welsh periodicals.
Notes and References
- Web site: About the Artists . 2008-10-21 . Sculpture Culture . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090403213352/http://www.sculptureculture.co.uk/about-the-artists/ . 2009-04-03 .
- Web site: Contact Us . 2008-11-26 . Sculpture Culture . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090404095935/http://www.sculptureculture.co.uk/contact-us/ . 2009-04-04 .
- Web site: Authors: Ley, Gary . 2008-04-23 . Seren . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071109211132/https://www.seren-books.com/authors/?author_id=1392 . 2007-11-09 .
- Web site: Taking Ronnie to the Pictures . 2008-04-23 . GWales.com.
- Web site: Taking Ronnie to the Pictures . 2008-04-23 . Seren . dead . https://archive.today/20070624082312/http://www.seren-books.com/product-search/p/1667/ . 2007-06-24 .
- Web site: Strange Tunnels Disappearing . 2008-04-23 . Amazon.co.uk.
- Web site: Strange Tunnels Disappearing. 2008-04-23. Seren.
