T. Llew Jones (1915–2009)
Author of Gipsy fires
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Works by T. Llew Jones
Llyfrau darllen newydd llyfr 1 2 copies
Llyfrau darllen newydd Llyfr 2 2 copies
Y Llyfr Difyr 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Jones, Thomas Llewelyn
- Birthdate
- 1915-10-11
- Date of death
- 2009-01-09
- Burial location
- Mynwent Capel y Wîg, Pontgarreg, Ceredigion
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Pentre-cwrt, Carmarthenshire
- Education
- Ysgol Gynradd Capel Graig
Ysgol Ramadeg Llandysul - Occupations
- bardd
childrens' author
school teacher
headmaster - Relationships
- Emyr Llewelyn (son)
Iolo Ceredig Jones (son) - Organizations
- Ysgol Gynradd Tre-groes
Ysgol Coed-y-bryn, Llandysul
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru (Chaired Bard, 1958 and 1959)
Dyfed Chess Association (founding member, life president, and editor of the newsletter, Y Ddraig)
Welsh Chess Union (founding member, 1970, and vice-president) - Awards and honors
- Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Glyn Ebwy (1958 ∙ Chair)
Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru Caernarfon (1959 ∙ Chair)
University of Wales in (Hon. MA ∙ 1977)
Mary Vaughan Jones Award (1991)
Eisteddfod Cymdeithas Ceredigion (2005 ∙ Chair) - Short biography
- Wicipedia (Welsh) : http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Llew_...
Wikipedia (English) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Llew_...
Autobiography : Fy mhobol i (2002)
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- Works
- 56
- Also by
- 13
- Members
- 131
- Popularity
- #154,467
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 71
- Languages
- 2
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Jones paints particular scenes and moments quite well, and gives interesting snapshots of character. Unfortunately, I felt like this didn’t follow through in the longer term, and the characterisation was a bit lacking overall. I also felt that the story lacks any particular focus, jumping around constantly between viewpoint characters without a strong sense of structure. Jones never establishes clearly which aspect of the story we’re supposed to care about: it flirts with adventure, straightforward historical novel, thriller, mystery and romance, but none of these dominates and the result is a bit nondescript.
On top of this, Jones doesn’t seem to have picked out a protagonist. The squire is the only sympathetic character, and he’s irrelevant between the first and last chapters. The exciseman is a potential hero (a touch of the ‘sheriff comes to clean up the town’), but he’s bad-tempered, hasty, and the story contrives to make him totally ineffectual. Adventure stories often root for the criminals, but the smugglers are consistently depicted as a violent and unpleasant bunch, who terrify other villagers into silence. Siôn Cwilt has a noble goal but his murky methods taint the whole business. Meanwhile, the amiable vicar is a disgrace to his cloth, cheerfully supporting a pack of brutal thugs, and even threatening a villager himself. The token heroine is hard to endorse because she doesn’t care that her brothers are murderous bullies who have the whole community in fear. However, it doesn’t really come across as a novel that’s deliberately neutral and noncommittal either – I get the feeling we’re supposed to be rooting for Siôn Cwilt, but there’s frankly very little reason to do so.… (more)