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.^[1]

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

• Ley, Gary (22 September 1998). Taking Ronnie to the Pictures. Bridgend: Seren. ISBN 1-85411-193-0.
• Ley, Gary (18 April 2002). Strange Tunnels Disappearing. Bridgend: Seren. ISBN 1-85411-302-X.
• Gary has also been a prolific poet over the years, and had some of his poetry published in Welsh periodicals.

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