List Of Writers

JAMES, SIAN

Sansome Cottage, Ilmington, Warwickshire CV36 4LJ
Tel: (01608) 682258

Born in South Cardiganshire and educated at University College of Wales Aberystwyth. Sian has written many novels since 1975, four of them winning literary prizes. One book of short stories, Not Singing Exactly (Honno, 1996) won the Wales Book of the Year Award in 1997. Sian has also written The Sky over Wales (Honno, 1997), an account of a thirties childhood, and several short stories and plays for radio. She has taught creative writing on the MA course at the University of Glamorgan. In July 2001, Sian received a fellowship from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and in July 2002, a doctorate from the University of Glamorgan.

Selected Publications:
A Bell Rings
One Afternoon (P. Davies, 1975)
Yesterday (Collins, 1978)
A Small Country (Collins, 1979)
Another Beginning (Collins, 1980)
Dragons and Roses (Duckworth, 1983)
Dangerous Time (Century, 1984)
Not into Temptation (St. Martin’s Press, 1984)
Storm at Arberth (Seren, 1994)
Love and War (Piatkus, 1994)
Not Singing Exactly (Honno, 1996)
Two Loves (Piatkus, 1997)
The Sky Over Wales (Honno, 1997)
Summer Storm (Piatkus, 1998)
Second Chance (Piatkus, 2000)
Outside Paradise (Parthian, 2003)
Summer Shadows (Honno, 2004)

Contributed to:
Love from Wales (co–editor) (Seren, 1991)
The Awakening by Kate Roberts (translator) (Seren, 2006)



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