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JOHN, BRIAN

Publisher Email: greencroft4@mac.com
Publisher Website: http://www.books-wales.co.uk/

Brian John was born in Carmarthen in 1940 and brought up in Pembrokeshire. He is married and has two grown up sons and two grandsons. He studied at Haverfordwest Grammar School and at Jesus College Oxford, where he read Geography and obtained his D Phil degree for a pioneering study of the Ice Age in Pembrokeshire. He then worked as a field scientist in Antarctica and spent eleven years as a geography Lecturer in Durham University. He has travelled widely in the Arctic, Antarctic and Scandinavia. In 1977 he and his family moved to a smallholding near Newport in Pembrokeshire, and for the last 30 years he has made his living as a writer and publisher. He is also actively involved in a number of environmental and community organisations.

He has published hundreds of articles and about 60 books, and among his publishers are Collins, Pan, Orbis, Aurum Press, HMSO, Longman, David and Charles, Wiley and Edward Arnold. His published output includes university texts, walking guides, coffee talbe glossies and books of popular science. Many of his titles have been published by Greencroft Books, and have covered topics of particular West Wales readers - for example tourist guides, books of local jokes, and a series of books on local folklore and traditions. He is currently working on a series of novels (The Angel Mountain Saga) set in his own home area and focussing on the life and times of the Mistress of Plas Ingli, 1778 -1855. The series has received wide acclaim for its narrative skill, its strong sense of place and its historical authenticity. The English-language rights in the series have been bought by Transworld.

Brian is also in great demand for talks and discussions on creative writing and small-scale publishing. You can contact Brian through his publishers, Greencroft Books on: 01239 820 470.

Selected Publications:
The Best Cardi Jokes (Greencroft Books, 1995)
Pembrokeshire Wizards and Witches (Greencroft Books, 2001)
On Angel Mountain (Greencroft Books, 2001; Corgi 2006)
House of Angels (Greencroft Books, 2002; Corgi 2006)
Dark Angel (Greencroft Books, 2003)
Rebecca and the Angels (Greencroft Books, 2004)
Flying with Angels (Greencroft Books, 2005)
Martha Morgan’s Little World (Greencroft Books, 2006)
Guardian Angel (Greencroft Books, 2007)
Pembrokeshire Coast Path (National Trail Guides) (Aurum Press, 2008)

Contributed to:
The Best Pembrokeshire Jokes (editor) (Greencroft Books, 2000)



Martha Morgan’s Little World (Greencroft Books, 2006)

This book contains a fascinating insight into a unique and  intense relationship between an author, his Mistress and his landscape. Author Brian John provides the thousands of fans of the Angel Mountain Saga with all the information they need to get the greatest possible enjoyment from the five novels. This is the essential companion, including a loving portrait of the heroine, Mistress Martha Morgan, and of the locality in which the stories are set. There are also chapters on other favourite  characters, traditions and superstitions, symbols, the social background, and great issues of the day. The author also reveals some of his own secrets; where the stories came from, how he works, and how he welds together fact and fiction.

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