About the Author

In Stead Jones's own words in 1964: "Army signals took me to France on D-Day, an experience which seems more alarming now than it did then, and to the Far East. Promotion during these years - from Private to Corporal - came rapidly. After demobilisation, I became a student once more, and now find myself at forty a lecturer in Liberal Studies in a Lancashire Technical College. I like reading, listening to music, talking Welsh and playing golf badly."

Reviews

"Fluent first novel." --Times Literary Supplement

"Mr. Jones has a talent for swift vivid portraiture, and he writes vigorous dialogue." --New Yorker

"Remarkable indeed. Gladstone is quite beautifully described and presented and everywhere there is evidence of the quality of the author's mind." --Times