Authors
Best, Sian
Sian Best was a leading force in the anti-Barrage campaign. She currently works as a librarian in Cardiff.
Bevan, Derek
Derek Bevan became one of the world's best - and best known - rugby union referees. He retired at the end of the 1999-2000 season, aged fifty, after 32 years as the man in the middle. During that long career he refereed in all four World Cups (a record unlikely to be equalled) including the 1991 World Cup Final; almost 50 internationals, 4 Welsh Cup Finals, World Cup Sevens, Hong Kong Sevens, Dubai Sevens and the Students World Cup Final.
Bidgood, Ruth
Ruth Bidgood was born in Blaendulais, near Neath, educated at Oxford, and worked as a coder in Alexandria, Egypt in World War Two. She has lived in mid-Wales since the mid-sixties. The author of several prize-winning volumes of poetry, she also writes local history.
Bingham, Kate
Kate Bingham lives in London. Educated at Oxford, she is the author of two novels, Mummy's Legs and Slipstream. In 1996 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors.
Boardman-Jacobs, Sam
Sam Boardman-Jacobs is Reader in Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan where he jointly runs the MA in Scriptwriting.
Briggs, John
John Briggs was born in 1947 in St Paul, Minnesota. He came to Wales in the 1960s to study at Atlantic College in the Vale of Glamorgan, where an increasing passion for photography resulted in his first street images of Cardiff. He gained a degree in French at the University of Minnesota, also working as a part-time reporter. In 1947, returning to Wales to do teacher traning at University College, Cardiff, he began systematically photographing the city's disppearing docklands. This book is published to coincide with an exhibition at St David's Hall, Cardiff.
Brito, Leonora
Leonora Brito has lived in Cardiff all her life, where she took a degree in Law and History at the University. Dat's Life is her first book, collecting stories which won her the Rhys Davies Prize, a placed prize in the Stand International Story Competition and which have been broadcast on Radio 4.
Brown, Stewart
Stewart Brown has taught in Jamaica, Nigeria and Britain. He is now a lecturer at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the editor of several anthologies of Caribbean literature, including critical work on Derek Walcott and E.K. Brathwaite.
Bush, Duncan
Duncan Bush was born and brought up in Cardiff, Wales. He was educated at Warwick, Duke and Oxford Universities. His collection Masks (1994) was a PBS Recommendation and Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year. He has also published novels, Glass Shot (Secker) and The Genre of Silence as well as scripts for stage and screen. He currently divides his time between Wales and Europe.
