The Man in the Middle

Derek Bevan

A referee can’t make a bad game good, but he can make a good game bad. Based on this assumption, Derek Bevan became one of the world’s best - and best known - rugby union referees....

Margiad Evans

Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan


Novelist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories, Margiad Evans (1909-1959) was one of the most remarkable women writers of the mid-twentieth century. Having published three novels, two autobiographical works and two volumes of poetry during her life, her relatively slim output belies considerable achievement in the face of intermittent poverty and the illness of her later years ...

Mary Webb

Gladys Mary Coles


Novelist, poet and mystic, Mary Webb (1881-1927) is an author undergoing revival and revaluation. Her most famous novel, Precious Bane, won the Prix Femina of 1924 and was recently televised. While her work was admired by Rebecca West, John Buchan, de la Mare and others during her lifetime, popular succes came only after her death ...

Mervyn’s Lot

Mervyn Matthews

Mervyn Matthews’ childhood in the thirties, forties and fifties was remarkable even by the standards of the time. Bombed out of his house during the Swansea blitz, he went to live with his maternal grandmother in the Hafod area of Swansea ...

Mila and Mervuysa

Mervyn Matthews

The remarkable - and true - story of love opposed by political ideology. When translator Mervyn Matthews refused to be recruited by the KGB in the 1960s he found himself expelled from Russia and divided by the Iron Curtain from his Russian fiancee Mila Bibikova ...