Gary Ley (born 1956) is a Welsh novelist and sculpture technician. He is based in

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on the

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, near Swansea.

Biography

Born in Swansea in 1956, Gary Ley studied geography at university. He had a career as a teacher and lecturer, before being involved in the setting up of a sculpture business in 1988. His first novel, ''Taking Ronnie to the Pictures'', was published in 1998, and is notable for having been a runner-up in Seren’s First Novel Competition. It deals with the subject of child abuse, employing flashbacks and having a narrative that moves between Texas and Wales. In 2002 Ley published his second novel, ''Strange Tunnels Disappearing''. It is set in the 1980s against the backdrop of the

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; its main characters are a British aircraft salesman and a Peruvian politics lecturer associated with the

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. The imagined persona of the 19th-century railway builder,

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, features prominently in the novel. Ley has also had poems published in periodicals.

Bibliography

* * * Gary has also been a prolific poet over the years, and had some of his poetry published in Welsh periodicals.

References

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