Bare Nell [antikvár]

Bare Nell Leslie Thomas was born in South Wales ín 1931 and, when his parents died, he and his younger brother were brought up in an orphanage. His first book, This Time Next Week, is the autobiography of a happy orphan. At sixteen he became a reporter on a weekiy newspaper in Essex and then did his National Service in Maiaya during. the Communist bandit war. The Virgin So/diers telis of these days; it was an immediate bestseller and has been made into a film with Lynn Redgrave and Hywel Bennett. Returning to civilian life, Leslie Thomas joined the staff of the Evening News, becoming a top feature writer and travelling a great deal. His second növel, Orangé Wednesday, was published in 1967. For nine months during 1967 he travelled around ten islands off the coast of Britain, the result of which was a lyrical travelogue. Somé LovelyIslands, from which the BBC did a television series. He has continued to travel a great deal and has alsó written several television plays. He is a director of a London publishing house. His hobbies include golf, antiques and Queen's Park Rangers Football Club. His other books include Come to the War, His Lordship. Arthur McCann and AH His Women, The Man With the Power, Onward Virgin So/diers, Stand Up Virgin So/diers, Tropic offíuis/ip, and Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective - all of them published in Pan.