Gary Ley

Gary Ley is a Welsh novelist and sculpture technician. He is based in Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, 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 internal [conflict in Peru]; its main characters are a British aircraft salesman and a Peruvian politics lecturer associated with the Shining Path. The imagined persona of the 19th-century railway builder, Henry Meiggs, features prominently in the novel.
Ley has also had poems published in periodicals.