Collection: Stead Jones

Thomas Evan Jones was born in 1922 and brought up in Pwllheli, north Wales. He attended University College Bangor, where his studies were halted by World War Two and five years in the British Army. He found himself in France on D-Day, and was later promoted from private to corporal and given a signal detachment in India and Burma. His first novel, Make Room for the Jester was published in 1964 in both the UK and the USA to much critical acclaim. It was followed in 1966 by The Ballad of Oliver Powell (published under the title The Man with the Talents in the USA), and in 1968 by his third and last novel, The Lost Boy. He published all his books under the name of Stead Jones. He died in 1985.