Goronwy Rees

“Within the limited length of the Writers of Wales series, John Harris’s biography makes astute use of all the possibilities of Rees’s life to take the reader on an absorbing and impressively erudite journey through the world of a character who turns out to be too variously talented for his own good.” –Times Literary Supplement

“This is the first substantial, objective study of Rees’s fascinating life and was assisted by the unstinting co-operation and reminiscences of his only daughter, Jenny Rees.
In a worthy addition to the renowned Writers of Wales series published by the University of Wales Press over several decades, Dr Harris has provided us with a rigorously researched, lucidly written and well-illustrated tome which examines the extraordinary career of the Oxford fellow, intellectual and top-ranking journalist, employed by the Manchester Guardian and the Spectator, who became principal in the sleepy university seaside town in the 1950s and was dramatically forced to resign following startling revelations about his friendship with Guy Burgess.” –gwales.com