“We lived on the coast but only ever knew how to east fish fingers. We could warm up a few songs in Welsh but couldn’t order a cup of tea in the language. We were famed for our close community links but were to lock ourselves away indoors with the telly. Others had telephones, we shouted.”

Luggage From Elsewhere follows a groups of friends as they grow up and experiment with sex, drugs and political action in a society coming to terms with a loss of work and power. Against this background Thomas’ fictional family is drawn with warmth, insight and a biting humour. A striking and unusual debut novel.

“…a dazzling and devastating account of a bittersweet Old South Walian childhood and adolescence…”
Rachel Trezise

“Another Thomas is born; as dark as Gwyn, as playful as Dylan, as raw as Ed!”
Ian Rowlands

“Thomas writes with focus, every word is meted and considered, the detail rich and varied, the characters striking, yet knowingly believable…succinct, poetic and gutsy writing from this first-time author.”
Buzz

ISBN: 1902638 948

£9.99