Richard King
Photo: Elijah KingLongtime Caught by the River contributor Richard King’s essential new book, Brittle With Relics, is a landmark history of Wales between the early ’60s and late ’90s.
He returns to the Gladstone Estate to talk about the roots of modern Wales with writer and editor Darren Chetty.
Richard’s other work includes Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade, The Times and Uncut Book of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (the Sunday Times Music Book of the Year) and The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade, Mojo and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize), all published by Faber & Faber.
He was born into a bilingual family in South Wales and for the last twenty years has lived in the rural county of Powys, Mid Wales.
