The Journey is Home - Notes from a Life on the Edge — Notes from a Life on the Edge

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Hunangofiant clir a gafaelgar John Sam Jones am fyw bywyd ar y ffin, rhwng gwirionedd a chelwydd, rhwng gwrthodiad a derbyniad. O'i blentyndod ar arfordir Cymru i gyfnod cythryblus yn fyfyriwr is-raddedig ym mhrifysgol Aberystwyth, aeth ymlaen i ennill ysgoloriaeth yng Ngholeg Berkley yn San Francisco wrth i haint AIDS ddechrau gafael yn y gymdeithas.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It is a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy. From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period studying at Aberystwyth, to a scholarship at Berkley in California as the AIDS epidemic began to take hold before returning to Liverpool and north Wales.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

John Sam Jones’ life began on the coast of Wales, where he then became an undergraduate in Aberystwyth. After a scholarship at Berkley, San Francisco, he moved back to the UK to work in chaplaincy, education and sexual health during the AIDS epidemic. In 2001 he became the first co-chair of the LGB Forum Cymru (now known as Stonewall Cymru), set up to advise the Welsh Government on LGB issues. He also ran a guesthouse with his husband in Barmouth for many years, where he eventually became mayor. After the European Union Referendum, John moved to Germany. He now lives in semi-retirement with his husband and two Welsh Collies in a small German village next to the Dutch border. As well as his short fiction, he also has two novels published: With Angels and Furies and Crawling Through Thorns .

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

“The Journey is Home is elegantly woven together, enormously readable and engaging... there is great value in this book. I found much tranquillity, amusement and love in its pages.” – Nation. Cymru “...an incredibly important insight into the lives of individuals who had to inhabit the far less hospitable and more openly homophobic world of the recent past.” – The Welsh Agenda