Emyr Humphreys

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2009
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Full Series List in Order

Land of the Living

Flesh and Blood (Apr-1999)
Salt of the Earth (Oct-1999)
An Absolute Hero (Mar-2000)
Bonds of Attachment (Mar-2001)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • A Toy Epic

  • Outside the House of Baal

    In this new edition of Humphrey's major novel, Miles - a retired Calvinist Methodist minister - guides the reader through the major triumphs and crises of 20th-century Wales, as he looks back over his life. M. Wynn Thomas provides an afterword descri...

  • Unconditional Surrender

    This award-winning author's nineteenth novel explores the effects of the closing months of World War II on a small community in a corner of north Wales. The story is told through two voices, the local rector and a German countess in his care as a dis...

  • Gift of a Daughter

    This is a novel of delusion and self-knowledge, tradition and change, loss and identity in which the pace, plotting, characterization, and dialogue are as faultless as we expect from Humphreys. Aled Morgan and his wife flee to Tuscany to escape a fam...

  • Flesh and Blood

    Land of the Living

    Flesh and Blood is the first of seven novels which make up The Land of the Living, a sequence which is one of the finest achievements of Welsh writing in English. Amy Parry is the central character of the series, and it is her struggles and the trial...

  • Best of Friends

    The Best of Friends is the second of seven novels which make up The Land of the Living, a series which is one of the finest achievements of Welsh writing in English....

  • Salt of the Earth

    Land of the Living

    This, the third of the novels in the series The Land of the Living, which began with Flesh and Blood and The Best of Friends, follows the career of the central character, Amy Parry, who is now a county school teacher in a small coastal resort on the...

  • An Absolute Hero

    Land of the Living

    The fourth of the novels in The Land of the Living sequence finds Amy Parry bereft of her best friend Enid who has died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her f...

  • National Winner

    The 6th in the series, Amy, on the death of her husband, is now the mistress of Brangor Hall. However, it is the death of her 2nd husband Cilydd, a poet and Eistedfodd winner, that obsesses her younger son and fuels his dislike of her. Her other son ...



  • Open Secrets

    The 5th in a series, this work conveys the conflicts and passions of a small group of individuals in Wales, weighing them against the turmoil caused by war and its effects on a significantly changing Britain....

  • Bonds of Attachment

    Land of the Living

    In this novel, Peredur defies both his mother's hostility and his brothers' lack of concern to seek out the truth of his father's death and to take part in a protest against the 1969 Investiture that goes violently wrong. Only at the end when Amy Par...

  • Old People Are a Problem

    This collection of seven long stories is for and about the elderly. The octogenarian author, Emyr Humphreys, explores change -- political, social, and physical -- and its effects on the individual and society. The stories also represent an exploratio...

  • The Shop

    Full of immense richness and subtle wit, this engaging novel examines the power of ancestral and cultural heritage and the impact such history has upon the present. As an intense young filmmaker, Bethan Mair Nichols seems to have total happiness unti...

  • A Man's Estate

    Hannah Ellis is 35, unmarried, and still living at Y Glyn, the family farm in Wales where she has been brought up by her mother and step-father -- a forbidding man with a powerful hold on the neighborhood. Loving her country yet resenting the egotism...

  • The Woman at the Window

    Gentle but haunting, this selection of short stories takes a closer look at the importance of parental and filial love down the generations. The protagonists reminisce over the pattern of their lives, looking back as well as forward, for the chance t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Emyr Humphreys has published 15 books.

Emyr Humphreys does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Woman at the Window, was published in October 2009.

The first book by Emyr Humphreys, A Toy Epic, was published in May 1990.

Yes. Emyr Humphreys has 1 series.
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