The Writers of Wales Database

LEWIS, ROBERT

Robert Lewis is from the Black Mountains, in the Brecon Beacons. He has been a silver service waiter, painter, secretary, salesman, banker, web editor, yardcat, high–voltage cabler, housing oficer, mailboy, audit junior, welder’s assistant, and unemployed. At twenty-six, he graduated as a mature student from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The Last Llanelli Train (Serpent’s Tail, 2005), is his first novel and was short-listed for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing. His second novel, Swansea Terminal (Serpent’s Tail, 2007) was on the Wales Book of the Year 2008 Long List. Robert's third novel was published in July 2010.

Reviews:

"…A crime caper with echoes of Ealing comedy, shades of James Ellroy and even a tough of Samuel Beckett…laced with dark humour and strangely life-affirming…"
Independent on Sunday

"…Fizzy dialogue, superbly edgy writing and terrific humour…"
The Times

"…Dark, bleak, sordid, sinister and very, very funny…"
Guardian

"…Llwelyn is the real deal…"
Financial Times


Selected Publications:
The Last Llanelli Train (Serpent’s Tail, 2005)
Swansea Terminal (Serpent’s Tail, 2007)
Bank of the Black Sheep (Serpent’s Tail, 2010)



Swansea Terminal (Serpent’s Tail, 2007)

A sequel to Robert Lewis’ acclaimed debut, The Last Llanelli Train. P.I. Robin Llewellyn, the alcoholic, is back, but only just. As Swansea Terminal opens, Robin is homeless in Swansea, just another dosser intent on drinking himself into an early grave.

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