The Writers of Wales Database

JONES, TIA

Email: tiajones007@gmail.com

Tia Jones lives and works with her husband on their organic hill farm in Montgomeryshire. She has written for television and radio, and has regularly contributed to newspapers and magazines including Country Times and Landscape, Country Living and The Field. In 1995 her drama for television, ‘Llety Piod’, (Magpie’s Home) was directed by Ceri Sherlock and starred Bill Nighy, Sandra Dickenson, Stewart Jones, Alun Eldyr and Catrin Fychan was shown by S4C. It has been subsequently sold internationally to Croatia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Ireland. It has also been used as set text for GCSE.

A regular contributor to The Daily Post as an equine columnist, Tia‘s first novel, On Open Ground, was published in 2008 by Gomer. It is set in post-War rural Wales and explores the impact of unspoken truths in an isolated and superstitious community. She has started writing the sequel and intends a trilogy. Tia is a Member of Academi.

Selected Publications:
On Open Ground (Gomer, 2008)



On Open Ground (Gomer, 2008)

A gripping novel in which deceit and deception pervade a quiet rural community. Having lost her family in the newly ended World War Two, Elin relocates to a quiet rural community in an attempt to rebuild her life. She marries a local farmer and starts a family, and it seems that life is going her way at last. But is all really as it appears?

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