The Writers of Wales Database

ELLIS, GERAINT

Website: http://geraintellis.com/

Geraint was born and grew up in Beaumaris, Sir Fôn from a long line of local creative artists. His great, great, great grandfather was the organ builder and musician Lewis Ellis. Educated in Germany, Oxford and York, Geraint's professional career was in education in England. He retired at the age of fifty-two and returned to live in Wales with his wife Margaret. They have two sons. 

Geraint has recently published his first novel entitled Reaching Out Reaching In (Geraint Ellis, 2009). He describes it as "an exploration of love, as characters embark on a voyage of self-discovery". He is currently writing Self, in Mind - A series of (mostly humorous) monologues based on the voices of well-known actors and 'Unintended Consequences' (Golden Gate Bridge suicides) - A dark, one act theatre play set in a mental health clinic in the USA.

The photograph of Geraint above is copyright to Alix Morgan.

Selected Publications:
Reaching Out Reaching In (Geraint Ellis, 2009)
Self, in Mind (forthcoming)



Reaching Out Reaching In (Geraint Ellis, 2009)

Four women, two men: six characters in search of themselves. They want to know what makes them tick - why they are the way they are. Pleasure is the aim: discovery the game. Their minds are awash with ideas and wild speculation. But an ambush lies ahead. For while pre-occupied with the idea of thinking about what it is to be human, they are about to make their greatest discovery, that ‘the heart has reasons that reason knows nothing of’.

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