THOSE who delighted in Byron Rogers' book An Audience with an Elephant will not be surprised that his latest book, The Man who went into the West, should have sold out in three weeks. Rogers, Bancyfelin-born and Carmarthen Grammar School educated, where he was a pupil of the late Jack Thomas of Tenby, before becoming an Oxford graduate, like so many before and since had to go to England to earn his living. There he became a leading journalist and, more recently, an author of repute. But he has never forgotten his native roots or lost his love of Wales. In his book, An Audience with an Elephant, he told something in his own incisive style of his experiences as a scriptwriter for Prince Charles and has said, 'Those were very strange times.' In the same book he wrote briefly of his meeting, when still a schoolboy, with the late, now increasingly famous Welsh cleric and poet, R. S. Thomas, described by The Mail on Sunday as 'the greatest lyric poet of our time.' The same paper said of the new book by Byron Rogers, 'Biography touched by genius,' and the Sunday Telegraph said 'This book should be awarded every literary prize.' The Man who went into the West is published by Aurum at £16.99.
