'Thomas just keeps on giving fiction a good name'Daily Mail
Born in Newport, Monmouthshire in 1931, Leslie Thomas is the son of a sailor who was lost at sea in 1943. His boyhood in an orphanage is evoked in This Time Next Week published in 1964. At sixteen, he became a reporter, before going on to do his national service. He won worldwide acclaim with his bestselling novel The Virgin Soldiers, which has achieved international sales of over two million copies.
It's bawdy, funny, sad and sometimes sorry and it brought those
times vividly back
*Daily Mail*
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