The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas

his new book is a bibliophile’s joy, celebrating a world that if the digitisers get their way will soon vanish. Jeff has met everyone still around, visited the great collectors, rambled the States, sought the missing and found the lost. His stories of the literary hunt can read like Agatha Christie. These essays are certainly the wilder shores. Long may Jeff Towns celebrate them.

Jeff Towns is one of the world’s leading Dylan Thomas experts, an antiquarian bookseller based in Swansea, specialising in books about Dylan Thomas and all aspects of Welsh culture. He opened Dylans Bookstore in 1970, firstly in the High Street, and after a few moves settling in Salubrious Passage. He has pursued Dylan Thomas’s life, friends and works around the globe actively collecting books, papers photographs, ephemera and art relating to Dylan Thomas. These collections now sit in museums and institutions from Kyoto in Japan, to Texas, via San Francisco and all the way from Abertawe to Aberystwyth & the National Library of Wales. He has sold Dylan Thomas to Politicians, Presidents, Poets, Rock Stars and musicians.