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Brian John

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Brian John (born 1940) is the author of the historical-fiction series Angel Mountain Saga (8 volumes).

Brian was born in Carmarthen, Wales. He studied at Haverfordwest Grammar School and at Jesus College, Oxford, where he read Geography from 1959 to 1962 and went on to obtain a D Phil for a study of the Ice Age in Wales. He worked as a field scientist in Antarctica and spent eleven years as a Geography Lecturer in Durham University. He has travelled widely in the Arctic, Antarctic and Scandinavia. Since 1977 he has made his living as a writer and publisher.

Brian is also actively involved in environmental and community organizations; in 1980 he founded the West Wales Eco Centre in Newport and is one of the leaders of the community group "GM F
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There are two other sites which have been set up for followers of the incorrigible heroine Martha Morgan and the 8 novels of the Angel Mountain Saga. One is a blog site on which I periodically post news:

http://brian-angelmountain.blogspot.c...

and the other is a Facebook page (proving very popular indeed) devoted to Martha Morgan Country -- the newly designated area of literary tourism interest:

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“Not strictly one of mine, but worth repeating! A very forceful old lady in these parts, when referring to the eight novels of the Angel Mountain Saga,was heard to say: "You know them books by that fellow Brian John? If I was you I wouldn't believe a single word. Take it from me. It's lies -- all lies!”
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