Cledwyn Hughes (author)

Novels • The Different Drummer and The Inn Closes for Christmas: two novels (Pilot Press, 1947) • Wennon (Pilot Press, 1948) • The Civil Strangers (Phoenix House, 1950) • The House in the Cornfield - semi-autobiographical (Werner Laurie, 1957) Topographical writing • A Wanderer in North Wales (Phoenix House, 1949) • The Northern Marches (Robert Hale, 1953) • Poaching down the Dee (Robert Hale, 1953) • Royal Wales (Phoenix House, 1957) • West with the Tinkers (Odham Press, 1951) • Portrait of Snowdonia (Robert Hale, 1967) • The Batsford Colour Book of Wales (Batsford, 1975) Children's books • Gold and "The Moonspray"(Heinemann, 1953) • The King Who Lived on Jelly [https://www.worldcat.org/title/810812114(Routledge and Kegan Paul,1961) Other full-length works • Leonard Cheshire V. C. House, 1961) • Ponies for Children [https://www.worldcat.org/title/30229334(Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962) • Making an Orchard Books, 1961) International and translated editions • He Dared not Look Behind (A A Wyn, 1949) – Title under which 'The Inn Closes for Christmas was published' in USA and Canada • La Jambe de Cain (Gallimard, 1963) – French edition of the above • The King Who Lived on Jelly [https://www.worldcat.org/title/222000498(Special Edition, Georgian House, Melbourne, Australia, 1969) == Short stories and broadcast works ==

Over 250 short stories are known to have been published by Cledwyn Hughes. The first recorded published story being in 1943 ('Their Secret Sorrows' in the Weekly Telegraph). The manuscripts of the majority of stories are available to researchers in the National Library of Wales archives. Stories published 1943-1949 Stories published 1950-1959 Stories published 1960-1973 Broadcast works • "Charles Macintosh" - BBC Children's Hour • "The Basket"- BBC Midlands/Wales • "The Black Horse" - BBC French Service • "Watkins and the Fairies"- BBC Children's Hour • "Geekie's First Christmas"[https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182515/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/56baf658998b48aeb750cd31a02e58bc - BBC Children's Hour • "Geekie's Wonderful Christmas" - BBC Children's Hour • "Pritchard's Bees"- BBC, The Wednesday Story • "Salty Jones"[https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182515/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/542931551d464d1583bc167315ee1fcc - BBC Midland Home Service and internationally • "The Leaf which Never Died" - BBC Children's Hour • "Grower of Lavender and Professor of Magic" - BBC Norwegian Service • "The Curious Captain of the Golden Rhubarb"- BBC Children's Xmas Morning story read by Norman Shelley) • "November Day"[https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182515/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/d96396c27fc8c1c8e3d20d3860aed963 - Welsh Home Service • "The Church by the Sea" with Donald Huston - BBC Home Service, Welsh • "Seasons in Powys"[https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182513/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/2efcf3ff4b9b872fa1befb812d530e8b - BBC Home Service Welsh • "Spring Comes to Wales" with Donald Huston - BBC Home Service • "The Eternal Goddess" [https://web.archive.org/web/20230318180105/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bf2e4aae786fb862b2af6c3e0bf4b6ef - BBC Welsh Home Service • "Winter Estuary" - BBC Welsh Home Service • "The Lamb with the Tongue of Gold" - BBC Children's Hour • "The Gramophone with the Green Horn: A story of the open road" [https://web.archive.org/web/20230318180103/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/70faedeccb8cfc2aae9f8e883bdfa5b0 and - BBC Saturday Matinee • "A Song Before Winter" [https://web.archive.org/web/20230313182513/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/2efcf3ff4b9b872fa1befb812d530e8b with Carleton Hobbs - BBC Home Service • "A School by the Rose Garden" - produced by [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-38365369 Wilbert Lloyd Roberts Welsh Home Service and Home Service • "Christmas near a Green Mountain" - BBC Wales Home Service • "Johnny's Miracle" - BBC Morning Story • "The Green Eye in the Window" - BBC Morning Story • "Jericho and the Jumble Sale" [https://web.archive.org/web/20230318180103/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e08032a65fc3a573986dbb9b1cca52b6 with Dillwyn wen - BBC Morning Story • "Taking a Bird on Honeymoon" - BBC Morning Story • "The Old Strollers' Carol Party" - South African Broadcasting Corporation == Critical response and legacy ==

Hughes's writing had an international reach and received attention in a wide range of literary and popular publications. His writing is described in contemporary reviews as poetic, showing whimsy and melancholia, or at times a darker sentiment. The Spectator (7 February 1947) welcomed the first longer works by Hughes (The Inn Closes for Christmas and The Different Drummer) describing them as 'Two vivid short novels by a brilliant young Welshman whose short stories have already established his reputation'. ==References==