The epic industrial novels of the 1930’s, Cwmardy and We Live are published together for the first time. In Cwmardy, Big Jim, a collier and ex-Boer War soldier, and his partner Siân endure strikes, riots and war, while their son Len emerges as a dynamic political organiser.

In We Live, Marxism becomes the driving force of Len’s work underground and in union politics, and inspires him to fight in the Spanish Civil War, with tragic consequences.

Born in Clydach Vale in 1897, Lewis Jones began work underground at the age of twelve. He worked for the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement, was elected a County Councillor in 1936, and died in 1939 after a day of speaking at numerous public meetings in support of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.

One of the first five titles in the Library of Wales series.