Richard King is the author of Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade and TimesBook of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (Sunday Times Music Book of the Year), The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize) and, most recently, Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97, all published by Faber & Faber.

He is the current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media & Culture. 

The struggle for agency in Wales, from the 1960s to Devolution

An examination of the social energies animating communities across Wales during the fight for the survival of Cymraeg and the fight for economic stability in a fast deindustrialising society.