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Colin Bradshaw-Jones is author of a number of books including the bilingual collection of Welsh Folk Tales ‘Tales From The Wild Chair/Chwedlau o’r Gadair Wyllt’ (www.thewildchair.com). Colin is also the author of the revolutionary 10CD language course ‘Cadw Swn’ (www.cadwswn.com) and compiler of the World Folk Tales collection.  The series aims to present folk stories in a fresh light in order to bring them to the attention of a new audience.  His website can be found at www.colinbradshawjones.com.

Lady Charlotte Guest is best known for her translation of the Welsh epic The Mabinogion into English, a language which she had learnt after coming to Wales from England .  After the death of her first husband, Sir John Guest, she took over the running of the Dowlais Iron Works.  She later remarried, and together with her second husband, Charles Schreiber, began assembling a ceramics collection, known today as the Schreiber collection on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum .

Howard David Johnson is a visual artist with a background in the natural sciences and history.  He works in a wide variety of media ranging from traditional oils to digital media.  After a lifetime of drawing and painting, his art was exhibited in the British Museum in London in 1996, as well as many others, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  His work has appeared in every major bookstore in America as well as magazines and educational texts around the world.  As an illustrator he has not only used the computer but has been involved in developing and marketing of software for Adobe Photoshop.  A lavish full-colour volume of his fairy paintings is in production. Howard David Johnson’s website is www.howarddavidjohnson.com.  

Sir James Knowles is credited as ‘compiler and arranger’ of The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, which he describes as ‘an abridgement of Sir Thomas Malory’s version of them as printed by Caxton – with a few additions from Geoffrey of Monmouth and other sources – and an endeavour to arrange the many tales into a more or less consecutive story.’ He was knighted in 1904, and died in 1908.