William Jones (novel)

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William Jones
Author	T. Rowland Hughes
Translator	Richard Ruck (Gwasg Aberystwyth edition, 1953)
Country	Wales
Language	Welsh
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Gwasg Aberystwyth
Publication date	1944
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	268 pages
ISBN	NA

William Jones is a novel by T. Rowland Hughes, written in 1944.

It tells of the story of a quarryman in Gwynedd who decides to leave his community to look for work in the coal mines of South Wales.

It describes the tough lives of the quarrymen at the beginning of the twentieth century, and furthermore it is the only Welsh novel which illustrated life in the industrial valleys of South Wales until Gwenallt wrote the novel Ffwrneisiau (published posthumously in 1982).

A quote from the book, ”Cadw dy blydi chips!” (Welsh for "Keep your bloody chips!"), is probably the first time that a swear word appeared anywhere in modern Welsh literature.