Gareth King

Gareth King is the author of numerous books on language and languages for Routledge/Taylor & Francis and Oxford University Press, including a range of well-known and popular titles written for learners of Welsh.

He did his first degree at Cambridge University during the Cold War - dividing his undergraduate years between studying for the then customary degree in Russian, Czech and Old Church Slavonic, and playing cricket for Caius Second XI - and sensibly went on some years later to do an MA in Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic at Aberystwyth, learning Welsh in the process.

December 2010 saw the publication of his extensive revision and expansion of George Campbell's well-known Concise Compendium of the World's Languages, followed exactly two years later by a similar updating of the original 2-volume edition.

He continues to write Welsh titles, acts as consultant for a major publisher and works intermittently as a professional translator.