sentences:  "Gwalia Deserta" (1938) is about the Great Depression, while the subject of "The Angry Summer" (1943) is the 1926 miners' strike.Rhys Davies, author of "A Time To Laugh" (1937), and Menna Gallie, author of "Strike for a Kingdom" (1959) and "The Small Mine" (1962), while not working class, also wrote about life in the mining valleys of South Wales.Harold Heslop, author of the novel "The Earth Beneath" (1946) was another coal miner, but from the north-east of England, as was Sid Chaplin, who wrote "The Thin Seam" (1949).