Aflonydd" (enthusiastic, busy, restless). She names her favourite Welsh-language authors as Gareth F. Williams, Manon Steffan Ros, Islwyn Ffowc Elis and Geraint V Jones, and her favourite English-language authors as Roddy Doyle, Isabel Allende, JK Rowling and Barbara Kingsolver. In February 2009 she featured in the second episode of Britain's Best Drives, talking about the Welsh language to the presenter, actor Richard Wilson, at Caernarfon. Her published titles Her short story Gwlad y Gwalltiau Gwyllt was published in Stori Cyn Cysgu (2005), a collection by nine authors and four illustrators of bedtime stories for young children. She also contributed a story to the sequel, Stori Cyn Cysgu: 2 (2008). She contributed two short stories to Tinboeth (2007), a collection of 10 erotic stories by nine prominent Welsh female authors. The book itself does not identify which stories were written by whom, and although Gwanas would have been happy to put her name to her work, not all the contributors were willing to do so. The two stories Miss Huws and Dan y dŵr are unmistakably Gwanas's work. Although no credit is given in the book, she also acted as editor for this collection of stories. She edited the sequel, Tinboethach (2008), though did not contribute any stories to this. She contributed an item to Cofio Grav, a tribute volume of poems and essays to Ray Gravell, the Welsh rugby player, who died suddenly in 2007. She contributed to Honco! (2009), a compilation of stories for children aged 9–11. She contributed an item to Nain/Mam-gu (2010), a compilation about grandmothers. The following table classifies her published titles by genre (listed in order of publication) : Family background Gwanas's real surname is Evans. She takes the name "Gwanas" (as did her father) from the home farm of that name, built in 1838. Gwanas's grandparents lived at "Gwanas" from 1947 until 1971 when her grandfather decided to move to the nearby town of Dolgellau. In 1971, when she was nine, her parents moved in, having previously lived locally in Dolserau Terrace, Brithdir, and prior to that in a caravan behind the farm. As a child Gwanas shared the attic bedroom with her two sisters, the other bedrooms being used for bed & breakfast guests. In 2006 her brother Geraint and his family took over Gwanas. Her father, Tom Evans, a baritone, has twice won the Rhuban Glas (Blue Ribbon) at the National Eisteddfod,