Monkhouse and BBC Radio 2 drivetime presenter John Dunn in a programme filled with reminiscences about their years in uniform. He was also featured in the short-lived BBC One show Time of My Life in 1983. The show was presented by Noel Edmonds and Thomas was reunited with National Service colleague Reg Wilcock for the first time in 32 years. They duetted on "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", a song they used to sing frequently at the Liberty Club in Singapore. Thomas was the subject of the first edition of BBC Wales' series Great Welsh Writers, broadcast on BBC One Wales on 25 February 2013. The programme featured interviews with Thomas, Peter Grosvenor, Frederick Forsyth and Tim Rice, as well as archive clips from earlier programmes. Honours In the New Year Honours List published 31 December 2004, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. He died in Salisbury, Wiltshire after a lengthy illness on 6 May 2014, aged 83. Bibliography Biographical This Time Next Week (1964) In My Wildest Dreams (1984) Novels The Virgin Soldiers (1966) Orange Wednesday (1967) The Love Beach (1968) Come to the War (1969) His Lordship (1970) Onward Virgin Soldiers (1971) Arthur McCann and All His Women (1972) The Man with the Power (1973) Tropic of Ruislip (1974) Stand Up Virgin Soldiers (1975) Bare Nell (1977) Ormerod's Landing (1978) That Old Gang of Mine (1979) The Magic Army (1981) The Dearest and the Best (1984) The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving (1986) Orders for New York (1989) Evening News Short Stories (1990) The Loves and Journeys of Revolving Jones (1991) Arrivals and Departures (1992) Running Away (1994) Kensington Heights (1996) Chloe's Song (1997) Other Times (1999) Waiting for the Day (2003) Dover Beach (2005) Soldiers and Lovers (2007) Dangerous Davies novels Dangerous Davies, the Last Detective (1976) Dangerous in Love (1987) Dangerous by Moonlight (1993) Dangerous Davies and the Lonely Heart (1998) Travel Some Lovely Islands (1971) Hidden Places of Britain (1981) A World of Islands (1993) Miscellaneous Midnight Clear: A Christmas Story (1978) Almost Heaven: Tales from a Cathedral (2010) References External links 1931 births 2014 deaths British Army personnel of the Malayan Emergency Officers of the Order of the British Empire People from Newport, Wales Royal Army Pay Corps soldiers Welsh non-fiction writers Welsh journalists Welsh novelists Welsh travel writers 20th-century Welsh novelists