Terry Jones

Jones was born in Colwyn Bay[?], Wales, and graduated from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He appeared on At Last the 1948 Show with Michael Palin and John Cleese and wrote for The Frost Report[?] and several other of David Frost[?]'s programmes on British television. He was a member of the team of writers and performers that made Monty Python's Flying Circus. He co-wrote with Michael Palin Ripping Yarns, and wrote the screenplay for Labyrinth (1986). He has also written several books on mediæval history and numerous works for children.

Publications

Fiction

• Fairy Tales (1981)
• The Saga of Erik the Viking (1983) (Children's Book Award 1984)
• Nicobobinus (1985)
• The Knights and the Squire (1997)
• Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic[?] (1997), a novel based on the computer game of the same name by Douglas Adams

with Brian Froud

• The Goblins of the Labyrinth (1986)
• Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book (1994)
• The Goblin Companion: A Field Guide to Goblins (1996) (an abridged re-release of The Goblins of the Labyrinth, in a smaller format with the colour plates missing)
• Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells: Quentin Cottington's Journal of Faery Research (1996)

Non-fiction

• Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary (1980, updated 1994)
• Foreword to The Quest for King Arthur by David Day (1995)

Television

Terry Jones has presented several factual television programmes, notably a major BBC documentary series, The Crusades (1996).

Screenplays

• Labyrinth (1986)
• Erik the Viking (1989), which includes a notice in the credits specifically disclaiming any link with Jones's earlier novel ("although he hopes it will help the sales")
• The Wind in the Willows[?] (1996)