The Long Dry
As a Welsh farmer plows through a long, hot day, the boundaries blur between animal and human in this acclaimed, award-winning novel. On a long, hot day, Gareth searches for a missing pregnant cow. A dog must be put down... See More
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by Cynan Jones
(87 reviews)
Quick ViewAs a Welsh farmer plows through a long, hot day, the boundaries blur between animal and human in this acclaimed, award-winning novel. On a long, hot day, Gareth searches for a missing pregnant cow. A dog must be put down... See More
by Cynan Jones
(53 reviews)
Quick ViewPraise for Cynan Jones: "[A] piercing novella... Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical." Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Jones's perfectly pitched novel will appeal to anyone... See More
by Cynan Jones
(156 reviews)
Quick ViewLife and death, animals and land, and a farmer and a stranger are all inextricably linked in this "dark, tense, and vital" award-winning novel (The Guardian). Daniel is a farmer in rural Wales who raises lambs. Another... See More
by Cynan Jones
(8 reviews)
Quick ViewHoping to give him a better start in life, Peredur's mother takes him from the estates. But when local kids cycle into his life he heads off after them, accompained by the notion of finding Arthur - an absent, imaginary... See More
by Cynan Jones
(7 reviews)
Quick ViewThe eighth installment in the New Stories from the Mabinogion series transforms a classic tale into a modern Quixotian romp. The original Peredur tale recounts the adventures of a youth bent on recognition as a knight in... See More
by Cynan Jones
(22 reviews)
Quick View"To read Cove is to take a masterclass in taking out everything but the essentials. This is writing stripped back to the bone, and storytelling that gets under the skin. Powerful, terrifying, brilliantly done." -- Jon... See More
(12 reviews)
Quick ViewThere is in the short story, at its most characteristic, something we do not often find in the novel, Frank O'Connor wrote, 'an intense awareness of human loneliness.' The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short... See More
by Cynan Jones
(21 reviews)
Quick ViewOn August 6th, 1945, at 8.15am, the Enola Gay, under the direction of President Harry S. Truman, dropped 'Little Boy' - one of the first atom bombs - on Hiroshima. Essentially, it ended the American war with Japan. At 8.14... See More
by Mark Haddon
(76 reviews)
Quick ViewThe Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award is the world's richest and most prestigious prize for a short story, with £30,000 going to the winner. This special ebook contains, exclusively and in full, all six... See More
by Bel Roberts
(2 reviews)
Quick Vieweto is a multi-genre anthology featuring new short fiction and poetry by Welsh authors and authors of Welsh heritage from around the world. eto, Volume 2 includes English-language short fiction and poetry by Bel Roberts... See More
by Cynan Jones
(96 reviews)
Quick ViewA powerful climate crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which water is commodified and vulnerable to sabotage that is "close to perfect," "imaginative and far reaching," and "very... See More