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Browse our Bookshelves, selected annually by the Exchange as a window to recent Welsh literary works which we recommend for translation.
Breathtakingly tense, vital and precise. Cynan Jones has a rare gift for making us experience, moment by moment, the struggles of his characters to survive
Carys Davies
Pellucid clinical sentences craft a loving symphony of meat and magic, mucous, mud and mire. Cynan Jones's writing is pure electric energy... Every story thrums and squirms with life. The cumulative effect is to deliver a shock to the heart of what a wild, strange and wonderful thing it is to be human
Megan Barker
The often layered, dark subject matter of Jones' stories is belied by the clarity of his language in a fascinating way
Sara Baume
Sparse, highly poetic and emotive prose that reads almost like theatrical performance.
Rhys Thomas, Folding Rock
Pulse
A man heads into the snow to hunt down the bear that has been taking stock from farms in the valley. A father tries to make something go right for the son he no longer lives with. A partner is called to help when a cow’s labour goes horribly wrong. A fierce storm threatens to bring down a tree on powerlines over a family’s home.
Fear, vulnerability, tension and resolve course through these arresting and indelible stories from one of the finest British writers at work today.
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(2025)
Granta
192 pp
ISBN: 9781783782772
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(2025)
Euan Thorneycroft
AM Heath Agency
c/o Alexandra.McNicoll@amheath.com
Dutch (Koppernik)
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Breathtakingly tense, vital and precise. Cynan Jones has a rare gift for making us experience, moment by moment, the struggles of his characters to survive
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