The Ninth Wave

Russell Celyn Jones

Pwyll, a young Welsh ruler in a post-oil world, finds his inherited status and military obligations hard to take. Not only this but he’s never quite sure how he’s drawn into murdering his future wife’s fiancé, losing his only son and switching beds with the king of the underworld… The Ninth Wave is an arresting, contemporary retelling of a centuries-old Welsh myth, beginning Seren's new series 'New Stories from the Mabinogion'…

Non-Return

Dai Vaughan

A hugely energetic rumination on politics, family and fiction, Non-Return traces the life of a technical draughtsman and writer, following his efforts to reconcile his art and his everyday life. Interspersed with exquisitely-written short fictions, this is a novel about fatherhood, work, memory, the disempowerment of the individual, and the significance of protest - most keenly explored in the death of the narrator’s wife, a resident of the Greenham Common peace camp ...