New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p>In New Stories from the Mabinogion ten great authors have taken the Celtic myth cycle as a starting point to give us masterly re-workings with a modern twist in a series both various and wonderful. We have reached the orbit of Mars, the Tower of London and the edges of India, travelled in time to WW2 and forward to the near future, seen...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p>Fountainville is a strange, lonely town on the edge of everywhere, with its own healing secrets, as revealed by Luna, assistant to Begum, the Lady of the Fountain, in this retelling of celtic Mabinogion myth by poet and novelist Tishani Doshi. Under their care the town flourishes, but when the mysterious Mr Knight arrives at their house...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p>Enid wants a dog and wants to be a spy, but listening in on adult conversations doesn’t seem to bring her any nearer to understanding their troubled world. For all that,when times get tough and she has to stay with the Erbins, particularly her rich and spoilt cousin Geraint, she has plenty of verbal ammunition to help her fight...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p><a href="http://americymru.net/profiles/blogs/peredur-immune-to-mildness-an-inter... target="_blank">Peredur - 'Immune to mildness' An Interview With Cynan Jones</a></p><p><em>"...a remarkably interesting interpretation of this legendary hero's doing indeed&...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p>"Lloyd Jones's novella has the epic scope of the novels of Umberto Eco... the quirkiness and attention to details of John Irving." <em>– <strong>New Welsh Review</strong></em><br /><br />"Jones captures a magic largely absent from the modern world."...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p><em>"Dafydd seamlessly amalgamates the extraordinary into the everyday in her reworking of 'Culhwch and Olwen'" </em><strong>The Guardian 2011</strong></p><p>Life is tough for Cilydd, after his wife Goleuddydd, who is nine months pregnant, seems to vanish into thin air...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p><em>"...an epic tale of conflict, faith and banishment...this reworked tale provides a graphic depict</em><em>ion of the cruelty of war and torture" </em><strong>The Guardian 2011</strong></p><p>The Invaders' drones hear everything and see all. England is now a...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p><br /><br /><em>"..both tales include passages of razor-sharp humour as well as great beauty and poignancy..."</em> <strong>- New Welsh Review</strong></p><p>Iraq-bound young squaddie Ronnie takes something dodgy and falls asleep for three nights in a filthy hovel where he...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p><strong>‘The successful recreation of myth requires a wiliness that exceeds that of the original myth makers, and Lewis patiently and skillfully demonstrates that wiliness’ – The TLS</strong></p><p> </p><p>A dangerous tale of desire, DNA, incest and flowers plays...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p>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… In this bizarrely...
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New Stories from the Mabinogion
<p><em>"a gripping contemporary story… brilliantly absorbs the magical elements of the original” </em><strong>The Guardian</strong></p><p><em>“Sheers makes his 20th-century setting sing but holds on to the otherworldliness of his source material… A...
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