Cynan Jones's Blog - Posts Tagged "wales"

Recently back from a tour of launch events with Granta.



Many thanks to all who came along, and to the staff at the various venues who made the events such a joy to do.

Sun out as it is, I'm head down working on one of these:

New Stories from the Mabinogion

The deadline is July...

To coincide with Granta Magazine's 'Travel' issue, a letter from Wales.

Whenever I talk to reading groups, audiences, people are amazed how long it takes for a book to go from "being written" to the shelf of a shop.

Well. Not long to go. THE DIG is now available to pre-order, with an official publication date 16th January '14.

While you're waiting, I strongly suggest you read A MEAL IN WINTER - a quiet, resounding book I wish I could read again for the first time.

"Tense, tough and haunting" (Joe Dunthorne) and "winningly sparse" (Literary Review), The Dig tells the story of a farmer struggling through lambing time and his collision with a badger baiter.