White Ravens First Edition

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White Ravens First Edition

Author(s): Owen Sheers (Author)

  • Publisher: Seren
  • Publication Date: 8 July 2011
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 160 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1854115030
  • ISBN-13: 9781854115034

Book Description

Two stories, two different times, but the thread of an ancient tale runs through the lives of twenty-first century farmer s daughter Rhian and the mysterious Branwen…

After being wounded in Italy, Matthew O Connell is seeing out WWII in an obscure government department spreading rumours and myths to the enemy. But when he s given the bizarre task of escorting a box containing six raven chicks from a remote hill farm to the Tower of London, he becomes part of a story over which he seems to have no control.

The eleven stories in the Mabinogion come from two medieval Welsh manuscripts, with roots dating back many centuries earlier. They bring us Celtic mythology, Arthurian romance, and their own view of the Island of Britain. There is enchantment and shapeshifting, conflict, peacemaking, love and betrayal.

In the New Stories from the Mabinogion series, the old tales are at the heart of the new. Each author reinvents a story in their own way: creating fresh, contemporary tales that speak to us as much of our own world as of events long gone.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“a gripping contemporary story… brilliantly absorbs the magical elements of the original – The Guardian

Sheers makes his 20th-century setting sing but holds on to the otherworldliness of his source material… A spellbinding fable about male self-destructiveness and the effects of war on those who return home. —The Financial Times

About the Author

Owen Sheers was born in 1974, spent a portion of his childhood abroad, then returned to live on a farm in Abergavenny when he was nine. Educated at Oxford, with an MA in Creative Writing from the UEA writing programme, he has worked in television in London and Wales. He hit the limelight in 2000 when for The Times of January 1st, 2000, David Bailey photographed the foremost practitioners in the arts and sciences together with their choice of the person they expected to carry the discipline forward: Poet Laureate Andrew Motion selected Owen Sheers as the poet to watch. His first collection, The Blue Book, was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection and ACW Book of the Year 2001. Skirrid Hill, his second collection, won a Somerset Maugham Prize in 2006 and was longlisted for Welsh Book of the Year. Owen Sheers was recently appointed as the first-ever artist in residence for the Welsh Rugby Union.

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