The eighth installment in the New Stories from the Mabinogion seriestransforms a classictaleinto a modern Quixotian romp. The original Peredur tale recounts the adventures of a youth bent on recognition as a knight in King Arthur s court. In true questing fashion, he defends maidens, defeats giants, and eventually overcomes the witches who have cursed him. Hoping to save him from the same fate as his father and brothers dead, jailed, or missing Peredur s mother takes him from the estates. But the world won t be held at bay in this version; when local kids cycle into his life, he follows."
The eighth installment in the New Stories from the Mabinogion seriestransforms a classictaleinto a modern Quixotian romp. The original Peredur tale re...
In the aching cold where night bumps into day, Hold hears noises that indicate he isn't alone. Out at the edge of his nets a rudderless dinghy is thumping against the rocks, prey to the ebbing tide. What he finds there changes everything.
In the aching cold where night bumps into day, Hold hears noises that indicate he isn't alone. Out at the edge of his nets a rudderless dinghy is thum...
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.
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...
