Russell Celyn Jones is the author of six novels: Ten Seconds from the Sun, Surface Tension, The Eros Hunter, An Interference of Light, Small Times and Soldiers and Innocents. He has won the David Higham Prize, Society of Authors Award, and the Weishanhu Award (China). He is a regular reviewer for several national newspapers and is Professor of Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London.
The Ninth Wave and White Ravens, the first two New stories from the Mabinogion: It is hard to take on the giants of the past without being felled by them, but Celyn Jones and Sheers have done justice to the Mabinogion, and to themselves. The Times White Ravens and The Ninth Wave, the two first New Stories from the Mabinogion: Seren has had the intriguing idea of asking prominent Welsh authors to 'reinvent' the [Mabinogion] stories [ - ]: the assignment has drawn both authors into fresh imaginative territory, without becoming entangled in what Alison, in Garner's The Owl Service, ruefully calls 'the complicated bit: all magic'.A" Saturday Guardian with typical humourA" Saturday Guardian Beautifully packaged, the first in the series [New Stories from the Mabinogion] demonstrates a knack of being contemporary yet seemingly ageless, updating the original blend of Celtic mythology and Arthurian legend to create a work that's full of life. [ - ] Told in sparse and understated prose, it's a tense and evocative piece of work that maintains the fine tradition of Welsh myth-making.A" Big Issue
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