Cynan Jones

• Jun-2010
• / Literary
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As a Welsh farmer plows through a long, hot day, the boundaries blur between animal and human in this acclaimed, award-winning novel. On a long, hot day, Gareth searches for a missing pregnant cow. A dog must be put down, there are ducks to go in t...

• Oct-2011
• / Literary
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Praise for Cynan Jones:"[A] piercing novella. . . . Like Cormac McCarthy, Jones can make the everyday sound fraught and biblical." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Jones's perfectly pitched novel will appeal to anyone looking beyond sheer thrills."...

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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On August 6th, 1945, at 8.15am, the Enola Gay, under the direction of President Harry S. Truman, dropped ‘Little Boy’ �" one of the first atom bombs �" on Hiroshima. Essentially, it ended the American war with Japan.At 8.14 this morning, for no...

• Nov-2012
• / Fantasy
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Hoping to give him a better start in life, Peredur's mother takes him from the estates. But when local kids cycle into his life he heads off after them, accompained by the notion of finding Arthur - an absent, imaginary guardian.. And that's ...

• Dec-2012
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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The eighth installment in the New Stories from the Mabinogion series transforms a classic tale into 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 ...

• Apr-2015
• / Psychological Suspense
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Life and death, animals and land, and a farmer and a stranger are all inextricably linked in this “dark, tense, and vital” award-winning novel (The Guardian). Daniel is a farmer in rural Wales who raises lambs. Another unnamed man hunts badgers...

• Nov-2016
• / General Fiction
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“To read Cove is to take a masterclass in taking out everything but the essentials. This is writing stripped back to the bone, and storytelling that gets under the skin. Powerful, terrifying, brilliantly done.” -- Jon McGregor, author of Reservoi...

• Jan-2018
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2020
• / Literary
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New Yorker fiction writer Cynan Jones returns with a powerful climate crisis story about love and loss that offers a glimpse of a tangible future in which water is commodified and vulnerable to sabotage. Water is commodified. The Water Train that ...