6 classic myths and legends of Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd.

In this collection of short stories, Horatio Clare re-tells six classic myths and legends of Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd.

Horatio Clare has re-imagined ten traditional stories from the Brecon Beacons, revitalising them for contemporary readers. Lending his natural storytelling and superb sense for character and voice, Horatio injects new energy and new perspectives into this cast of long-vanished characters.

These brilliantly written tales bring to life the extensive history and supernatural mystery that resides in the beautiful landscapes. Each story is accompanied with illustrations from Pembrokeshire-based illustrator Jane Matthews.

Horatio Clare’s first book, Running for the Hills, an acclaimed account of a Welsh childhood, won the Somerset Maugham Award and saw Horatio shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. His subsequent books include Truant, A Single Swallow, The Prince’s Pen and the best-selling travelogue, Down to the Sea in Ships, winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Horatio’s first book for children, Aubrey and the Terrible Yoot, was listed for the Carnegie medal and won the Branford Boase Award 2016. His essays and reviews appear regularly in the national press and on BBC radio.

By turns reflective and humorous, this highly original collection can be appreciated by all ages, and proves that far from being dead and remote, the stories we value as part of Welsh culture can be re-visited with fresh imagination.

Horatio Clare said, ‘These short stories come from places in Wales where myth and history meet to dance and wrestle.

‘Even the greatest castles are only stones without their stories. In these tales,
I asked those stones to sing.’