In Conversation: Cynan Jones - Cardiff

Cynan Jones joins us to celebrate his powerful new book PULSE. A collection of viscerally powerful short stories in which man is pitted against nature, against circumstance, and against himself.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.Praise for Cynan’s work:• "Beautifully distilled... speaks louder than many a novel three times its length" - Daily Mail• "Arresting... Cynan Jones is a highly accomplished writer" - Guardian• "This is writing that forces you to pay close attention... A powerful story" - The Times• "The writing [is] spare and economical... lyrical... short and intense" - Sunday TelegraphCYNAN JONES won a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award 2007, a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize 2014, the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2015 and the BBC National Short Story Award 2017.

His work has appeared in more than twenty countries, on BBC Radio 4 and in Granta, Freeman's, and the New Yorker. He is the author of The Dig, Cove and Stillicide among others. He lives in Wales.Refreshments will be provided! Please note that our events space is on the first floor, accessible via stairs or lift. Do contact us if you have any access questions.

Doors open at 18:30. Latecomers will be admitted until 19:10.