If you're drawn to books with a Celtic setting and enjoy quality fantasy and sci-fi, or just good fiction, drop in at Great Oak Books in Llanidloes.
Author A G Rivett will be there from 10am to noon on Saturday, July 22, with copies of his novel The Seaborne, ready to talk about what drew him to write about a man from our times who finds himself on a Celtic island in a world like – but not quite the same as – ours of a thousand years ago.
Readers of The Seaborne have described the book as “beautiful”, “thought-provoking” and even “life-changing”.
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Damian Walford Davies, poet and pro vice-chancellor of Cardiff University, described it as “a parable for our particularly torn times”.
A G Rivett, who lives in Llandysul, Ceredigion, draws on his life-experience as a doctor, a priest and a crofter in weaving his tale of a man who must face the challenges of his past to find a way through to an unexpected future.
The Seaborne is the first book of the Isle Fincara Trilogy. The second book - The Priestʼs Wife – will be released in October. It was successful in gaining financial support from The Books Council of Wales through an Individual Literary Book Grant.
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