Welsh mythology, alive and kicking, on the page…

I’m delighted to say that Pig Boy is now available from the publishers Cinnamon, as well as Amazon UK US Waterstones branches and your local bookshop.

Meet Pig Boy…

Brought up in a foster family, miles from anywhere where feeding the pigs was the highpoint of his day, Pig Boy finds out he’s not who he thought he was. His journey takes him to the court of the legendary King Arthur. He encounters warriors, magicians, the King of the Otherworld and is cursed with love for someone he’s never even heard of. And that’s when the fun really starts…

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“Magical, life-changing adventure full of deep learning and memorable characters told by a master storyteller.”

— betareader review of Pig Boy

Currently available direct from the publishers Cinnamon Press or Waterstones, Amazon UK & Coles Books

 

“It is a face. Huge and bristly. It chomps and I see its tongue. It’s so close it looks like a fat arm swirling around in a bath of foamy spit. I see uneven rows of yellow teeth. Teeth for grinding and chewing and stabbing. And I know that, one day, it will eat me.”

from Pig Boy, chapter 1

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