Cynan Jones talks to Arifa Akbar

Acclaimed Welsh fiction writer Cynan Jones introduces Pulse, a collection of short stories filled with vulnerability and tension. From the tale of a man heading into the snow to hunt down the bear that has been taking stock from farms in the valley to a story of a fierce storm that threatens to bring down a tree on powerlines over a family’s home, Pulse demonstrates Jones’ power as one of the finest contemporary voices in literary fiction and captures the beauty and brutality of rural life.

Jones, who wrote the screenplay for an episode of the BAFTA-winning crime series Hinterland and has won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction prize, speaks to the Guardian’s chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar. Jones also contributed to Seren Books’ New Stories of the Mabinogion series which published modern re-worked stories from the Celtic Mabinogion myth cycle by contemporary Welsh authors.