The Prince's Pen

Latest in Seren's New Stories from the Mabinogion series.

England is now a defeated archipelago, but somewhere in the higher ground to the far west, insurrection is brewing. Can Ludo and Levello, the self-styled kings of Wales, free the British Isles without the help of Pakistan, the only other country left in the free world?

Award-winning author Horatio Clare refracts politics, faith and the contemporary world order through some of the earliest British myth to question our ideas about outsiders, infidels and the enemy within.

Horatio Clare was born in London in 1973, and grew up in the Black Mountains of south Wales. Running for the Hills (2006) was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. He received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2009 for A Single Swallow (2010). He divides his time between south Wales, Lancashire and London.