Echoes and Shadows

ECHOES AND SHADOWS is a collection of twelve tales of the supernatural by Welsh writer, Jon Manchip White. These well-crafted, learned, entertaining, sometimes acerbic and often melancholy stories explore, through a varied range of narrative voices and vivid characters, the age-old Welsh obsessions with death and the distant past. Shifting seamlessly through time and space, the tales unravel in settings as diverse as prehistoric Wales and present-day Mexico. In 'Birdie', incomers to a small Welsh town discover the dangers of meddling in the affairs of inconvenient neighbours, and there are echoes of Manchip White's fellow-Welsh word-magician Arthur Machen in 'Angharad', in which a crippled young girl finds solace of a kind in an ancient Welsh grove. In 'Moel Hebog', a passionate Iron Age love-affair is immortalised in the form of a savage, ghostly hawk. A young man's seemingly harmless hobby becomes a nightmarish compulsion in 'Shadowplay', whilst in 'Ora Pro Nobis' an expatriate academic learns the value of uncomplicated religious faith from his Hispanic cleaning-woman. Echoes and Shadows is a sewn hardback book of 220 pages.

Limited to 300 copies. Sold out at the Publisher