After the Clearances

July 2025

This inventive, thought-provoking feat of climate fiction is as bold, beautiful and enthralling as the Welsh landscapes it conjures. Joanne Owen, Lovereading UK

In a fractured world, the past is never truly buried and the future depends on what we choose to remember.

On a remote island ravaged by storms, a community of exiles known as the Seeders fight to preserve a fragile, self-sufficient way of life. When Sandy arrives from the mainland bearing secrets, Glesni is forced to confront long-hidden truths about her people.

Far away in the wild hills,, Bela lives by her own rules. Fierce, unyielding and shaped by the land itself, her voice carries the weight of loss in a world scarred by collapse. But when she encounters Winter, a fugitive from a shadowy government programme, their unlikely bond forges a path that leads back to the Seeders and a reckoning with the myths that bind them all.

Rooted in Welsh history and rich with the rhythms of its language and landscape, After the Clearances is an evocative, hope-filled story of resilience, resistance and what it means to belong in the aftermath of what came before.

‘A compelling story of language, community and renewal – a powerful tale of tomorrow for our own time.’ Katherine Stansfield