Owen Sheers and Russell Celyn Jones at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

Event Date: 23/03/2010

Owen Sheers and Russell Celyn Jones at The Sunday Times Oxford Literary FestivalAn exciting new series of contemporary novels from leading authors, reworking the medieval myth cycle, the Mabinogion launches with Owen Sheers's White Ravens and Russell Celyn Jones's The Ninth Wave.

White Ravens is a modern reinvention of one of the best-known tales Branwen, Daughter a Llyr, which is the story of Bbendigeidfran, the giant king of Britain and his sister Branwen.

The Ninth Wave is the retelling of Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed, in which Russell Celyn Jones swaps the magical for the psychological and the courtly for the post-feminist.

Tuesday 23rd March, Christ Church College, Saint Aldate's, Oxford, OX1, 10am, Tickets £7, available from http://www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com/#. Tel.01865 276 150