Immerse yourself in a richly imagined world of myth, magic, and feminist storytelling with author Brigid Lowe, as she discusses her new book The Bloody Branch, a dark, eco-gothic retelling of the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion.
The Bloody Branch reimagines the stories of Blodeuwedd, Arianrhod, and Goewin through a fierce feminist and ecological lens, bringing Wales’s national myths to life in a narrative charged with magic, danger, and ancient power.
As darkness spreads across the kingdom under the cruel ambition of the magician Gwydion, three women must unite and unleash their most uncanny strengths to defend the land that binds them. Vital, visceral and richly atmospheric, Lowe’s novel is a story of desire, revenge, nature and female resilience, casting an ancient light on themes that feel urgent and resonant today.
Brigid Lowe grew up in a remote Welsh-speaking community on Ynys Môn with her Irish immigrant parents and younger sister. She now lives with her children in Yr Hen Ogledd — The Old North — once part of a shared Cumbric nation with Wales. She studied literature at Bangor, completed her doctorate at Oxford, and later taught at Sheffield and Cambridge Universities, publishing widely on the art of fiction. Brigid descends from travellers, circus performers, mill workers and gallowglass warriors. She photographs flowers, forages, climbs pinnacles, and swims in ice-cold waters, caves and bottomless pools — a life steeped in the landscape that informs her fiction.
This event is part of our new Griffin Books After Hours series of talks, interviews and discussions, which will take place in our newly expanded shop.
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Wednesday 11 February | 7.30 pm
Griffin Books, 9A Windsor Road, Penarth, CF64 1JB*
Tickets: £20.00 including a SIGNED hardback copy of The Bloody Branch (RRP £16.99)** / £8.00 Event Only*** / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket
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