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JENKINS, EIFION

Email: eifion.jenkins@macmail.com

A writer and journalist, Eifion works in both English and Welsh and lives in Pembrokeshire. His varied output includes stories, stage plays, radio scripts, poetry and a people’s history of South Wales. Eifion’s first novel, a futuristic fantasy entitled If You Fall I Will Catch You was published by Seren in 2008.


Reviews:
With respect to If You Fall I Will Catch You (Seren, 2008):

"…Eifion Jenkins has constructed an imaginative and ambitious futuristic fiction, Asimovian in its scope. This is a big, multiviewpoint fantasy, which builds with smooth assurance from a gentle start in a peaceful, post-apocalyptic community to a wider, far more sinister perspective, shot through with tension and conflict. In the struggle to create a new future for mankind, the story cleverly mirrors our own contemporary world and illustrates with an original eye the possible consequences of our current lifestyles and political choices.  This is a captivating read..."
Liz Whittaker
 
"...An ambitious and imaginative science fiction debut..."
Catherine Fisher
 
"...An extraordinary mystical fable, shot through with a warm humanity..."
Robert Nisbet


Selected Publications:
Nightshift Blues (Torch Theatre)
Real Sisters Don’t Eat Meat (BBC Radio)
The Death of Brian (BBC Radio)
Hell of a Man and The Killing (Gomer Press)
Through the Decades (People into Print, 1994)
If You Fall I Will Catch You (Seren, 2008)

If You Fall I Will Catch You (Seren, 2008)

A futuristic fantasy by debut novelist, Eifion Jenkins. Thinking the unthinkable - knowing the unknowable. Gwidion is a boy on the verge of manhood to whom 9/11 means nothing. But the psychic shock waves of an event that once shook the world are still felt in his village, all that is left of what was once Wales.

Gwidion’s unusual mental powers bring him to the attention of the world’s remaining politicians, desperate for a way to escape the failing Earth. But in a world which has lost track of its true history, Gwidion is determined to find out the truth about his past. His efforts to answer his own questions propel him from his sheltered rural community, via the mysterious Soma Academy in Madrid, to a new life in the outer reaches of the galaxy.
 
This myth for modern times re-affirms that we are all linked, involved in the future and the past of our world in ways of which we are barely aware.

To purchase this novel from Seren, please click on its front cover