Alison Layland writes thought-provoking novels with engaging characters and gripping storylines.

Her latest, After the Clearances, set on a remote Welsh island, is a compelling climate-fiction novel that explores themes of belonging, protest and betrayal.

It is a successor to Riverflow, selected on publication as a Waterstones’ Wales Book of the Month. Set on the banks of the River Severn, it shares some of the characters and many of the themes of After the Clearances.

Her debut, Someone Else’s Conflict, moving between the present-day Yorkshire Dales and the Croatian conflict in the 1990s, is a compelling narrative of storytelling and the aftermath of war, and was featured as a Debut of the Month on the LoveReading website.

She also writes short stories and flash fiction; she won the short story competition at the National Eisteddfod in 2002, and her story Quirky Robbers is featured in the Honno crime anthology, Cast A Long Shadow.

She is the translator of a number of award-winning and best-selling novels, and a creative editor.

When not writing, she is an environmental and social campaigner, who enjoys walking, crafting, growing, foraging and photography around her home on the beautiful coast of Anglesey.

See more at: alayland.uk