Water Nigel Thompson December 2009 (photo: © Thomas

December 2009 (photo: © Thomas Rösch)

elegiac but with unexpected leaps of the imagination

To support himself while writing he worked for a time as a meter reader and his memoir

this excerpt from his novel Nomad Roots recalling an Iraqi soldier’s struggle to exist in the southern desert

Water Nigel Thompson December 2009 (photo: © ThomasAn ecological disaster has left Wales an island. People struggle for survival day after day. This gripping novel, with strong parallels with Cormac McCarthys The Road, is set on a remote lake side farm, Dolfrwynog, in north Wales, where we are introduced to a family living a basic life following a worldwide crisis. The mother, Elin, has turned her back on the world, unable to cope with its hardships, the cold, the poverty. Uncle Wil is aging and the