Caryl Lewis is a multi-award-winning Welsh novelist, children's writer, playwright and screenwriter. Her breakthrough novel Martha, Jac a Sianco (2004) is widely regarded as a modern classic of Welsh literature, and sits on the Welsh curriculum. The film adaptation - with a screenplay by Lewis herself - went on to win six Welsh BAFTAS and the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2010 Celtic Media Festival. Lewis's other screenwriting work includes BBC/S4C thrillers Hinterland and Hidden. Lewis is a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University, and lives with her family on a farm near Aberystwyth. Drift is her debut novel in the English language.
Genres: Children's Fiction, Literary Fiction
New and upcoming books
Novels
Martha, Jack and Shanco (2020)
Drift (2022)
Seed (2022)
The Magician's Daughter (2023)
Bitter Honey (2025)
Drift (2022)
Seed (2022)
The Magician's Daughter (2023)
Bitter Honey (2025)
Caryl Lewis recommends
The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone (2023)
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