Whaling by Nathan Munday
Nantucket whalers are invited to found the port of Milford Haven in Wales. What does the arrival of these hardy Quakers – immigrants to America a century before – mean for the local people? And what is the meaning of the beached whale that preceded them? Two cultures rub against each other and distrust grows, driven by the local preacher. As Whaling unfolds concern swerves into hysteria against the incomers and the preacher plans a grotesque, Jonah-inspired fate for the whalers. Nathan Munday’s debut novel is an exciting mélange of original fiction, historical writing and whaling images. In it he explores our relationship with the natural world, the boundary between faith and superstition, and the age old problem of immigration. Set in historical fact this is a narrative at once modern and contemporaneous, the writing rich in imagery and deceptively tense as its story slides into allegory.
Nathan Munday is a Welsh writer from Carmarthenshire. He was recently the guardian of Tŷ Mawr Wybrnant in the heart of Snowdonia, the birthplace of Bible translator and language-saviour William Morgan (c. 1545-1604). In 2016 Nathan won the M. Wynn Thomas New Scholars Prize with an essay on the poetry of R. S. Thomas. In the same year, he also came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards with his creative non-fiction book ‘Seven Days: A Pyrenean Adventure’ (Parthian, 2017). His work can be read in 4 Cheval anthologies, ‘New Welsh Review’, ‘Wales Arts Review’, ‘Fine Books & Collections’, ‘The International Journal of Welsh Writing in English’, ‘Cristion’, ‘The Evangelical Magazine’, and ‘Hinterland Magazine’. When he’s not writing and reading, he enjoys the high places and works for Christian Aid.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781727065 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781727066 |
| Title | Whaling |
| Author | Nathan Munday |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2023-05-22 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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