The Book of the
Western Veil.
The Lost Mythology of Wales.
The Lion of Shinar
Branch I of The Book of the Western Veil
NOW AVAILABLE: The first novel of the Lion Trilogy.
Hardcover, paperback, ebook and audiobook (Jan 2027) formats.
The Lion of Shinar is a historical-mythic novel set in ancient Mesopotamia, around 4000 BC, during the building and fall of Babel. Through Nimrod, Tubar, Asha, and the men who mean to shape the city from behind the throne, it restores the Babel account from fragment into lived history: a story of kingship, labour, friendship, ambition, betrayal, and the making of empire.
What begins as the raising of a tower against the memory of the Flood becomes the tragedy of a people giving their strength, loyalty, and faith to a city that cannot hold.
It is the opening novel of The Book of the Western Veil, and the founding story from which the Cymroth and the wider struggle beyond Babel first begin to emerge.
Available for preorder.
The Last Prince.
Edward Longshanks has driven his armies deep into Wales. Anglesey has fallen, English garrisons command the roads, and thousands of soldiers are preparing to cross the Menai Strait into the heartland of Gwynedd.
From the Welsh camp, Llywelyn's men watch the English build a bridge of boats across the water. Months of fighting have left them exhausted, their supplies dwindling and their armour in dire need of repair. The enemy can replace its losses many times over. Gwynedd captains argue over whether to set fire to the crossing while the English are still building it, or hold their ground and make de Tany's army fight for every yard of Welsh soil.
About The Author
I grew up in Mid-Wales, spending more time dreaming up stories on the ranges of Epynt than gathering sheep down. By thirty-two, I'd returned to the family farm and discovered that Mid-Wales holds more tales than anyone's writing down.
The Book of the Western Veil attempts something ambitious: reconciling Greek-Roman, Norse, and Welsh mythology with the Old Testament, all through a tenth-century monk with a soft spot for the pagan gods.
When I decided late in 2025 that I was going to try my hand as a professional author, almost everyone whose advice I sought, whether in person or through their work online, said much the same thing. Start with something simple. So I began mapping out a saga of up to thirty novels, with novellas, short stories and music to go alongside them. I’ve never been particularly orthodox.
Elwyn Davies.
The great dragon will return.
In the youth of the world, when God called for builders to shape a home for His children, Brenin Fawr answered first.
These hills rose at his command. He laboured long, believing the work would endure under his keeping. But the vineyard was always intended for others. For fragile inheritors, set to receive what the mightiest of beasts could never possess.
When the world passed from his hand, purpose turned against him, and what had been wrought became a grievance that would not rest.
For a thousand generations, Arawn, guardian of the Western Veil, kept watch where rain drove against ancient stone and mist clung to the valleys of Wales. Warmth gathered around fires in the dark months. Laws held without witness. Mercies were shown that carried no glory.
He guarded, taught, and endured, yet did not see all that moved beyond his sight.
In winter’s depth, a prince stood between two paths and chose the one that led to his grave. Then all that had been held apart was brought into the open.
The Unmaker returns.
All that was born in shadow now faces the flame.
This is The Book of the Western Veil.
A warning runs through the bones of the mountains. By the turning of the cold moon, Brenin Fawr will cross the Western Veil.
Brother Wyn, scibe of the hidden Mabinogi
Born in Buallt during the long reign of King Ffernfael, Brother Wyn of Caermynach grew from a smith’s child into the quiet chronicler whose writing preserves the hidden shape of early Wales. His life carried the marks of two influences: the discipline of the monastery that raised him and the older stories that ran beneath the hills like buried watercourses.
Wyn walked the ridge paths of Epynt with a careful ear, gathering the talk of drovers, merchants and wandering elders. He recorded their accounts with a clarity that survived long after voices faded.
Second Dawn: The Musical of the Mabinogion
A 2-hour Narrated musical based on the events of the first branch of the Book of the Western Veil