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Mae Jon Gower wedi ysgrifennu dros 40 o lyfrau bellach gan gynnwys Y Storïwr (Llyfr y Flwyddyn yn 2012), Norte, Rebel Rebel a The Story of Wales. The Turning Tide, am Fôr Iwerddon, yw’r llyfr diweddaraf, gyda chyfrol am y bêl droediwr Americanaidd Raymond Chester i ddilyn, ynghyd a nofel, I’w Ddiwedd Oer am yr anturiaethwr Edgar Evans. Daw Jon o Lanelli yn wreiddiol ac mae wedi ymgartrefu bellach gyda’i wraig a’u dwy ferch yng Nghaerdydd.

Jon Gower is a former BBC Wales arts and media correspondent who has over 40 books to his name. These include The Story of Wales, which accompanied a landmark TV series, the travelogue An Island Called Smith and Y Storïwr which won the Wales Book of the Year. His latest book is The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea. Forthcoming are Raider: The Raymond Chester Story and I’w Ddiwedd Oer, a Welsh language historical novel about polar explorer Edgar Evans.

The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea / Harper Collins

The Turning Tide is a hymn to a sea passage of world-historical importance. Combining social and cultural history, nature-writing, travelogue and politics, Jon Gower charts a sea which has carried both Vikings and saints, invasion forces and furtive gun-runners, writers and fishermen.

The waters of the Irish Sea have a turbulent history to match the violence of its storms. Jon Gower is a sympathetic and interested pilot, taking the reader to the great shipyards of Belfast and through the mass exodus of the starving during the Irish Famine in coffin boats bound for America. He follows the migrations of working men and women looking for work in England and tells the tales of more casual travellers: sometimes seasick, often homesick too.

You can order a copy of The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea from all good bookstores.

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  • “Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun – every page made me want to walk out the door and go look at the Irish Sea.”

    Roddy Doyle

  • “The Irish Sea has found her bard. This is a dazzle of storytelling, an enthralling trove of history and a joyful work of travel and reportage, singing with the love of the sea. Nobody can tell a tale like Jon Gower.”

    Horatio Clare, author of Down To The Sea In Ships

  • “Contagious with delight and fascination. The seeming informality, the twinkle-in-the-eye in the telling, the gentle provocation make it a joy to read. Jon’s perhaps brought into a being a new class of book, for it’s nothing if not a Racontography.”

    Cynan Jones, author of Stillicide

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