Siân Preece

Siân PreeceSiân Preece was born in Wales and lived in Canada and France before coming to Aberdeen, where her writing career began. She produced the ‘Hell’s Angel’ feature for the Sunday Herald, and has been a columnist and reviewer for Scottish newspapers, BBC radio and television. In 2000, her first collection of stories, ‘From the Life’, was published by Polygon, and her stories and drama are broadcast regularly on Radio Four. She was a finalist in the 1999 Macallan’s Short Story competition, and her work has been widely anthologised, including in ‘Scottish Girls About Town’ (Simon and Schuster), ‘Mama’s Baby’ and ‘Urban Welsh’ (Parthian), ‘Something Wicked’ (Polygon), and the popular ‘Little Black Dress’ anthology (Polygon). She has been an Arvon tutor, received Scottish Arts Council Bursaries in 1998 and 2002, and was awarded a Hawthornden fellowship in 2005. Currently living in Cardiff, she is working on radio drama, stories and a novel.

Books by Siân Preece

On Such a Night

Teenage Seren lives in a small Welsh town, with her caring but over-protective grandfather. She finds her escape from his zealous care by climbing trees, but otherwise lives as free as a bird, with no thought or plans for her future. At the other end of the town lives Mal, an intense, driven loner of a boy, who looks after his disabled mother and fiercely guards their privacy. He, too, climbs trees for escape, and one day he and Seren meet in the woods at the edge of the town. Initially suspicious of each other, they begin to form a quirky friendship. As this blossoms into something more, they are faced with adult challenges which will either make them stronger, or destroy them.

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