An acclaimed author with Tenby roots has just released his new novel ‘The Killing of Butterfly Joe’.

Welsh author Rhidian Brook, the award-winning, bestselling author of ‘The Aftermath’ (which is coming out at as major movie later this year, starring Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard) grew up in Tenby, and his mum still lives in Pembrokeshire.

His first novel ‘The Testimony of Taliesin Jones’ - set in a fictional Pembrokeshire, won several prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, and he was short-listed for Welsh Book of The Year 1997.

His short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including the Paris Review and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He is also a regular contributor to ‘Thought For The Day’.

His new book which is out now and published by Picador is loosely based on Rhid’s own experiences travelling through America as a butterfly salesman in his early twenties with a larger than life character called Joe!

Hurtling across 1980s America, this wildly original story is full of characters you’ll never forget.

Part neo-gothic thriller, part existential road trip, part morality tale, ‘The Killing of Butterfly Joe’ is a wildly original story, telling an epic tale of friendship, desire and the search for freedom and self-definition.