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.