Read the first 30 pages of sci-fi classic The Last Day by Owain Owain, translated from Welsh for the first time by Emyr Wallace We're delighted that it was picked by Sôffi James to be featured in Mr B's Books of 2024.
"Documenting a future where machines have won, and the 'lost' 20th Century exists only as a handful of diary entries written by a man called Marc. Marc recounts the years between the 40s and 1999, where he spends his final months at Sunset House before the 'day of honour' - the day when the Rest finally assimilate their bodies and minds to become resource for the state. But Marc has a secret, a defence that protects him from assimilation, a secret language that the machine dictator, the Computer General, cannot translate... For fans of Orwell, Huxley, Atwood, Vonnegut and more recently Olga Ravn, while also being completely singular. This is a book you're going to want to read twice!"
