Discover the latest novel Boundary Waters by Tristan Hughes

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About Tristan

Tristan Hughes was born in Atikokan, a small town in northern Ontario, Canada, where he lived for four years before moving to Anglesey (or Ynys Mon in Welsh), an island off the coast of north Wales.

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Latest News

June 2025

Boundary Waters selected for:

Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month for June

Books Council of Wales Book of the Month for June

Welsh Libraries Book of the Month for June

July 4th

Event for Boundary Waters at Menai Bridge Library on July 4th at 7pm

June 26th

Launch Event for Boundary Waters in Waterstones,  Cardiff on Thursday June 26th at 7pm

January 2025

Publication date announced for my new novel, Boundary Waters.  Due to come out on June 2nd  2025.

May 16th 2018

Short story, ‘Up Here’, wins an O. Henry Award and will be included in the 2018 O. Henry Prize Anthology.

May 11th 2018

Hummingbird shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2018.

Recent Reviews

Hughes’s rapt and rhythmic prose captures all the secretive intensity of an “entire compacted country”: not just this island of saints and sinners off the north Welsh coast, but youth itself.
– The Independent

Superbly accomplished. Hughes’s prose is startling and luminous.
– Financial Times

Brunowski
beautifully evocative writing
This gentle, well-wrought novel contains writing of the highest order. Thoughtful, concise prose, in an incisively observed coming of age tale. You can almost smell the pines, and hear the wind rippling the lake.
G. Stone
Powerfully real
This story is told with an intensity that draws you along, it is written with an economy of style, I felt there was not a single wasted word. Like the best of novels through the description of the particular it holds a mirror to universal experience.
Devoid-iii
All good, very happy!
Fantastic book- a beautiful, touching and often amusing read with some very familiar characters!! I steamed through this book so quickly, it was a shame when it ended. I passed my copy on to a friend, and bought a new copy as a gift for someone else. Definitely no reservations in recommending this book.
Mrs. Mp Roberts
Five Stars
A GOOD READ