Since then, he has published four novels, Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), The Dig (2014), and Cove (2016) and a collection of linked short stories, Stillicide (2019).
[2] His work has been translated into other languages, and his short stories have appeared in a number of anthologies and publications including Granta, New Welsh Review, and The New Yorker.
Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a copywriter, a labourer and a kitchen porter, mentored in a behavioural unit and ran a wine shop.
In 2012, he published Bird, Blood, Snow (Seren Books), one of ten re-workings of stories from The Mabinogion by contemporary Welsh authors, including Gwyneth Lewis and Owen Sheers.
The story A Glass of Cold Water aired in May 2014 as part of BBC Radio 4's State of the Nation series.
[13] In 2019, Jones published Stillicide, a collection of 12 linked short stories on the theme of climate crisis set in the near future.
[19] In another interview, Jones addressed the idea that there is "a natural allegory in the center of [his books] that really informs the human situation".
[20] When asked about "the saccharine and the violent" that a lot of literature avoids, Jones said that he trusts the reader to have an understanding of the "innate" nature of a situation and all he has to do is "write it down as clearly as I can, and without judgement", more like a witness than a voyeur.
The author agreed on the impact of this unconventional device and finished the rest of the book this way, save for one conversation between the protagonist and his mother.