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'The Last Hundred Days' long-listed for Man Booker Prize 2011

First time novelist Patrick McGuinness is one of the Man Booker dozen on the longlist for the Man Booker Prize 2011.

The Last Hundred Days a literary spy thriller and novel of place, is set in 1989 Bucharest, in the last days of Ceasescu and creates a world of intensity and ravaged beauty as the demolition squads race to destroy the old city and replace it with a sinister Stalinist Legoland.

Two Seren titles shortlisted for the Forward Prize (Best First Collection) 2011

The Forward Prize shortlist has been announced today, and we here at Seren, are thrilled to see two of our poetry titles on the shortlist for ‘Best First Collection’ 2011.

Both Sound Archive by Nerys Williams and Loudness by Judy Brown find themselves shortlisted along with another four poets.

Graham Mort scoops Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011

Congratulations to Graham Mort who won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011 for the collection Touch (Seren). Mort was unveiled as winner at the special ceremony at Blackwells Bookshop in Charing Cross Road. Touch is set from the heat of Africa to the warmth of France or the snow bound dales of northern England, the twenty-one stories displayed a deep sensitivity to both the natural world and to human relationships. Among the collection is the 2007 Bridport prize-winning story 'The Prince'.