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A blog from Paul Binding author of 'After Brock'

In After Brock  the adventure of Pete Kempsey and Sam Price in the Berwyns in 1974 contrasts with that of Pete’s son, Nat, in those same mountains in 2009. Pete and Sam are intrigued by UFOs and the possibility of their having landed in the Berwyns (as some still maintain they did in January 1974). But Nat’s interest and sympathies are aroused by the mountains’ long-indigenous denizens – in his case, the badgers he is fortunate enough to observe.

Celebrate International Women's Day with Seren

Seren will be celebrating International Women's Day by offering you some fantastic books by women writers at a discounted rate.

The following titles, some by award winning authors, will be available for only £5 from 8am-8pm on 8th of March 2012. This offer is exclusive to the Seren website.

What Did you do in the War, Mummy? Frank and vivid stories from a wonderfully varied collection of women who talk to Mavis Nicholson about their lives during the second world war. Their frank and vivid stories reveal intimate details of how they lived, worked, loved and coped in those years. Foreword by Dame Vera Lynne.

"A wonderful read" Paul O'Grady

'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'.

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize ‘Suspended’

Sponsors of the John Llewellyn Rhys prize, Booktrust, suffered severe funding cuts, which has resulted in the suspension of the popular prize.

The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a literary prize and was created to award authors from the Commonwealth under the age of 35.

Jane Oliver initiated the prize for the her husband, John Llewellyn Rhys, a writer who died tragically young, serving in the RAF in 1940.

Richard Collins on a Journey - 'In search of Fiction' Blog Part 1

Here is something that I wrote after I got back from my Literature Wales (Academi) sponsored trip to New York City 2006:

It's hot and humid Saturday afternoon in July and I'm standing in Fulton Ferry Park watching Boomernag Theatre Company get ready to perform. The park is small but spectacularly situated on the Brooklyn side of East River, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge. Big suspension bridges, they arch high above the water, framing a view of Manhattan skyscrapers.

Wales says YES! So what's next? - Martin Shipton blogs for Seren

The decisive Yes vote delivered by the people of Wales marks the National Assembly’s transition from being a pale imitation of a Parliament to being a fully fledged legislature. Until now, it has been a national humiliation that our democratically elected politicians have had to go cap in hand to Westminster every time they wanted to make a law in a new area.

Paul Henry interview with Sheenagh Pugh

An interview with Paul Henry - from Sheenagh Pugh's online blog

Paul Henry is one of Wales’s leading poets. The author of five collections of verse, he has read at festivals across the UK and Europe. Originally a songwriter, Henry has guest-edited Poetry Wales and is a popular Creative Writing tutor. He recently presented the 'Inspired' series of arts programmes for BBC Radio Wales. His Selected Poems, The Brittle Sea, was published by Seren in 2010.