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27th November, 2024

10 Deals for Black Friday


This Black Friday we’re offering 50% off these 10 fantastic Seren books – perfect for Christmas, or as a personal Black Friday Treat.  Offer ends Sunday 1st December.

This cover shows a painting of rolling golden fields stretching into the distance where a lake sits at the bottom of the valley. The text reads: A Last Respect

A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology

Edited by Glyn Mathias & Daniel G. Williams

£9.99 – Reduced to £4.99

Celebrating the best of contemporary Welsh poetry, A Last Respect features poems from the eleven collections awarded the Roland Mathias Prize. Featuring work by Dannie Abse, Tiffany Atkinson, Ruth Bidgood, Ailbhe Darcy, Rhian Edwards, Christine Evans, John Freeman, Philip Gross, Gwyneth Lewis, Robert Minhinnick, and Owen Sheers, these poems cover a wide range of topics from relationships, nature and environmental issues, to mortality, time, war, Wales, and even the minefield of parents’ evenings. The perfect gift for any poetry lover.

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This cover has a bright pink background. A cut out image of a young Lucy Cannon wearing a white comunion gown with her hands raised in prayer and drawn devil horns is in the middle. The text reads: The Amazingly Astonishing Story by Lucy Gannon.

The Amazingly Astonishing Story

Lucy Gannon

£12.99 – Reduced to £6.49

Lucy Gannon is the writer of 8 plays and 18 TV dramas or series, including The Best of Men, Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice, Bramwell, and Dad. By turns laugh out loud funny and deeply sad, The Amazingly Astonishing Story is her childhood memoir, a classic story of a working-class girl growing up in the fifties and sixties, where dreams and reality seem irreconcilable. Her Catholic upbringing, a father torn between his daughter and his new wife, a chance meeting with The Beatles in the school playground and her irreverent imagination and determination to enjoy life, really does make this an amazing story.

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This cover shows a close up photo of a broken wire fence threaded with barbed wire. The text reads: What Remains at the End. Alexandra Ford.

What Remains at the End

Alexandra Ford

£9.99 – Reduced to £4.99

Marie Kohler’s grandparents didn’t talk about their past, or how they came to America. Wanting to know more about her own history, Marie travels to the former Yugoslavia where she learns of atrocities committed against Yugoslavia’s ethnic Germans, the Danube Swabians, in the aftermath of World War II by Tito’s Partisan regime. Stories of Tito’s victims – a young survivor who has lost his mother and his identity, a woman held captive in a sugar factory, a refugee girl living in Austria under the din of air raid sirens – merge with Marie’s own journey as she searches for truth and connection in the face of loss and long-held family secrets.

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This cover shows a watercolour illustration of a winding river surrounded by blank white space. The text reads: A Fold in the River. Phillip Gross. Valerie Coffin Price.

A Fold in the River

Philip Gross and Valerie Coffin Price

£12.99 – Reduced to £6.49

The result of a collaboration between T.S. Eliot prize-winning poet Philip Gross and visual artist Valerie Coffin Price, A Fold in the River is a creative conversation between words and paint, set on the banks of the River Taff. Considering the river, nature, landscape, history and ways of seeing, this book is for anyone who has experienced the beauty of our ancient waterways.

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This cover shows a paper cut out of a tree and a chapel casting shadow on a purple background. The text reads: The White Trail. Fflur Dafydd. New Stories From the Mabinogion.

The White Trail

Fflur Dafydd

£8.99 – Reduced to £4.49

Life is tough for Cilydd, after his wife Goleuddydd, who is nine months pregnant, seems to vanish into thin air at a supermarket one wintry afternoon. Cilydd gets his cousin, Arthur – a private eye who has never solved a single case – to help him with the investigation. So begins a tale of intrigue and confusion that ends with a wild boar chase and a dangerous journey to the House of the Missing. In this contemporary retelling, award-winning Welsh writer Fflur Dafydd transforms the medieval Welsh Arthurian myth of the Mabinogion’s ‘Culhwch and Olwen’ into a 21st century quest for love and revenge.

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This cover shows a black and white photograph of a boy sat alone on a hospital bed. One of his legs is missing from the knee down and he is resting on crutches. The text reads: Aperture: Life Through a Fleet Street Lens. John Downing.

Aperture: Life Through a Fleet Street Lens

John Downing with Wendy Holden

£19.99 – Reduced to £9.99

John Downing was the pre-eminent press photographer of his generation and seven-time winner of the British Press Photographer of the Year. Aperture: Life Through a Fleet Street Lens is an account of his life and a career which placed him at the forefront of photojournalism during one of the most interesting periods in world history. Exploring both the glamour of journalism at the time and the gruelling nature of assignments in places such as South Sudan, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Uganda, Bangladesh and Chernobyl, this is a unique and first-hand insight into life behind the Fleet Street lens during a ‘golden age’ of photojournalism.

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This cover shows an abstract painting of a fiery sun shining red, yellow and orange rays. The text reads: Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers, Peter Benson

Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers

Peter Benson

£9.99 – Reduced to £4.99

Fargo Hawkins dropped out of school. Now he is a gardener. He’s twenty years old, and works for Harry Swaine, an abusive butcher with a chain of shops on the south coast of England. After witnessing a fight between Harry and Anne (Harry’s wife) Fargo steals a car and together he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They have £9,653, a bag of apples, a penknife and three bottles of wine. Where will their journey take them, and what will they discover about themselves and each other along the way?

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This cover shows a photograph of James Roberts. The text reads: The Longest Farewell, James, Dementia and Me by Nula Suchet

The Longest Farewell

Nula Suchet

£12.99 – Reduced to £6.49

The Longest Farewell is Nula Suchet’s moving account of caring for her husband, James, after he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of early-onset dementia. Her account considers the effect this distressing disease had on both James and those around him as his condition worsened. Nula describes her initial shock and sadness, as well as her frustration and eventual feeling of guilt when faced with the difficult decision to place him in care. There, Nula meets Bonnie, another resident suffering from the same condition, and in turn her husband, broadcaster John Suchet. The similarities of Nula and John’s positions brings them closer together and after James and Bonnie have passed away, this heartbreaking story finds an unexpectedly happy ending.

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This cover shows a painting my Shani Rhys James of a child peering over the edge of a table where a jug balances on the edge of falling. The text reads: Women's Work. Edited Eva Salzman and Amy Wack.

Women’s Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English

Edited by Eva Salzman & Amy Wack

£14.99 – Reduced to £7.49

This landmark anthology is a touchstone of women’s experiences in the 21st century. Covering various topics from love, family and the body, to war, politics and displacement, Women’s Work brings together 250 of the best poems by women ever published. Eva Salzman’s introduction considers whether there is a need for such a book to exist, opening a conversation on what constitutes the literary canon. Exploring and illuminating women’s experiences and identities in all their rich and complex variety, this is a must-read anthology. 

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This cover shows a photograph of a barn own flying over a golden field, its wings illuminated against the dark background. The text reads: The Owl House. Daniel Butler.

The Owl House

Daniel Butler

£12.99 – Reduced to £6.49

For over twenty-five years Daniel Butler has lived in the Cambrian Mountains near Rhayader, absorbing the world around him and charting its changes, slow and rapid. His passion for keeping hawks was compounded by two wild birds, barn owls, which nested at his farm and became increasingly tame and familiar with him and his family. His relationship with the birds became the starting point for a pastoral exploration of mid-Wales and the flora and fauna which inhabit it, making this a rich and vividly written account of one of the most sparsely populated areas of Britain.

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