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July 4, 2011
Wales Book of the Year 2011 Ceremony, Cardiff
Wales Book of the Year 2011 Ceremony is taking place on the 7th July 2011 at 7pm Cineworld, Cardiff. Seren poet Pascle Petit is one of the three authors to be shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011 prize. What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frid…
June 30, 2011
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 un…
June 29, 2011
Wales Book of the Year 2011 Ceremony
Wales Book of the Year 2011 Ceremony tickets arrived in the post this morning. The ceremony is to be held in Cineworld, Cardiff next Thursday (7th July) beginning at 7.30pm. Literature Wales have announced that tickets sold out in a record time. Sere…
June 23, 2011
‘The Captain’s Tower’ – The Bluecoat, Liverpool
Thursday 23rd June 7.30 – 9.30pm The Bluecoat, Liverpool. Tickets £5/ £4. www.bluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/1015 For lovers of Bob Dylan’s music and lyrics, David Wolley and Phil Bowen launch and read their anthology, co-edited with Damian Fur…
June 20, 2011
Launch of The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness will be launched on Wednesday 22nd June, 6pm at the Ogilvie Theatre Foyer, St. Anne’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford. Refreshments. RSVP to Seren 01656 663018 or [email protected] An intricately plotte…
June 17, 2011
Forthcoming Title: ‘Jonah Jones: An Artist’s Life’
To be released on 18th July 2011. Author: Peter Jones Sculptor, painter, letter cutter, stained glass artist, novelist, travel writer, academic and administrator; Jonah Jones (1919-2004) was a twentieth century renaissance man. Born near Newcastle in…
June 17, 2011
Forthcoming Title: ‘Second Chance’
To be released July 18th 2011. Author: Sian James Kate Rivers has it all; London life, successful acting career, and caring lover Paul. So why, when she is unexpectedly recalled to the Welsh village where she grew up, are both her past and her presen…
June 17, 2011
Sian James
Twice-winner of the Yorkshire Post Prize, Sian James is the author of nine novels, including A Small Country and most recently, Return to Hendre Ddu. She was born near Llandysul, Cardiganshire and educated at Aberystwyth. Books by Sian James A Small…
June 17, 2011
Forthcoming Title: ‘Evan Walters: Moments of Vision’
To be released 1st July 2011. Author: Barry Plummer (ed) Evan Walters ( 1893-1951) is perhaps the great hidden secret of Welsh painting in the twentieth century, an outstanding artist who awaits discovery beyond Wales. This book presents, for the fir…
June 17, 2011
Barry Plummer (ed)
Barry Plummer is an independent researcher of Welsh art. He was awarded a doctorate in 2006 from the University of Wales for his thesis on the life and work of Evan Walters.He has a degree in Visual Art and studied the history of art as a post- gradu…
June 17, 2011
Robert Seatter
After studying English at Oxford University, Robert Seatter worked variously as an EFL teacher in Italy and France, an actor, a journalist, in publishing and broadcasting. He lives in London where he now works for the BBC. His poetry has been widely…
June 17, 2011
Forthcoming Title: ‘Writing King Kong’
To be released on 20th June 2011. Author: Robert Seatter Writing King Kong explores the way we write the world, and reinvent it both for our own development and delusion. From an elliptical self-help manual to a telephone party line where we become ‘…
