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July 8, 2013
Marianne Burton’s She Inserts the Key Shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection
*/ Marianne Burton’s She Inserts the Key is on this years shortlist for the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection, whilst Christoper Meredith’s ‘The Record Keepers’, taken from his collection Air Histories has been highly commended.The…
June 14, 2013
‘Seren Shorts’ Ebook
Summer 2013 and Seren launches its first-ever ebook exclusive, containing nine selected short stories absolutely free! Available to download from June 15, Seren Shorts includes top stories from our two recent spring collections, All the Souls by Mary…
May 13, 2013
Rhian Edwards and Deryn Rees-Jones on shortlist for Wales Book of the Year 2013
Seren is celebrating after the announcement that two poets – Rhian Edwards and Deryn Rees-Jones – are shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Award, the poetry category of Wales Book of the Year 2013. Rhian Edwards is a winner of the John Tripp Award, and…
May 9, 2013
Francesca Rhydderch talks about ‘The Rice Paper Diaries’
Seren has produced a short film for The Rice Paper Diaries in which Francesca Rhydderch discusses the themes and inspiration behind her debut novel. The Rice Paper Diaries is a story of war told from the edges, with much of the action taking place…
April 30, 2013
The Price of Books
I am fortunate enough to work in both bookselling and publishing. Books and bookselling are my passion but time and time again, myself and fellow booksellers are faced with this very common scenario: Customer: have you got ………….. in stock? Bookseller…
April 25, 2013
‘Call Mother a Lonely Field’ shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013
Call Mother a Lonely Field by Liam Carson is shortlisted for The RSL Ondaatje Prize. The £10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize is awarded annually to a book of the highest literary merit, evoking the spirit of a place. Seren are the only Welsh press to be place…
April 16, 2013
Two New Short Story Collections
Think you don’t like short stories? Think again. Seren have published two fantastic short story collections this Spring, you need these on your reading shelf – now! Mary-Ann Constantine’s second collection All the Souls and Jaki McCarrick’s The Scatt…
April 4, 2013
R.S. Thomas 2013
Remembering R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) Celebrate R.S. Thomas’s centenary with this excellent volume that draws together 52 poems (4 previously unpublished) by Thomas to his wife, the distinguished artist Mildred E Eldridge – known as Elsi – from early…
March 20, 2013
There is life after Les Misérables…
If you’ve seen Les Mis and were left wanting more, a new ebook of Le Temps des Cerises could be just what you need. Le Temps des Cerises is set at the barricades of Paris in the 1870, just a few years after Victor Hugo penned his epic novel. The citi…
March 8, 2013
Happy International Women’s Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day, we are offering you a prize-winning poetry collection Berg for a fantastic price of £2.99 with FREE post. In this first collection from Hilary Menos, icebergs floating down the Thames jostle with transvestites…
March 7, 2013
Happy World Book Day
To celebrate World Book Day we are giving away a FREE copy of Glenda Beagan’s short story collection The Great Master of Ecstasy. Order online between 12pm-1pm and 2pm-3pm on Thursday 7th March 2013 to get your free copy* The Great Master of Ecstas…
February 28, 2013
New Short Story Collection ‘The Scattering’ out now
The Scattering is a debut fiction collection from prizewinning writer Jaki McCarrick. These skillfully crafted stories explore states of liminality: life on the Irish border, dual identities, emigration, being between states – certainty and doubt, co…
