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Welsh Gothic

Seren Welsh Gothic introduces readers to the darker side of fiction here in Wales, drawing on the folk traditions, superstitions and fears which uniquely speak to the endemic and perpetual jeopardy of the Welsh cultural experience. Discover overlooked voices of the past such as Elizabeth Walter, revisit classics of the genre such as Tiffany Murray’s Sugar Hall and fall in love with new books and writers we’ve yet to uncover in this exciting new series.

Seren Classics

Seren Classics is a series of books from and about Wales which help define the country, its people and its writers. It includes stories from Caradoc Evans, enfant terrible and father of Welsh writing in English, Brenda Chamberlain’s memoir of Bardsey Island, and titles by Wales’ major novelist, Emyr Humphreys, which hold a mirror to Wales and the Welsh while introducing the country to readers from outside.

Real Series

The Real Series is a set of illustrated offbeat guides to various places across the UK. Authors turn psychogeographers as they draw on research, history and their own memories of their chosen locale, to reveal the unnoticed, undiscovered, unexpected and unusual quirks of the places they love. From Glasgow to Gwynedd, Barnsley to Bloomsbury, locals, tourists and armchair travellers alike will enjoy in these lively guides.

New Stories from the Mabinogion

In New Stories from the Mabinogion ten authors present masterly modern re-workings of tales from the Celtic Mabinogion myth cycle. In a series both varied and wonderful, these novellas present fresh, unique retellings which keep the old tales at the heart of the new. From the orbit of Mars to the Tower of London, time travel to World War II, leading Welsh writers retell the medieval stories in entirely their own way. Series authors include Trezza Azzopardi, Russell Celyn Jones, Horatio Clare, Fflur Dafydd, Tishani Doshi, Niall Griffiths, Cynan Jones, Lloyd Jones, Gwyneth Lewis and Owen Sheers.

Holy Wells

Discoveries

Seren Discoveries is a series of translated literature which introduces the reader in English to leading authors often writing in minority languages or from peripheral cultures. It includes works translated from Albanian, Basque, Welsh, Québécois, Danish and Czech as well as from Francophone Haiti and Luxembourg.

Border Lines

Border Lines is a series of short biographies of writers, artists and composers who are from, or have found inspiration in, the Wales-England borderlands between Chester and Chepstow. This pioneering series included the first books about Bruce Chatwin, Dennis Potter, Mary Webb and Ellis Peters. Its volumes proved to be outstanding guides to this inspiring region, past and present, from Edward Elgar to Margiad Evans, W.H. Davies to Philip Wilson Steer.