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World Book Day is now in its 20th year, and once more we are celebrating all things literary.
We want the world to discover our fantastic authors, and to help a few of you do just that, we’ve left a selection of Seren books in our favourite independent Cardiff cafés for lucky people to find and keep.
If you find yourself in Cardiff today then keep your eyes peeled – you might well find a Seren book hiding somewhere near you! Take it, enjoy it, and pass it on to someone new to enjoy afterwards to spread the World Book Day love.
 
 
 
 

Poet Polly Atkin’s ‘Hope Cove’, one of the poems in her soon-to-be released debut collection, Basic Nest Architecture, has been shortlisted for the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize 2017.
Judge Mary Noonan read over 2,200 entries before selecting the shortlist, and the poems selected will be published in an upcoming issue of Southward. You can see the full list of prize-winners and shortlisted poems on the Munster Literature Centre website.
Polly’s debut Basic Nest Architecture is publishing on 27 February, and is available to pre-order now from our website (£9.99). The collection follows Polly’s Mslexia Prize-winning pamphlet, Shadow Dispatches, and her Michael Marks nominated Bone Song. Atkin has already built up a loyal readership for her complex, intelligent, densely metaphorical lyrics, often inspired by the beauties of the Lake District where she has made her home for a decade. 
 
 
 
 

Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Jo Mazelis’ award-winning novel, Significance.
To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st March:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup
 
Significance was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner, 2015. Up for grabs in this giveaway is a copy of the new edition of the book, printed to commemorate the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered announcement.
About Significance:Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She’s cut and dyed her hair and bought new clothes, but she’s only got as far as a small town in northern France when her flight is violently cut short. When Inspector Vivier and his handsome assistant Sabine Pelat begin their investigation, the chance encounters of her last days take on a new significance.Lucy’s death, like a stone thrown into a pool, sends out far-reaching ripples, altering the lives of people who never knew her as well as those of her loved ones back home.
 
The winner of this giveaway will be chosen at random from all our email subscribers on 1st March 2017, so make sure you sign up to Seren News before this deadline to be in with a chance of winning.
Feeling generous? Why not invite your friends to enter, by signing up using the link below:http://serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup
 
 
 

Ivy Alvarez’s poetry collection Disturbance has been named by Courtney LeBlanc as one of her best books of 2016, alongside authors such as Stephen King and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. You can see the full list on Courtney’s blog, Word Perv.
 
About Disturbance:
Disturbance is a novel in verse by Ivy Alvarez that chronicles a multiple homicide, a tragic case of domestic violence, where a family was gunned down by the husband and father. The book features poems in a kaleidoscope of voices from all the characters involved. We first meet the family itself and witness how the father’s controlling attitude gradually escalates into violence. Then we get the aftermath: the authorities, police and neighbours, who all might have helped to prevent this tragedy. This is a very dark book, but a courageous one, ultimately about evil and its presence in our everyday lives.