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Win a copy of Black Shiver Moss
3 August 2017 - 09:50 am
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Black Shiver Moss, Graham Mort’s masterly tenth collection of poetry.To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st September:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup About Black Shiver Moss:Graham Mort writes beautifully about North Yorkshire, but in Black Shiver Moss new places are made familiar by Mort’s vivid descriptions and evocations: landscapes and peoples as distant as South Africa and as close as...
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Legend of the month, Robert Minhinnick: all books 30% off
1 August 2017 - 12:15 pm
Each month we are shining the spotlight on one outstanding author in celebration of Wales’ year of legends, and for August, this is the prize-winning author of poetry, essays and fiction, Robert Minhinnick.Minhinnick is the co-founder of the environmental organisation Sustainable Wales, and was formerly the editor of Poetry Wales. He has written for television, provided columns for The Western Mail and Planet, and published a number of books – short stories, poetry, novels, and...
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Martyn Crucefix explores the curiosities of the contemporary world in new poetry collection
26 July 2017 - 04:44 pm
Martyn Crucefix’s new collection, The Lovely Disciplines, is newly available from Seren.Composed with his characteristic grace and precision, these new poems step straight into a contemporary world where cursors blink, people Skype, consult Google Street View, make erotically-charged visits to the opticians, find ATM receipts in second-hand books of poetry. Such acuteness of observation is one of the ‘lovely disciplines’ in these vivid, exploratory poems that...
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Summer Sale: Seren books half price for one week only
17 July 2017 - 01:25 pm
Summer is here and with it comes our half price sale. For one week only, enjoy 50% off our books – everything from poetry, novels, short stories, art, biography and our enduringly popular Mabinogion books are included, so what are you waiting for? Have a browse, and find some wonderful new reading material for these long summer nights.Sale ends midnight, Sunday 23 July.    
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Dark Mermaids shortlisted for Rubery Award
11 July 2017 - 09:58 am
Anne Lauppe-Dunbar’s absorbing debut novel Dark Mermaids has been shortlisted for the 2017 International Rubery Book Awards, fiction category.Set one year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dark Mermaids follows West Berlin police officer Sophia, who is called upon to investigate the violent death of childhood friend Käthe. As she reluctantly delves into the sordid Stasi secrets of those she grew up with, Sophia uncovers a web of horrors about her own abusive past as a child...
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