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Masque: this is not the story you think you know
Richly gothic and sumptuously detailed, Bethany W. Pope’s re-telling of Leroux’s classic The Phantom of the Opera reveals the passions and ambitions of the three central characters with a devastating clarity never seen before. Buy your copy now

Masque: this is not the story you think you know

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Jonathan Tulloch

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PRE-ORDER NOW – PUBLISHING 27 JULY ’Jonathan Tulloch gets the claustrophobia, and grey crippling littleness, in the physicalities of 1950s Britain and the grouchy, misanthropic mindset, with exactness and relish.’ – Ruth Padel</strong...

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The Chicken Soup Murder

Maria Donovan

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Maria Donovan’s debut novel, The Chicken Soup Murder, subverts the crime and murder mystery genres in a meditation on bereavement, friendship and the meaning of family. This emotionally involving coming-of-age narrative is told with resilience and humour by eleven-year-old Michael, a thoughtful boy who tests...

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The Women of Versailles

Kate Brown

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‘Dark and rich, The Women of Versailles is filled with political intrigue, sexual awakening, and the roots of revolution.’ – Peggy Riley‘[The Women of Versailles] demonstrates the power of great storytelling and...

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Writing on Water

Maggie Harris

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‘Heart-breaking and tender, Maggie Harris uses her powerful voice to explore hidden experiences’ – Disclaimer Magazine Maggie Harris’ stories are informed by the Caribbean, where she was born, and Britain where she has lived...

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My Falling Down House

Jayne Joso

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‘My Falling Down House is a masterpiece’ – Anne Janowitz, Emerita Professor, Dept of English, Queen Mary University of London‘This is a novel for anyone who has had a setback in life; for anyone who ever...

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Masque

Bethany W. Pope

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‘A novel richly layered with both gothic appeal and intellectual depth’ – Wales Arts Review‘A tale full of vigour and action: the author employs the genre of the Gothic novel with effortless mastery’ – Ofi...

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Ritual, 1969

Jo Mazelis

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Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, 2017‘Jo Mazelis knows that a riddling strangeness can yield its secret life to a story. The tales in this strong, pleasing, third collection hold and are transformed by that power.’ – Planet</p...

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Swimming on Dry Land

Helen Blackhurst

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‘Blackhurst’s prose is so vivid that the reader can almost taste the dust and feel the unrelenting heat’ – Books Ireland Set in a small fictional mining town in south-west Australia, Monica Harvey, a twelve-year-old English...

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The World, the Lizard and Me

Gil Courtemanche

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‘The writing is exquisite, the structure flawless’ – Literogo The World, the Lizard and Me is a novel of testament to the plight of children caught up in the civil wars of Central Africa. First published in 2009,...

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Star-Shot

Mary-Ann Constantine

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‘Star-Shot is one of those mysterious novels which slowly takes hold of you, turns you on your head, spins you around and makes you begin to question the world around you.’ – Wales Arts Review  Part fable, part...

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Dark Mermaids

Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

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Shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book Awards, New Writer of the Year 2016 ‘Lauppe-Dunbar marshals the facts of history deftly, and devastatingly, into her fictional characterscape. Her narrative is unflinching and darkly sensual&rsquo...

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Morlais

Alun Lewis

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Morlais is Alun Lewis’s unpublished novel from the late 1930s. The Lawrentian story of a young boy growing up in the poverty stricken industrial valleys of south Wales, it also reflects Lewis’s own experiences, particularly his search for self-knowledge and his conviction that he...

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Alun Lewis: Collected Stories

Alun Lewis

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Collected Stories reprints the war stories of Alun Lewis in their entirety for the first time. It also collects stories published in student magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian, together with several previously unseen. In bringing together all this material, editor Cary Archard shows...

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Limestone Man

Robert Minhinnick

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Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn’t write. His obsession is Lulu, that ‘orphan off the street’, his aboriginal  ‘green child’.But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become...

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Significance

Jo Mazelis

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First edition of Significance still available <a href="http://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/significance">here</a>.</strong... Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner. ‘Significance is...

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Terroir

Graham Mort

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Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2016 From England to Europe, Africa to South America, these stories from prize-winning short story writer Graham Mort explore relationships: father and child; man and wife; man and his environment. <br /...

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New Welsh Short Stories

Francesca Rhydderch

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‘All of these short stories crackle with creative skill.’ – The Short Story The best of contemporary Welsh short-story writing, New Welsh Short Stories offers a wide-ranging view of a country from new and established writers including...

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Advantages of the Older Man

Gwyneth Lewis

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A light-hearted novella exploring the strange case of a Swansea woman who is apparently possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. The woman, who works in the Dylan Thomas Centre, meets a rather different Dylan from the one she knows by repute, one who doesn’t really fit in with the ghosts of...

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Bilbao – New York – Bilbao

Kirmen Uribe

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Translated by Elizabeth Macklin. The day he knew he was going to die, Liborio Uribe took his young daughter in law to the Museum of Fine Arts to show her a picture. Liborio had spent his entire life at sea, like his son José, living out unforgettable adventures which would later fade into obscurity. Years after,...

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Sugar Hall

Tiffany Murray

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‘Sugar Hall glints and glimmers’ – David Mitchell, author of New York Times bestseller The Bone Clocks and Cloud AtlasEaster 1955. As Lilia Sugar scrapes the ice from the inside of the windows and the rust from the locks...

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Significance

Jo Mazelis

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2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner. ‘Significance is written with admirable storytelling skill that weaves captivating narrative tension, poetic density and exploration of ideas.’ Valerie Sirr, Wales Arts Review<br /...

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Love and Fallout

Kathryn Simmonds

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‘A blast from the past…beautifully told’ – Maureen Lipman ‘This is a five star read – one to take to bed at night and enjoy until the small hours… Kathryn Simmonds&rsquo...

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Six Pounds Eight Ounces

Rhian Elizabeth

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Hannah King is a liar, so everyone says. That means her stories of growing up in the Rhondda, as told in Six Pounds Eight Ounces, must be treated with caution. Debut novelist Rhian Elizabeth opens Hannah’s notebook up on her own little world of crazy friends and crazy family, and a crazy school...

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American Sycamore

Karen Fielding

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Gold Medal Winner: Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publisher Award 2015 The lives of congenial American fly-fisherman Billy and his younger sister Alice meander alongside the Susquehanna River in this offbeat coming-of-age novel of death, madness, and fishing...

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