• Fargo Hawkins dropped out of school. Now he's a gardener for Harry Swaine. After witnessing a fight between Harry and Anne (his wife) Fargo steals a car and together he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They have £9,653, a bag of apples, a penknife and three bottles of wine. An incandescent Harry, a firm of private detectives and their emotions chase them across the country. But as they head west in pursuit of happiness, what lies at the end of their journey? Available now.

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  • 1994, Iris and Victoria are pen friends. Iris writes about her life with her family in Paris. Victoria is in a refugee camp in Goma having fled the genocide in Rwanda in which thousands are being killed. One day Victoria’s letters stop, and Iris is told she has been moved. Twenty years later, how have the lives of these two women who shared a moment in time changed? As the pressure of long-kept family secrets builds, will they ever find each other? Available now.

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Nathan Munday
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<p>1792. Nantucket whalers are invited to found the port of Milford Haven in Wales. What does the arrival of these hardy Quakers &ndash; immigrants to America a century before &ndash; mean for the local people? And what is the meaning of the beached whale that preceded them? Two cultures rub against each other and distrust grows,...
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Diana Powell
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<p>Farmer&rsquo;s daughter Beth is a child of nature, utterly at one with the rugged landscape on which she tends the farm&rsquo;s sheep, in a remote valley in the Black Mountains. But change is coming. The modern world arrives with the construction of a reservoir in a neighbouring valley. Part of the mountain is taken away to build...
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Euron Griffith
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<p>Eager for glory as an explorer in the further reaches of the Empire Hilary Durwood&nbsp;is duped into undertaking a semi-mythical mission, in semi-mythical lands. After many adventures and setbacks he returns to Victorian London destitute, dismayed at having killed someone, and seeking revenge against the Gentleman Explorer who set...
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<h3>No longer on offer but both of Peter&rsquo;s novels are available individually</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>The Stromness Dinner</em></strong></p><p>Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He&rsquo;s based in&nbsp;Bermondsey&nbsp;but no job&...
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Leslie Scase
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<p><strong>&ldquo;A book which well justifies a description as a good read, with more twists than the river Severn.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ndash; Nation Cymru</strong></p><p><strong>&ldquo;...another fast paced, thrilling romp through the criminal underworld of Victorian Society.&rdquo; &ndash...
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This cover shows a painting of a woman looking toward the reader. She has short hair and is wearing a pink strappy top with a heart on it. The text reads: Scar Tissue. Clare Morgan.
Clare Morgan
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<p>In a world of uncertainties, how do human beings navigate the increasingly complex interrelations of love, desire, home, community? Each story in <em>Scar Tissue</em> offers a fresh perspective on the nature of individual existence in all its transient vulnerability. From deep country on the Welsh borders to the metropolitan...
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<h3>Book bundle &ndash; Buy as a set for &pound;15.00</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In a world of uncertainties, how do human beings navigate the increasingly complex interrelations of love, desire, home, community? In her short story collections&nbsp;<a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/...
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Peter Benson
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<p>Fargo Hawkins dropped out of school. Now he is a gardener. He&rsquo;s twenty years old, and works for Harry Swaine, an abusive butcher with a chain of shops on the south coast of England. After witnessing a fight between Harry and Anne (his wife) Fargo steals a car and together he, Anne and a dog called Radar go on the run. They have...
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Sophie Buchaillard
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<h3>Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2023</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1994, Iris and Victoria are pen friends. Iris writes about her life with her family in Paris. Victoria is in a refugee camp in&nbsp;Goma&nbsp;having fled the genocide in&nbsp;Rwanda&nbsp;in which thousands are being killed. One day...
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Tony Curtis
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<h3>Shortlisted for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&ldquo;A tour de force... a highly readable novel and a splendid union of documentation and imaginative reconstruction, as well as a convincing rendering of different voices. I was enthralled&hellip;&rdquo; &ndash...
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Hammad Rind
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<p><em>International shipping available at checkout</em></p><p><strong>&ldquo;Easily the most remarkable work of fiction to come out of Wales in a thousand moons.&rdquo; &ndash; Jon Gower</strong></p><p><strong><em>&ldquo;Four Dervishes</em>&nbsp;is a...
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Jayne Joso
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<p><strong>&ldquo;...written in pellucidly clear prose and wrought like pieces of fine porcelain, unfussy in their language and measured in their telling to the point of being, well, serene.&rdquo; &ndash; <em>Nation.Cymru</em></strong></p><p><em>Japan&nbsp;Stories</em>&nbsp...
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Leslie Scase
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<p>In this new mystery Inspector Chard is confronted with another murder in bustling Victorian Pontypridd. On the face of it the case appears unremarkable, even if it isn&rsquo;t obviously solvable, but following new leads takes Chard into unexpected places. A second murder, a sexual predator, industrial espionage and a mining disaster...
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Christopher Meredith
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<p><em>&ldquo;Meredith at his darkest and funniest. This is the work of a master.&rdquo; &ndash;&nbsp;<strong>Tom&nbsp;Bullough</strong></em></p><p><em>&ldquo;The most wry, witty and wicked&nbsp;novel I expect to read this year.&rdquo; &ndash;&nbsp;<strong...
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Christopher Meredith
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<p><strong>&lsquo;To publish two such accomplished and deeply rewarding books simultaneously is a remarkable achievement.&rsquo; &ndash; <em>Planet</em></strong></p><p>Award-winning novelist and poet Christopher Meredith&nbsp;publishes&nbsp;two new books simultaneously. Order them both...
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Peter Benson
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<p>Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He&rsquo;s based in Bermondsey but no job&rsquo;s too small, no distance too great. So when he&rsquo;s asked to do some work on a house in Orkney, he loads the van with paint, tools and sandwiches, and takes off. He gets nervous around farm animals and large ships, and he&...
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Angela Graham
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<h3>Longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2021</h3><p>A city burns in a crisis &minus; because the status quo has collapsed and change must come. Every value, relationship and belief is shaken and the future is uncertain.</p><p>In the twenty-six stories in <em>A City Burning</em>, set in Wales...
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Euron Griffith
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<p><em>When he smiled it really did feel as if the chilly Caernarfonshire wind had stopped for a few seconds and as if the place had suddenly got warmer.</em></p><p>When Miriam fell in love with Padraig life seemed simple. But soon she discovered that love is a treacherous business. Everything changed when she met...
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John Davies
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<p>The short story has long been a popular form with writers and readers in Wales. &nbsp;<em>The Green Bridge</em> collects work by 25 of the country&rsquo;s foremost writers of the twentieth century in an entertaining and varied anthology. Horror, satire, humour, war, tales of the aristocracy, of navvies, love, and...
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Alexandra Ford
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<p><strong>&lsquo;Ford&rsquo;s book is as much about the retreading of history as it is about history itself. It&rsquo;s about the search for the truth as a way of understanding the truth of ourselves. She is careful not to forget the small kindnesses and cruelties that live within the sweep of world forces. This book is...
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Robert Minhinnick
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<p><strong>Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize</strong></p><p>Nia Vine is about to fulfil her dream of exploring an unmapped&nbsp;cave system. With her will go two friends who were brought up in the same seaside town.&nbsp;&nbsp;These companions are international travellers, but Nia, who has recently...
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Leslie Scase
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<p>1893: A train to the bustling industrial town of Pontypridd crashes, and in the chaos of the disaster a killer covers up a violent murder. Two years later Thomas Chard&rsquo;s arrival to take up his post as inspector in the burgeoning police force coincides with the grisly discovery of a body in the River Taff. Chard grapples with the...
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