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<p>In this, her twelfth collection, noted poet Sheenagh Pugh steps into a new, northern landscape, the Shetland Islands, with poems steeped in the wilder weathers and views of rugged coastlines, sweeping sea-vistas and the hardy historical characters who have inhabited these lands. There is a lovely pared-down spareness, and elegiac...
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<p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>‘A blast from the past…beautifully told’ – Maureen Lipman<br /><br />‘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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<p> Mir Mahfuz Ali is an exceptional new voice in British Poetry. A native of what is now Bangladesh, Mahfuz grew up during the difficult period of the early 1970’s when the region was struck, first by a devastating cyclone, then by a particularly vicious civil war. As a boy, Mahfuz witnessed atrocities and writes about...
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<p><em>The Hitting Game </em>is the first collection of poems by the London-based poet Graham Clifford. The vibrancy of the poet’s voice and the immediacy of his claims upon our attention are clear.<br /><br />Characters first appear as ‘you’ in ‘Obvious...
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<p> Hannah King is a liar, so everyone says. That means her stories of growing up in the Rhondda, as told in <em>Six Pounds Eight Ounces</em>, 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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<p>The title poem of this new collection of poems by Carolyn Jess-Cooke: ‘Boom!’ enacts the moment when the new baby arrives in the family ‘like a hand grenade’. ‘Becoming a mother changed me in every single way,’ says the author, ‘my first child – born in...
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<p><strong>Gold Medal Winner: Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publisher Award 2015</strong></p><p> </p><p>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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<p>In <em>Imagined Sons</em> Carrie Etter has written a book of vivid, heartbreaking poems on the experience of giving up a child for adoption. A prize-winning author, lecturer, critic and popular blogger, Etter imagines the possible destinies for the child and presents us with various scenarios from the tragic to the...
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<p><br /><strong>“Joyful and dynamic – a collection that’ll make you laugh and make you think” – Costa Poetry Book Award Judges </strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Costa Poetry Prize 2014 <br />Shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh...
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<p><em>Island of Lightning</em> is the latest book of travel essays by the prizewinning Robert Minhinnick, poet, novelist, translator, cultural commentator and environmentalist. In it he travels from his home in south Wales to Argentina, China, Finland, Iraq, Tuscany and Piemonte, Malta, New York, Zagreb, Lithuania and the...
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<p>Fountainville is a strange, lonely town on the edge of everywhere, with its own healing secrets, as revealed by Luna, assistant to Begum, the Lady of the Fountain, in this retelling of celtic Mabinogion myth by poet and novelist Tishani Doshi. Under their care the town flourishes, but when the mysterious Mr Knight arrives at their house...
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<p>Enid wants a dog and wants to be a spy, but listening in on adult conversations doesn’t seem to bring her any nearer to understanding their troubled world. For all that,when times get tough and she has to stay with the Erbins, particularly her rich and spoilt cousin Geraint, she has plenty of verbal ammunition to help her fight...
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<p><em>The Visitations</em> is the new book of poems by Kathryn Simmonds, the follow-up to her Forward Prize-winning debut,<em> </em><a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/sunday-skin-launderette"><em>S... at the Skin Launderette</em></a>. As with her previous collection,...
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<p><br /><strong><em>"A brilliant new voice in British poetry whose debut is rich with Welsh wit, lyricism and spirituality. A little gem, full of promise." – </em>Dan Jones, London Evening Standard</strong><br /><br /><em>The Claims Office </em>is the...
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<p><strong>‘By perusing Skoulding’s exhibitions, we, her readers, reconnect with a disregarded, integral part of our life’s cacophony.’ – DURA</strong></p><p> </p><p>The disappearing sounds of Zoë Skoulding’s new collection may be either...
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<p> </p><div><br />‘Disturbance is a precise, pained, and wondrous book.’<br /> ...
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<p><em>"Read it for its vivid portrait of a childhood characterised by parental 'benign neglect', its flow of bravura anecdotes, and its entertaining glimpses of the Hughes family, their relatives and famous friends." - Richard Poole<br /><br />Everything I Have Always Forgotten </em>...
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<h3>2022 Reprint Now Available</h3><h4>Finch's companion volume <em><a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/edging-city">Edging the City</a>,</em> in which he walks the Cardiff border, is available <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/edging-city...
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<p>Ibrahim is walking from Cardiff to London. He has his reasons and he’s not doing it for charity. What he hasn’t counted on is bumping into seventy-five-year-old cockney Reenie doing the same thing, before he’s even reached Newport.</p><p>With her life’s luggage in a shopping trolley,...
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<p><strong>‘Her poems bring as powerful a sense of farm, animal and land as the best work of Ted Hughes.’ – PN Review</strong></p><p><strong>‘</strong><strong>Robust, relevant, witty, technically adept writing.’ – Artemis Poetry</strong...
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<p>Port au Prince, Haiti. The police roam the streets and no-one is safe. Fignolé, musician, political radical is missing. His sisters Joyeuse and Angelique search for their young brother amid the colourful bustle, urban deprivation and political tension of the city. Eventually they will find him, but in the process they will also have found...
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<p>Christopher Meredith’s <em>Air Histories</em> starts in the Stone Age and ends in the future. It’s marked by formal diversity and a wide range of subjects, with the personal alongside the impersonal and the experimental alongside well-known forms, as well as including some translations from the Welsh....
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<p><strong>Winner of Wales Book of the Year, English Language Fiction 2014</strong><br />Francesca Rydderch has been shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award 2014<br /><br />This is a story of war told from the edges. Four interweaving accounts relate the intimate havoc wrought by military conflict on...
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<p>This is a startlingly good debut by Marianne Burton. Often dark, but with a sharply concise and compelling style, these poems draw you in with a ‘look at this!’ urgency. This is a collection of voices: dodos and wallpaper chant obsessively, a cheese weeps for the calf whose milk it stole, a woman turned into...
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