Literary Fiction
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><strong>‘<em>A Simple Scale</em> is a work of self-assured persuasive power, and the resounding artistic statement of a writer who has truly arrived. It is...
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<p><strong>‘Six stellar short stories’ – <em>Buzz Magazine</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘A glorious book about everything important: love and sex and conflict and mortality. Meredith writes with such acuity, above all with such generosity.’ ...
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<p><strong>Winner of the Kunstnerprisen 2013.</strong></p><p><strong>‘As funny as a Nick Hornby, but with an existential seriousness that cannot be mistaken.’<br />– </strong><em><strong>Ekstra Bladet</strong></em></p><p><...
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<p><strong>‘A deftly-written and highly moving account of the effects of dementia’ – <em>Everybody’s Reviewing</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘A triumph... contemporary, funny, relevant and personal’ – <...
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<p>Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award, Fiction Category 2018</p><p><strong>‘This is a great story, told with sensitivity, and a first class an eye for comedy. A memorable read.’ – Rubery Book Award</strong></p><p><strong>‘Handled with great...
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<p><strong>‘Tulloch’s new novel is full of wit, smart observation and, yes, Philip Larkin.’ – <em>The TLS</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘A really clever look both at Larkin, at Hull, at the 1950s’ – Michael Arditti on BBC Radio 4...
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<p><strong>‘Dark and rich, The Women of Versailles is filled with political intrigue, sexual awakening, and the roots of revolution.’ – Peggy Riley</strong></p><p><strong>‘[<em>The Women of Versailles</em>] demonstrates the power of great storytelling and...
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<p><strong>‘Heart-breaking and tender, Maggie Harris uses her powerful voice to explore hidden experiences’ – Disclaimer Magazine</strong></p><p> </p><p>Maggie Harris’ stories are informed by the Caribbean, where she was born, and Britain where she has lived...
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<p><br /><strong>‘An unacknowledged gem: subtle, allusive, and deceptively ambitious.’ – <em>The New York Times</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘<em>My Falling Down House</em> is a masterpiece’ – Anne Janowitz, Emerita...
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<p><strong>‘A novel richly layered with both gothic appeal and intellectual depth’ – Wales Arts Review</strong></p><p><strong>‘A tale full of vigour and action: the author employs the genre of the Gothic novel with effortless mastery’ – Ofi...
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<p><strong>Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, 2017</strong></p><p><strong>‘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</strong></p...
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<p><strong>‘Blackhurst’s prose is so vivid that the reader can almost taste the dust and feel the unrelenting heat’ – Books Ireland</strong></p><p> </p><p>Set in a small fictional mining town in south-west Australia, Monica Harvey, a twelve-year-old English...
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<p><strong>‘The writing is exquisite, the structure flawless’ – Literogo</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>The World, the Lizard and Me</em> 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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<p><strong>‘<em>Star-Shot</em> 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 </strong></p><p> </p><p>Part fable, part...
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<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Cross Sports Book Awards, New Writer of the Year 2016<br />Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award, Fiction Category 2017</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>‘Lauppe-Dunbar marshals the facts of history deftly, and devastatingly, into her...
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<p><em>Morlais</em> 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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<p><em>Collected Stories</em> 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 <em>The Guardian</em>, together with several previously unseen. In bringing together all this material, editor Cary Archard shows...
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<p>Richard Parry is a painter who cannot paint, a writer who doesn’t write. </p><p>His obsession is Lulu, that ‘orphan off the street’, his aboriginal ‘green child’.</p><p>But on returning from Australia to his hometown he finds it has become...
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<p><strong>First edition of <em>Significance</em> still available <a href="http://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/significance">here</a>.</strong... Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>‘Significance is...
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<p>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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<p>Translated by Elizabeth Macklin.<br /><br />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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<p><strong>‘<em>Sugar Hall</em> glints and glimmers’ – David Mitchell, author of New York Times bestseller <em>The Bone Clocks </em>and <em>Cloud Atlas</em></strong></p><p>Easter 1955 and Britain waits for a hanging.<br />Dieter Sugar finds a...
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<p><strong>2015 Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winner.</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>‘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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<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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