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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’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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<p><em>“Meredith at his darkest and funniest. This is the work of a master.” – <strong>Tom Bullough</strong></em></p><p><em>“The most wry, witty and wicked novel I expect to read this year.” – <strong...
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<p>Award-winning novelist and poet Christopher Meredith publishes two new books simultaneously. Order them both as a set for the discounted price of £15.00. </p><p>Christopher Meredith’s new poetry collection <em>Still</em>, uses the title word as a fulcrum to...
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<h3>Longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2021</h3><p>A city burns in a crisis − 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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<p>Ed Beech is one half of Beech Building Services. He’s based in Bermondsey but no job’s too small, no distance too great. So when he’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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<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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<p>The short story has long been a popular form with writers and readers in Wales. <em>The Green Bridge</em> collects work by 25 of the country’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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<p><strong>Give the perfect gift this Christmas and treat yourself or someone special to a gift-wrapped parcel of three fiction books, carefully chosen from the fantastic Seren list.</strong></p><p>Each mystery bundle is terrific value at only £9.99, and contains three fiction...
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<p><strong>‘Ford’s book is as much about the retreading of history as it is about history itself. It’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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<p><strong>Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize</strong></p><p>Nia Vine is about to fulfil her dream of exploring an unmapped cave system. With her will go two friends who were brought up in the same seaside town. These companions are international travellers, but Nia, who has recently...
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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’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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<p><strong>‘With this tender story of trauma in a child's life, brimming with sympathy and insight, Jayne Joso hymns the compassion of strangers and the consolations of the sea.’ – Horatio Clare </strong></p><p><strong>‘A beautifully written and masterfully...
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<p><strong>LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI PRIZE</strong></p><p><strong>‘Beautifully told and beautifully written’ – Philip Reeve (author of Mortal Engines)</strong></p><p><strong>‘An impressive and compelling work...
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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>Longlisted for <em>The Guardian</em>’s Not the Booker prize</strong></p><p><strong>‘A deftly-written and highly moving account of the effects of dementia’ – <em>Everybody’s Reviewing</em></strong></p...
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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 eye for comedy. A memorable read.’ – Rubery Book Award</strong></p><p><strong>‘Handled with...
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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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