This moving novel confronts grief and loss, whilst cleverly unravelling the central mystery – a death young Michael finds suspicious. Buy your copy now.
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‘A great one for curling up with ... but not necessarily with a mug of soup’
<p><em>Try the Wilderness First: Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-ffin</em> is the only study devoted to controversial artist Eric Gill’s artistic and religious community in the Black Mountains of Wales during the 1920s, told through the character and work of Gill himself and David Jones, two of Britain...
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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.’ – </strong><em><strong>Ekstra Bladet</strong></em></p><p>Miki, a Bosnian...
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<p><strong>‘[Sarah Philpott’s] reasoning to try vegan food is sound. Less cruelty, more deliciousness, and some more healthful fare. But this doesn’t come with a glare and crossed arms. It is for us to enjoy. It is vegan food, and it’s for everyone.’ – <em>Eat...
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<p>The door to the past has been locked to May but fragments of memories still remain: a boy running on the green, his fiery hair, a letter without a stamp, a secret she promised not to tell. She can’t piece together the past or even make sense of the present, but she revisits what she knows again and again. The boy, the letter,...
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<p><em>Way More Than Luck </em>is the vivid debut collection from the well-known young poet and critic Ben Wilkinson. The book opens with a series of poems that, with a remarkable clarity and sympathy, recall a battle with clinical depression: the “days when you weren’t anyone. Days gone undercover...&...
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<p><strong>‘Here is a rich and comforting voice next to you in the dark. Twenty eight poems so beguiling you know not whether they depict ancient folklore or an everyday occurrence in the next but one village’<br />– <em>Caught by the River</em></strong></p><p>...
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<p>This festive Christmas card features the winning poem from Seren’s 2017 Christmas Poetry Competition: ‘The Grey Mare’ by Mari Ellis Dunning, which takes its inspiration from the Welsh Mari Lwyd Christmas tradition.</p><p>Each pack contains five A5 cards and envelopes.</p><p>...
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<p>Poems need head, heart, and soul but this particular <em>Mslexia</em> Poetry Prize-winning pamphlet has an extra ingredient – a feminist kick. Bryony Littlefair is acutely aware of women’s lives and gives us mothers, daughters, grandmothers, friends and colleagues whose adventures...
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<p>This sparking selection of Christmas poems includes all those shortlisted for Seren’s inaugural Christmas Poetry Competition.</p><p>Poetry Editor Amy Wack was looking for poems full of feeling that resist cliché, that touch on classic ‘Christmas’ themes, but bring them to life...
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<p><strong>‘There are more, often hilarious, vignettes than points on the local map, every one of which is covered’ – <em>The Yorkshire Times</em></strong><br /> </p><p>In <em>Real Barnsley</em>, Ian McMillan delves into the past of the Barnsley area...
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<p><strong>‘Norena Shopland has lovingly trawled the Welsh archives for evidence of past lives lived in society’s shadows; the stories herein are both inspiring and heartbreaking in equal measure.’<br />– </strong><em><strong>Buzz Magazine</strong></em...
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<p><strong>‘E<span class="s1">ach poem in this collection is like a little torchlight ... I felt like it totally wrapped me up as a reader, and I really couldn’t put it down.’ – Jen Campbell, Sunday Times bestselling author</span></strong></p>...
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<p><strong>‘Rippled through with uncommon beauty’ – SkyLightRain</strong></p><p><strong>‘Dip into Walton’s jazzed-up version of the world and you will inevitably surface from the pages in a brighter hue.’ – Wales Arts Review</strong>...
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<h3><strong>Free download</strong></h3><p>Enjoy free samples from Seren’s vibrant and varied 2017 poetry list in this free PDF.</p><p>There are a number of poems from striking debut collections: ‘Lake Fever’ from Polly Atkin’s <a href="http://serenbooks.com/...
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<p><strong>‘Handled with great sensitivity, this has great comedy, exciting developments and very moving moments, right through until the nicely worked solution to the mystery.’ – <em>The Daily Mail</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>‘The Chicken Soup Murder...
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<p>In a case which shocked the country, Mandy Power, her bed-ridden mother and her two young daughters were battered to death in a ferocious attack during the early hours, in June 1999. The crime sparked the largest criminal investigation ever mounted in Wales yet to public dismay the police made little progress.</p><p>...
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<p><em>Welsh Verse</em>, Tony Conran’s milestone of translation, makes a welcome return. Formerly the <em>Penguin Book of Welsh Verse</em>, Seren has expanded the selection of what is the standard text of high quality translations of Welsh poetry stretching from the sixth century to the late twentieth...
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<p><strong>‘<em>The Lovely Disciplines</em> is a fascinating grove of acutely astute observations, where life and its slant significances flit, half-hidden, among the leaves. </strong>’<strong> – Mario Petrucci</strong></p><p><strong>‘Careful and...
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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>‘A book of great energy’ – Katherine Stansfield</strong></p><p><strong>‘Mort, with his startling exactitude and shrewd observation, leaves us “spellbound in stanzas”. Highly recommended.’ – WriteOutLoud</strong><...
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<p><strong>‘I must confess to being completely star-struck by this seminal work’ – <em>The Bay</em></strong></p><p> </p><p><br />In <em>Dark Land, Dark Skies</em>, astronomer Martin Griffiths subverts conventional astronomical...
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<p><strong>‘As bracing as a lungful of salt sea air’ – BBC <em>Wildlife</em> magazine</strong></p><p><strong>‘Alexander’s writing is captivating. It is experiential, fresh, and alive’ – <em>Wales Arts Review</em></...
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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>‘Full of wit, fun, talent’ – <em>Artemis Poetry</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘Blewitt draws us in with her keen eye for quirkiness, a good ear for dialogue and her riotous delight in all things absurd.’ – Maria Apichella, The...
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