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Gloriously gothic book launch: Bethany W. Pope in Cardiff

Gloriously gothic book launch Bethany W Pope Cardiff

Join us for a night of gothic romance as Bethany W. Pope reads from Masque, her rich and psychological re-telling of Gaston Leroux’s classic, The Phantom of the Opera.

The event is at the new Octavo’s Book Cafe & Wine Bar in Cardif Bay, Wednesday 22 June, 5:00-7:00pm, and is free for all to attend.
Bring your friends, have a glass of something decadent, and listen to the story unfold.

Bethany W. Pope launch Cardiff

Tell us you’ll be there! Click ‘going’ on the Facebook event page or RSVP by email to: [email protected]

About Masque:
Masque is a richly gothic retelling of Gaston Leroux’s phantom of the opera story by debut novelist Bethany W Pope. Centre stage is promising young singer Christine, who, despite being devoted to her art, attracts the attention of both the Phantom (Erik), and rich Parisian theatre owner Raoul.

The intensely ambitious Christine finds herself caught between the twin evils of the Phantom’s murderous pursuit of artistic perfection and Raoul’s ‘romantic’ vision of her as a bourgeois wife. Her own desire to follow her operatic career becomes her guiding light, but none of the three leading characters can control the directions in which their passions lead them, while the beautiful masked skull of the opera house itself looms large over their respective fates. The resulting mix of love, rage, art and murderous intent, is explosive.

Love, lust, adventure, romance, and the monstrous nature of unfulfilled creativity await you here.

Everyone wears a mask. Look beneath it, if you dare.

 

 

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Nia Williams, ‘The Colour of Grass’, Book Signing

Nia Williams author of new fantastic novel, The Colour of Grass, is holding a book signing at Waterstones in Cardiff on Saturday 21st May 2011 at 1pm. 

To find out more about Nia Williams the author or the novel’s synopsis, there is information on her if you click the tagged ‘Nia Williams’ or check the seren site – www.serenbooks.com – to read more about her and her work.

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Pascale Petit Exciting US Book Tour

Seren is proud to announce that Pascale Petit is touring What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo in the US!
Petit’s collection of poetry was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize 2010 and long listed for Wales Book of the Year 2011.

Petit’s itinerary is;

Saturday 30 April, 6.00pm.  Cornelia St Café, NYC.
Mark Doty & Pascale Petit
29 Cornelia Street, New York, NY 10014
Phone: 212 989 9319. Email: [email protected] Website: www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Thursday 5 May (tbc). Metta Theatre, Taos, New Mexico.
Veronica Golos, Andrea Watson and Pascale Petit reading for Cinco de Mayo
1470 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, El Prado, New Mexico 87529

Monday 9 May, 7.30pm. Moonday Poetry at Village Books, LA.
Lois P. Jones & Pascale Petit (illustrated reading)
1049 Swarthmore Ave., Pacific Palisades, California
Phone: (310) 454 4063 Email: [email protected] Website: www.moondaypoetry.com

Tuesday 10 May, 7.30pm. Poetry Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California.
Rebecca Forest and Pascale Petit
Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz
Phone: (831) 464-8983 Email: [email protected] Website: www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz

For more information on Pascale Petit and her poetry collection click the tag ‘Pascale Petit’ or read more on our website www.serenbooks.com

Good luck and congratulations to Pascale Petit!

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Bruce Cardwell Launches Noteworthy – Machynlleth

Bruce Cardwell will exhibit a selection of pictures from the Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music project at Moma Wales. Mavis Nicholson will open the exhibition at 12pm Saturday 2nd April 2011.

Bruce Cardwell will then celebrate the publication of Noteworthy at 1pm at Y Tabernacl auditorium and will be signing books early afternoon. Robin Huw Bowen will be playing the triple harp, Bowen’s influence on the worlds of Welsh folk music and harping has been far-reaching.

For more information please visit www.momawales.org.uk or call 01654 703355

Bruce Cardwell author of Hoofpicks: Photographs of Horse in Wales, is also celebrating a birthday concert at Y Tabernaci, 8th April which includes an excellent programme of Celtic Music.

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David Hurn and John Fuller present ‘Writing the Picture’

Join Seren in celebrating Writing the Picture with authors David Hurn and John Fuller Thursday April 7th 2011, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 7.30pm and Tuesday 12th April 2011 at the Drill Hall, Chepstow. Admission £2.00, redeemable against purchase at the event.

David Hurn, well known for his Magnum photographs and the iconic Sean Connery image as James Bond.  John Fuller is an acclaimed poet and novelist, author of fourteen volumes of poetry and several works of fiction including “Flying to Nowhere” shortlisted for the Booker and winner of the Whitbread Award.

Writing the Picture is a rare and fascinating collaboration. Even more rare, it is a collaboration in which the poet responds to images, rather than a photographer or artists ‘illustrating’ a poem.

“This brave volume offers a proud collaboration between two masters of their chosen arts.”  The Independent

If you are unable to attend this event, ‘Writing the Picture’ is available at www.serenbooks.com – join the book club and receive 20% off all purchases.

This event is supported by Academi
www.academi.org

We look forward to seeing you in Cardiff and Chepstow!

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‘The Colour of Grass’ book launch

Nia Williams The Colour of Grass book launch

You are invited to celebrate the publication of The Colour of Grass by Nia Williams at George & Delila Café, 104 Crowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE  April 5th 2011 5.30pm

Who did she think she was? Helen’s family is falling apart. There will be no answers from her husband anymore and she can’t communicate with her grown-up daughter. She’s not sure of anything anymore. So she turns to the relatives: the ones who are dead and gone.
Straight away she finds herself floundering in a new world of friends, secrets, enemies and family history enthusiasts. Clandestine meetings, a mugging, and the surprisingly tragic story of her mystery grandmother – all these weave themselves into Helen’s present and past.

With family history flourishing online, on TV and in magazines, The Colour of Grass is a gentle and touching story of families past and present, the identities we create for life’s unexpected connections and ourselves.

Refreshments available.

Seren hopes to see as many of you that can make it!