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Blue Sky July on Wales Book of the Year Long List
"A tour-de-force that is taking the literary world by storm," The Daily MailSeren is delighted to announce that Blue Sky July has been included on the long list for the Wales Book of the Year Award 2008 …
Paul Henry becomes Welsh Academy Fellow
Seren is proud to announce that the poet Paul Henry has been made a Fellow of The Welsh Academy, the Society for Writers in Wales. Fellowship of the Academy is a lifetime honour which is offered to those who have made a significant contribution to the literatures of Wales. To read more about Paul you can visit his Writers of Wales by clicking here.Seren Authors at the Hay Festival
Several Seren authors will be at the Guardian Hay Festival this year, withCeri Thomas talking about Ernest Zobole, Peter Finch performing his poetry,
Tony Curtis giving the Warton Poetry Lecture, Geraint Talfan Davies and
Patrick Hannan in conversation, and much much more. Come on down to the
Literature in Wales stand to see some of our publications, and to meet Mavis
Nicholson and new Poetry Wales editor Zoë Skoulding. Click HERE for full details, or visit the Hay Festival website to buy tickets for these events.
Special Offer on Poetry & Criticism Titles
We´re welcoming in Spring with a fabulous offer on two excellent poetry and criticism titles, After the First Death and Wales at War both edited by Tony Curtis. Buy these two titles for £19.99, which gives a saving of £5 in total.
CLICK HERE TO BUY THESE TITLES
CLICK HERE TO BUY THESE TITLES
New & Forthcoming Titles
Everything is Sinister
David Llewellyn
£7.99 Paperback(ISBN:978-185411-469-3)
Everything is Sinister by David Llewellyn is a darkly humorous novel with a biting take on the modern cult of celebrity and its potentially horrific consequences. Ed Raynes is the showbiz correspondent for Britain´s most popular tabloid, The Voice of the People. In the sweltering, tinderbox summer of 2010, with the Olympic village construction site on his doorstep, Ed guards a shocking secret …
“Destined to become a cult book, Llewellyn offers conspiracies of the media world and scepticism of the future of humanity.” Buzz Magazine, April 2008
Everything is Sinister will be launched on Tuesday 13th May at The Green Carnation, Greek Street, Soho and Tuesday 20th May at Waterstones Cardiff. For further details contact Jen Campbell at Seren.
Fiction
Qwerty
Paul Groves
£7.99 Paperback(ISBN:978-1-85411-459-4)
´Paul Groves is a deft storyteller, genial ironist, and brilliant portraitist. His poems are superb.´ William Oxley
This fresh collection contains not only the type of ironic, sly, and coolly witty poems we have come to expect from this writer but also material with quirky turns, melancholic hints, and playful flourishes. This book will delight existing fans and recruit many new ones …
Poetry
Real Swansea
Nigel Jenkins
£9.99 Paperback(ISBN:978-1-85411-459-484-6)
Welcome to the breezily resurgent, ´ugly, lovely´ city of Swansea. Once a dynamic port and the metallurgical capital of the world, it was later famous for a vibrant artistic life, which included poets Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins, artists Alfred Janes and Ceri Richards and composer Daniel Jones. What does it offer now, in post-industrial Wales?
Series Editor, Peter Finch.
General
Real Aberystwyth
Niall Griffiths
£9.99 Paperback(ISBN:978-1-85411-447-1)
Aberystwyth: two languages, a university, a farming community, a port turned marina, a holiday resort, seat of the National Library of Wales and the Welsh Books Council, home to writers and spies. It is a singular place composed of any number of conflicting and complimentary things, with a medieval beginning, Victorian heyday and contemporary reputation as a cultural powerhouse in the guise of a market town …
Series Editor, Peter Finch.
Series Editor, Peter Finch.
General
If You Fall I Will Catch You
Eifion Jenkins
£7.99 Paperback(ISBN:ISBN 978-85411-456-3)
If You Fall I Will Catch You is a futuristic fantasy by debut novelist, Eifion Jenkins. Thinking the unthinkable – knowing the unknowable. Gwidion is a boy on the verge of manhood to whom 9/11 means nothing. But the psychic shock waves of an event that once shook the world are still felt in his village, all that is left of what was once Wales …
If you missed seeing If You Fall I Will Catch You on Wedi 3 this week, you can watch it again by clicking here and following the link for Wednesday.
Fiction
Kyffin: A Figure in the Welsh Landsacpe
Ian Skidmore
£12.99 Paperback(ISBN:978-185411-4631)
Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) can fairly be claimed to be the most famous, and perhaps best-loved, artist from Wales in the post-war period. His distinctive paintings were eagerly sought after by collectors, and for many assumed an almost iconic status as expressions of the Welsh landscape and of ‘Welshness’.
Art
