Books
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Paul GrovesThis 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 …
Kyffin: A Figure in the Welsh Landsacpe
Ian SkidmoreKyffin 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’.
Ernest Zobole: A Life in Art
Ceri Thomas
Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Kathryn SimmondsA Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Quietly persuasive and formally adept, the poems in Kathryn Simmonds´ first collection engage with both the quotidian and the transcendental…
Last Bird Singing
Allan Bush“Walking Clifton Street, in any direction, is like going to your own funeral.”
A blacker than black Cardiff novel by first time novelist Allan Bush. Last Bird Singing is an extraordinary and stunning evocation of one man’s inner life, dark, haunting and bitterly true. The walls, pubs and streets of Wales’ capital city loom through the blackness of an intense, brilliantly realised story of loneliness and loss …
“A beautifully bleak ode to Cardiff…poetic, visceral, dark and rain-soaked. I’ve found a new hero in 70-year old Roath resident Allan Bush”. Buzz Magazine, April 2008
If You Fall I Will Catch You
Eifion JenkinsIf 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.
Martha Jane and Me
Mavis NicholsonToday, television interviewer Mavis Nicholson regularly rubs shoulders with the famous.As a girl in south Wales in the thirties and forties, she dreaded her friends finding out how closely she rubbed shoulders with Martha Jane, the grandmother whose large feather bed she had to share until she left home.
"Mavis Nicholson's warm heart and fierce intelligence are stamped on every page… A delightful book.” – Sue Townsend
Mavis will be appearing on the Paul O'Grady show on Wednesday 22nd May, 5pm on Channel 4 - tune in!
Real Wrexham
Grahame Davies“Grahame Davies has a lively mind and a fine turn of phrase, which he puts to good purpose here.” Meic Stephens, Cambria, Feb 08
Wrexham, the biggest town in north Wales gets the ´Real´ treatment from novelist and poet Grahame Davies. Born in Coedpoeth, now much-travelled, he´s still endlessly fascinated by his home town. Mixing personal experience and memory with history, topography, journalism, and an unflagging interest, Davies looks beyond the town´s workaday image and finds something rather special …
The ´Real´ series is edited by Peter Finch and also includes Real Cardiff, Real Cardiff 2 and Real Newport.
Check out a BBC blog review of the book here, and another two blogs here and here!
At Arm´s Length
Geraint Talfan DaviesDevolution to Wales and Scotland may prove to have been the most profound change in the UK in recent years. The consequences are far-reaching, and not just political. Geraint Talfan Davies, media and arts executive for more than three decades, recalls and reflects on the impact of this development for culture and civil society…
Everything is Sinister
David LlewellynEverything 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.
