Fiction
82 Books in fictionBetween Two Seas
R.D. CookBetween Two Seas will be launched at Oriel Q, Queen's Hall Gallery, Narberth at 6.30pm on Thursday, July 17. The event will include a staged reading from the novel by Narberth Talespinners.
The Loser
Fatos KongoliTranslated by Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck
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 …
“Llewellyn smartly conjures up a world that is eerily all too familiar…in Everything is Sinister, Llewellyn has created a nightmarish, repulsive vision of the near future, but his style is so engaging, his world so credible and unsettling, that I defy you not to reach the very bitter, bloody end of this engaging read.” Attitude, May 08
Check out a review of Everything is Sinister on The Telegraph website here
Fighting Pretty
Louise WalshWomen's boxing may not yet be an Olympic sport, after plans to preview it in Beijing were dropped. But there's plenty of fight left in the sport yet, not least in the Welsh valleys. In an unsubtle hint to London 2012, Seren is publishing the fictitious tale of Welsh Women's boxer Lizzie Collins next month. Written in honest, original prose, sharp with imagery and a love of place, debut author Louise Walsh tells a warm, no-holds-barred story of a Cardiff girl who refuses to throw in the towel …
Fighting Pretty will be launched July 11th at Borders bookshop, The Hayes, Cardiff. All are welcome to the launch which will include refreshments and a live band. Contact jencampbell@seren-books.com for further details.
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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 …
"In scope and imagination, If You Fall is a breathtaking fiction traversing worlds - geographical, political and interstellar - with an ease that belies its first novel status … If You Fall is a novel destined for a stunning future and one assured of a deserved place on the bookshelf of great contemporary Welsh literature"
Steve Adams, South Wales Guardian, 7th May 2008
Click HERE for full review.
An Affair of the Heart
Clare MorganEach story in An Affair of the Heart questions the apparently romantic title through its exploration of the enigmatic state of mind known as love ...
The Awakening
Kate RobertsA new translation of a classic novel by the major author of twentieth century Welsh literature. The happy family life of Lora Ffennig is shattered when her husband abruptly and unexpectedly leaves her for a colleague. The world she has taken for granted is suddenly unfamiliar, and Lora must find a new compass to guide her and her children ...
Capel Sion
Caradoc EvansCaradoc Evans is perhaps the most controversial writer Wales has ever produced. His first book, My People, met with outrage from the pulpit and the popular press, was banned in Cardiff, but also earned Evans comparison with Zola, Joyce and Lawrence ...
