Seren: 87 books

A haunting tale of love and tragedy, this riveting novel highlights the rare subject of domestic violence against men. Marly is a young woman struggling to deal with her emotions and depression in a small, dismal town. She longs to be elsewhere, retreating into daytime television and her idyllic childhood...

Set in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War's siege in the winter of 1870, this vivid and flamboyant novel tells the story of Eveline, a young woman longing for action but trapped in providing for her younger brother and her alcoholic, maudlin father. Engaged to the romantic Laurie, Eveline finds...

Reviving the first-millennium world of Celtic women saints—most of them far from saintly by current definitions—these inventive stories are not historical tracts or faithful retellings; instead they use the old legends as the framework for new plots, some of them set in the contemporary world....

Cilydd’s wife Goleuddydd, who is nine months pregnant, seems to vanish into thin air at a supermarket one wintry afternoon. Cilydd convinces his cousin, Arthur-a private eye who has never solved a single case-to help him with the investigation. So begins a tale of intrigue and confusion that concludes...

The latest book of travel essays by prize-winning writer and poet Robert Minhinnick, Island of Lightning documents his travels from his home in south Wales to locations such as Argentina, China, Finland, Iraq, New York, Lithuania, and the titular island itself, Malta. In conventional essays and leaps...

In the words of the detective chief superintendent who led it, this recollection tells the story of Operation Ottawa, the cold case investigation of John Cooper for two Pembrokeshire double homicides: the Scoveston Manor murder of Richard and Helen Thomas in 1985 and the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path...

Exploratory and alive to the senses, The Museum of Disappearing Sounds creates new perspectives on language and the world in which it exists. The disappearing sounds of Zoë Skoulding’s new collection may be either in the rich sonic environments that the poems observe or in the resonance of words...

Beyond the Pampas is an exploration of the lives of the descendents of nineteenth century Welsh settlers in Argentina. Herrad discovers a fascinating melding of Welsh and Spanish language cultures through which she explores the nature of heritage and identity. Her expectations are further challenged...

From poignant and dangerous obsessions with the iconic, to direct, often puzzled, conversations with ghosts, the characters in this short story collection strive to make contact with the impossible. A girl becomes obsessed with a figure she only sees through a Camera Obscura; an angry man strikes...

‘Cusp’ this new collection from Graham Mort, features many of the qualities readers have come to admire: keen observation, a feeling for the natural world that echoes and enhances the human interactions in his poems, the sense of the individual as part of a larger society of which we are all implicitly...

From England to Europe, Africa to South America, these stories from prizewinning short-story writer Graham Mort explore relationships: father and child; man and wife; man and his environment. A rising star of winemaking understands his terroir, but oversteps the boundaries; a father taking his son...

Perceptive, persuasive and intricately made, the poems of Kate Bingham's third collection, Infragreen, take the reader on a startling and unfamiliar journey through everyday experiences and phenomena. Her keen eye, reflectiveness and quiet wit endow her subjects with a shimmering freshness. Set within...

Intelligent and humorous, this debut collection showcases multi-faceted and often paradoxical poetry from a talented female writer. Touching upon various topics-from the versatility of language and modern cable TV shows to the difficulties of childhood and the power of maternal love-this compilation...

The story of Owain Hughes’s childhood in the 1940s and 1950s, Everything I Have Always Forgotten chronicles the author’s time spent in boarding schools, his family’s large but dilapidated house, and on the banks and waters of the Dyfi estuary. His stories of boating, horse riding, and walking...