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The Rice Paper Diaries
Seren 2013; US$ 13.11Hong Kong,1940. When newly wed Elsa Jones, fresh out from Wales, loses her first baby, she is torn apart by grief and homesickness. War is coming closer ? Allied soldiers start to appear on the streets and there are bomb shelters in downtown Wan Chai ? but Elsa barely notices. Then the Japanese invade. After a humiliating defeat, European and American... more...
Call Mother a Lonely Field
Seren 2013; US$ 13.11Shortlisted for the 2013 Ondaatje Prize, Call Mother a Lonely Field mines the emotional archaeology of family, home and language, the author?s attempts to break their tethers, and the refuge he finds within them. Carson confronts the complex relationship between a son thinking in English, a father dreaming in Irish ?in a room just off the reality... more...
Touch
Seren 2010; US$ 11.65From the heat of Africa to the warmth of France or the snowbound dales of northern England, this is an assured and absorbing collection. Including the Bridport prize-winning story 'The Prince', Touch spans twenty years of short-story writing from author and poet Graham Mort. From a young child adrift on an ice-filled lake to an ageing farmer facing... more...
Jack the Ripper: The Hand of a Woman
Seren 2012; US$ 10.14The Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 continue to exert a macabre hold on our imagination. Among the first serial murders, their brutality and bizarreness, and the seeming impossibility of detection have a terrible fascination. What kind of person could have performed such horrific deeds, and could have overstepped the boundary of what marks humankind?... more...
Cusp
Seren 2011; US$ 13.11'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 implicitly responsible. New here is a different sort of line,... more...
Inroads
Seren 2010; US$ 11.65Shortlisted for the London Festival Fringe Prize for the Best First Collection of Poetry 2010. This debut collection from Seren, Inroads, showcases a startling new talent. Carolyn Jess-Cooke has a sophisticated poetic intelligence as well as a great sense of fun. The opening piece, ?Accent? where ?stowaway inflections and locally-produced slang/have... more...
Second Chance
Seren 2011; US$ 8.74Having returned home to Wales for her mother's funeral, actress Kate Rivers is overwhelmed by her past and forced to take stock of her life. From nursing her depressed mother as a child, through to her successful career and relationship with handsome photographer, Paul. past and present bombard Kate as she revisits the cottage and village in which... more...
Selected Poems
Seren 2012; US$ 11.65Here is the best of Sheenagh Pugh?s early work: a generous and wide-ranging selection from her first four collections, together with two dozen previously unpublished pieces Notable inclusions are the prize-winning 'M.S.A' and 'Intercity Lullaby', and the much-anthologised 'Sometimes.' Throughout, a lively and enquiring mind is brought to bear on how... more...
Witch
Seren 2012; US$ 13.11With the narrative pull of a novel and the vibrancy of a play for voices, Damian Walford Davies's Witch offers a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the mid-seventeenth century. The poems in this collection are dark spells, compact and moving: seven sections, each of seven poems, each of seven couplets,... more...
Lightning Beneath the Sea
Seren 2012; US$ 13.11Already well-known for his prizewinning Welsh-language poetry and fiction, and for his scholarly non-fiction, Grahame Davies has now produced his first collection of poems in English. Using a native warmth and an intimate, conversational tone, his poems are as concerned with character and relationships as they are with wider cultural matters. more...









