The Land as Viewed from the Sea

Richard Collins

Richard Collins’ debut novel is a dreamlike meditation on land and sea and the illusory nature of love. Two friends work together on a smallholding: one allows the other to read the novel he is writing, ’The Land as Viewed from the Sea’. As the novel unfolds, fiction begins to intrude upon reality, redefining the friends’ relationship, and threatening to change their lives forever ...

"Fresh, surprising and ambitious ... Richard Collins’ dark-hearted love story is a gripping tale that unfolds with immense narrative skill." The Whitbread First Novel Award Judges

The Last Candles

Tony Curtis


The Last Candles confirms Tony Curtis’s stature as a poet. In it he develops his prize-winning narrative style, bringing a vast range of contemporary and historical perspectives into play in poems private and public about...

Last Light Breaking

Patrick Corcoran

Connolly, old, recently widowed, body declining, is marooned in the house of his son in Wales. An Irishman from Carlow he joined the British army to escape poverty and found himself on the wrong side of the Irish conflict and the wrong side of the Irish Sea. At the end of his life Connolly can only wonder what form an ’Irish’ life might have taken for him, and at the worth of his life as an outsider in England ...

Late Thoughts in March

John Powell Ward

Ward’s poems have a bracing freshness. He is extremely aware of the basis of language, of the alphabet as an abstract, symbolic and sacred presence, and he is wary of pinning down experience with it....

Laughter from the Dark

Michael Parnell

Novelist, playwright, broadcaster, raconteur: by the time of his early death in 1981, Gwyn Thomas was widely admired as all these things, in addition to being a much-Ioved columnist in Punch. Once described as ’the greatest talker in the world’ he was the veteran entertainer of The Brains Trust and Tonight, and a moving commentator on the Aberfan disaster ...

Laying Out the Body

Lucien Jenkins

These poems by Lucien Jenkins often have the quality of lucid dreams, for they are at once vivid and particular and charged with emotion. In ’Dog’ the past literally hounds one; in ’Less’ the earth begins to shrink...

Letter to Patience

John Haynes

WINNER OF 2006 COSTA POETRY AWARD
Letter to Patience is a book-length poem in iambic pentameter, set in ‘Patience’s Parlour’ a small, mud-walled bar in northern Nigeria in 1993 – a time of political unrest.The writer of the letter has returned to Britain, with his Nigerian wife and children, to nurse his dying father.

 … “it also needs to be said, that this is another publishing triumph for Seren Books. It would seem that Welsh publishing is in a healthier state than London.” Parameter, April 08

 

Letters from Wales

Joan Abse (ed.)

Ranging over eight centuries of life in Wales, this fascinating anthology of private and public correspondence, journals and diary entries provides an enthralling commentary on the country’s development …

The Lie of Horizons

Desmond Graham

The Lie of Horizons is Desmond Graham’s first full collection of poems. Varied in scope and range, these poems take on subjects as personal as his parents and as public as ’Mrs.Thatcher’s England’...

Lime, Lemon and Sarsaparilla: The Italian Community in South Wales, 1881-1945

Colin Hughes

’Lime, Lemon and Sarsaparilla’ is a wonderful evocation of Italian life in south Wales from the turn of the century to the post-war years, when the Italian café was central to the social life of many small communities in the valleys …