The Loser

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Everything is Sinister

David Llewellyn

Everything 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

“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

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.

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 Jenkins

If 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.

An Affair of the Heart

Clare Morgan

Each 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 Roberts

A 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 Evans

Caradoc 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 ...

Cecil & Noreen

Patrick Corcoran

A poignant, subtle, and amusing love story in which an elderly couple - Cecil and Noreen - reminisce about their courtship and marriage. In a nursing home, Cecil recollects and relives the marriage through the aide-memoir of Noreen’s preserved letters, kept in a box at his bedside ...

Changes and Dreams

Glenda Beagan

Reflection and re-evaluation lie at the centre of the thirteen stories of Glenda Beagan’s latest volume. Their characters - mostly women - have reached a point in their lives , sometimes one of crisis, at which they must review what has passed and hazard a guess at what is to come ...