The Medlar Tree

Glenda Beagan

Glenda Beagan’s stories introduce a host of ordinary and extraordinary characters: Gypsy Hayes, who really can read the future but doesn’t like what she sees; slightly sinister old Mrs Mossop (the ’saddist’); the terribly embarrassed young Hafwen; Mrs Jenkins, Sgubor Fawr, who every so often screams for a day. A French teacher waiting for her environmentally-sound lover, the mysterious and escaping Mrs Prosser, the poppy growing Laura, are characters on the brink of revelations which will transform their lives and surprise the reader ...

Melog

Mihangel Morgan

One of the most exciting works of modern Welsh-language fiction, available in English for the first time. The dull life of unemployed academic Dr Jones changes forever when he sees a young man naked on a building top, threatening to jump to his death ...

Monica

Saunders Lewis

Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis’s first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors was brought into Welsh fiction ...

Mr Cassini

Lloyd Jones

WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2007
Seren is excited to announce the publication of Mr Cassini a remarkable follow-up to the award-winning Mr Vogel.

Mr Cassini  is an amazing journey through the geography of one man’s troubled mind as he tries to recover the lost years of his childhood …

Mr Roopratna’s Chocolate: The Winning Stories from the Rhys Davies Competition

The thirteen prize-winners in the 1999 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition offer a variety which couldn’t have been constructed by a commissioning editor. Judges Leslie Thomas, Clare Morgan and Herbert Williams have chosen across a wide range of authors, subjects and styles marked by the single common factor of excellent writing …

Mr Vogel

Lloyd Jones

"ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS EVER WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF WALES." So said Jan Morris of Lloyd Jones’ extraordinary debut novel, Mr Vogel. Acclaimed novelist Iain Sinclair, meanwhile, has described it as "the tour-guide Wales has been waiting for." One of the most original and engaging novels to appear from - and about - Wales in recent years, Mr Vogel is all the more remarkable for the author’s own amazing story ...

My People

Caradoc Evans

The appearance of My People in 1915 caused a literary sensation. In England critics praised it as a work of art comparable with Zola and new writers such as Joyce …