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Seren Books is Wales’ leading independent literary publisher, specialising in English-language writing from Wales. With a list spanning poetry, fiction and non-fiction, our aim is to bring Welsh literature, art and politics before a wider audience.

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This cover shows a dark lino print image of a crow foregrounded against the distant skyline of industrial Swansea. The text reads: The Forger's Ink. Jo Mazelis.

The Forger’s Ink

Jo Mazelis

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This cover shows has a dark background and shows an old country house alone, surrounded by moths and branches carrying blood red berries. The text reads Sugar Hall. Tiffany Murray.

Sugar Hall

Tiffany Murray

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This cover shows a spooky illustration of a lonely bungalow beneath an empty night sky. The text reads: Let a Sleeping Witch Lie: Welsh Gothic Stories by Elizabeth Walter

Let a Sleeping Witch Lie

Elizabeth Walter, Nick Freeman (Editor)

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This cover shows a colourful, collage illustration by Pete Fowler. The text reads: Wonderboy and The Life and Times of Drewford Alabama. Jamie Morrison

Wonderboy and The Life & Times of Drewford Alabama

Jamie Morrison

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This cover shows a black print of a smashed vodka bottle set against a shocking pink background. The text reads: The Crazy Truth. Gemma June Howell. A novel.

The Crazy Truth

Gemma June Howell

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This cover shows a line illustration of a woman and a dog walking through lush green fields. Behind them, a river separates them from a burning city. The text reads: All the Colours You Cannot Name. Joad R Wren.

All the Colours You Cannot Name

Joad R. Wren

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This cover has a light blue colour and shows the face of a mysterious girl obscured by shadows and horizontal bars. The text reads: The Shape of Her by Anne Lauppe-Dunbar.

The Shape of Her

Anne Lauppe-Dunbar

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This cover shows an image of a young woman, facing away, looking out over the rolling hills of the black mountains. The text reads: Things Found on the Mountain. Diana Powell.

things found on the mountain

Diana Powell

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Whaling

Nathan Munday

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The Confession of Hilary Durwood

Euron Griffith

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An Affair of the Heart

Clare Morgan

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Scar Tissue

Clare Morgan

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This cover shows a vibrant illustration of Three Cliffs Bay with a runner in bright leggings stepping into the foreground. The text reads: Wild Running South Wales. Natalie Ann Holborow.

Wild Running

Natalie Ann Holborow

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This cover shows a drone shot of a large derelict building being taken over by nature. The text reads: Vanished Wales. Carwyn Jones.

Vanished Wales

Carwyn Jones

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This cover has a blue background, framing a picture of a neolithic stone plinth propped up by concrete blocks. The text reads: Wales As Is. David Hurn. Essay by Richard King.

Wales As Is

David Hurn, Richard King

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This cover shows a graphic geometric cube made up of smaller cubes casting a long shadow. The text reads: There's Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch. Andrew Taylor.

There’s Everything to Play For

Andrew Taylor

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This cover shows an eerie photograph of a house mostly in shadow beneath a dusky sky. The text reads: Murder on Ynys Mon The Anglesey Crossbow Killing, Sion Tecwyn and Meic Parry

Murder on Ynys Môn

Siôn Tecwyn, Meic Parry

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This cover shows an illustration of a grey heron standing on the side of an estuary, the purple heather stretching out in the distance. The text reads: This Stolen Land A People's History of the Gwent Levels. Marsha O'Mahony.

This Stolen Land

Marsha O’Mahony

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The cover shows six t-shirts of varying colour at the top and bottom of the cover. The middle has six colour blocks which provide a background to the word ‘casual’. The text reads: A Casual Life in Six T-shirts. Euron Griffith.

A Casual Life in Six T-shirts

Euron Griffith

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This cover shows a yellow photograph of a road in patagonia stretching into the mountains. On the left of the cover is a bright yellow strip with repeating black patterns. Text reads: Ambassador of Nowhere: A Latin American Pilgrimage. Richard Gwyn.

Ambassador of Nowhere

Richard Gwyn

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This cover shows large white text with a yellow ampersand on a dark green background. The end of the ampersand is a dragon’s tail. The text reads: Cymru & I. Essays By Gosia Buzzanca, Tia-Zakura Camilleri, Kelechi Ronald Ikpe, Mo Jannah, Bethany McAuley, Laura Mochan, Debowale Omole, Alys Roberts, Anthony Shapland. In Parntnership with Inclusive Journalism Cymru.

Cymru & I

Inclusive Journalism Cymru

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This cover shows a black and white image of a herd of sheep moving down the side of a mountain. The text reads: A Hardy Breed, Sheep Farming in Wales. Bruce Cardwell.

A Hardy Breed

Bruce Cardwell

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This cover shows a photo of a Dorset Hill Fort. A lush grass path leads to the domed fort in the distance which sits beneath a blue sky tinged with the golden light of early dusk. The text reads: Real Dorset. Jon Woolcott.

Real Dorset

Jon Woolcott

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This cover shows a sculpture of a glass dress as if worn by an invisible figure. It is posed as if sat on its left hip with its legs stretched out to the side. The text reads: Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism. Kim Moore.

Are You Judging Me Yet?

Kim Moore

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This cover shows a blurred image of a women in a 1920s style black dress standing in front of a patterned wall. The text reads: Hotel Amour. Deryn Rees-Jones

Hôtel Amour

Deryn Rees-Jones

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This cover shows an intricate collage of personal household objects overlapping in tones of blue. The text reads: The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning. Alison Binney.

The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning

Alison Binney

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This cover shows a graphic of a flying swallow in peachy, orange against a bright pink background. The text reads Cling Film Bethany Handley.

Cling Film

Bethany Handley

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This cover shows an abstract painting of two figures, one wearing a shirt and tie, against a pink background. The text reads: Significant Wow. Emily Cotterill.

Significant Wow

Emily Cotterill

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This cover shows a painting of a wooden house surrounded by lush vegetation and palm trees beneath a blue sky. The text reads: I Sing to the Greenhearts. Maggie Harris.

I Sing to the Greenhearts

Maggie Harris

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This cover shows an abstract image in overlapping hues of purple and mustard yellow of two people entwined. The text reads: Portrait in Mustard. Wendy Allen.

Portrait in Mustard

Wendy Allen

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This cover shows a still life painting of various fruits which are beginning to decay. The text reads: Fruits of Labour, Betty Doyle.

Fruits of Labour

Betty Doyle

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This cover shows a dark Renaissance-style painting of a woman with paint peeling away over her face and body. The text reads: Strange Husbandry, Lorcan Black

Strange Husbandry

Lorcán Black

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This cover shows a vintage photo of a woman sleeping with her head on a pillow, a large conch shell pressed to her ear. The text reads: Battery Rocks, Katrina Naomi

Battery Rocks

Katrina Naomi

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This cover depicts a painted image of a large hill. The hill is dark, with blurred fields in the foreground and a light sky in the background. The text reads A Darker Way: Grahame Davies.

A Darker Way

Grahame Davies

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This cover depicts an illustration of a ceiling with repeated black and white swirling patterns. In place of a lampshade are several colourful ribbons tied together. There is a shadow of the ribbons on the ceiling. The text reads: Leaving the Hills, Tony Curtis. ‘The poems reverberate with present, sensuous experiences, but beyond their immediacy there is a deep hinterland of public and private histories, grief and delight’.- Helen Dunmore.

Leaving the Hills

Tony Curtis

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This cover depicts a drawing of snow-covered branches which overlap. There is a bright red cardinal one a single branch. The text reads: Grief's Alphabet by Carrie Etter.

Grief’s Alphabet

Carrie Etter

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This cover shows has a dark background and shows an old country house alone, surrounded by moths and branches carrying blood red berries. The text reads Sugar Hall. Tiffany Murray.

Sugar Hall

Tiffany Murray

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This cover shows a spooky illustration of a lonely bungalow beneath an empty night sky. The text reads: Let a Sleeping Witch Lie: Welsh Gothic Stories by Elizabeth Walter

Let a Sleeping Witch Lie

Elizabeth Walter, Nick Freeman (Editor)

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This cover shows a painting of a road stretching into the distance beneath a dark sky. The text reads: The Edge of Cymru. A Journey. Julie Brominicks

The Edge of Cymru

Julie Brominicks

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This Is Not Who We Are

Sophie Buchaillard

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This cover shows an abstract painting by the artist Antony Goble. A woman with blue skin dominates the image in a vibrant orange dress. She is balancing an urn on her head and holds a red crow in her hand. The text reads: As If To Sing, Paul Henry.

As If To Sing

Paul Henry

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Dark Land, Dark Skies

Martin Griffiths

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Much With Body

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