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Brand new clubs that offered teenage boys the opportunity to meet celebrities, win prizes and enjoy many activities!
Reading Communities
The towns of Barry and Llanelli organised a whole host of book-based events over the summer and autumn!
Click here for more details of the 2008 Reading Communities.
Give a Book Week
Celebrities and members of the public throughout Wales gave each other books as gifts during this special week in July!
Click here to take a peek at the week's activities
Monthly Theme
May – Mind and body
English Adult
Two in a Boat: A Marital Rite of Passage
An entertaining account of the experiences of the author and her husband on a voyage on a small yacht, recording changes in their relationship and reflecting optimism and wisdom in the face of personal tensions and practical catastrophes.
Strange Days Indeed: Autobiographical Stories About Motherhood by Women from Wales
A collection of autobiographical writings about motherhood, penned by women from Wales. Funny, shocking and tender, it covers the whole spectrum of what it means to be a mother - from getting pregnant to the empty-nest syndrome.
Remembering Judith
A hauntingly moving tale about a young Jewish woman who escapes Nazi Germany and meets her future husband, who cares for her when she's ill, in a boarding house. Tragically she associates illness with love, and a pattern is set. Her behaviour eventually spirals into anorexia; this effects her life and her relationship with her daughter.
My Mummy Wears a Wig – Does Yours?
A moving and humorous account of Michelle Williams-Huw's personal journey which reveals the fears, the hopes and the absurdity of her illness (cancer). With two small children to care for and her life in turmoil, she recounts her day-to-day struggles while undergoing nine months of treatment. With captivating candour she relates the effects it has on her relationships and life.
Laughing, Not Laughing: Women Writing on 'My Experience of Sex'
A collection of autobiographical writings by 26 authors of all ages about the sexual experiences of women from Wales.
Imperfectly Natural Woman
A collection of alternative ways of making yourself beautiful, keeping your home clean and ensuring you stay healthy. The author relates her experience of different kinds of complementary health, beauty products and ways of avoiding the use of chemicals and other harmful substances. This book is for those looking to live a healthier life.
Flowers & Fables: A Welsh Herbal
A guide to 78 wild flowers common in Britain, strikingly illustrated by the author's vivid photographs. Each flower is described botanically – physical appearance, habitat, growing pattern – together with information about their medicinal properties and how myths (particularly Welsh myths) have accumulated around them.
Facing into the West Wind
A debut novel with an ethereal, deeply felt focus on characters and relationships. When Haz meets the rejected and lonely Jason on the streets of Bristol he decides to take him home to the family's beach house at Gower. What follows is a series of confessions and revelations which will change everything.
Diary of a Diet: A Little Book of Big
This Little Book of Big is about Hannah Jones's ongoing struggle to commit to get fit, stick to a sensible eating plan or think, once and for all, that she's totally fabulous just the way she is. It's a sharp, witty and heartfelt study on living life in the fast lane to self-acceptance.
Bit on the Side - Work, Sex, Love, Loss and Own Goals
A book on contemporary lives; our desires, discontents, ambitions and commitments. It reports and reflects on new identities with wit and verve. And while not claiming to have 'the answers', the writing offers fresh views on the politics of sex and gender in Britain today.
Blue Sky July
Set between the summers of 1998 and 2005 in Cardiff, Blue Sky July follows the story of a mother whose child suffers a brain injury and her battle against the odds to heal him. Through her intimate day-by-day musings, the book explores the impact of the tragedy on the mother's thoughts and feelings as the most extraordinary relationship unfolds.
