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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 Themes
June – Reading escapes
English Adult
Killer Inside, The
The fourth book in the crime series. Forensic psychologist Megan is investigating the unusually high suicide rate among prisoners at the grim Victorian Balsall Gate jail in Birmingham. While she is there, yet another death occurs. The police are uninterested. To them this is just another drug overdose. But Megan is not convinced.
Virtual Strangers
A witty and romantic thirty-something novel about Charlie Simpson, a woman who thinks she may have found her soulmate - via e-mail. Her mum's always said she shouldn't talk to strangers. The question is, is now the time to start breaking the rules?
Temperance Town
A harsh novel portraying the colourful lives of three complex characters and their families, lovers and colleagues in the brutal surroundings of the Cardiff docks.
Sea Holly
A story of drifting, burnt-out lives, shadowed by the mysterious disappearance of a vivacious girl. It tells the story of John Vine, an English teacher who has left his job and moved to a nearby coastal caravan park. Key to the novel is a deeply rooted sense of place: a decaying seaside town where addicts and immigrants exist cheek by jowl with town houses and middle-class intelligentsia.
Love and Other Possibilities
A volume of short stories offering a world of escape and adventure by award-winning writer Lewis Davies. Paintings, films, soap stars, taxi fares, carpentry, sex, playwriting, murder, ferries, India, trains, Sri Lanka, Spain, currency, Wales, dissection, medicine, Cardiff, monkeys, war ... they're all in this book!
Cressida's Bed
A novel portraying the passionate and tragic love affair of an English female doctor and a British soldier of Welsh descent, set against the 1931-2 independence riots in India.
Coming Up Roses – Stories of Gardens and Life
A fiction anthology from Welsh women writing about gardens: what they mean to them, what happens in them and where they take them. There are sad stories and happy ones, tales from home and abroad - all of them share a love for plants and planting, flowers and seeds, a real sense of the power of growing things to change lives.
Colour of a Dog Running Away, The
A powerful novel set in Barcelona about the love affair of a nomadic-style hero and a sophisticated city girl and about their abduction by a sinister sect to the Pyrenees.
Big Cats and Kitten Heels
A follow-up to the first novel The Floristry Commission, this is a story about Rachel, a good friend who is being usurped by the prettier, more outrageous action woman called Marcia. But as her friend's hen-night approaches, and Rachel ends up in the Brecon Beacons with a dangerous wild-cat and a handsome man to protect her, she realises that not even Marcia will top that!
Bells
A humorous story about love in later life. Morris dancer Jack falls unexpectedly in love when a weekend gig is cancelled. Meanwhile at home his disenchanted wife, Fay, conceives a passion for one of her son's closest friends. Will their marriage survive the draw of new and exotic lovers?
Amber Knight, The
This fast-paced action thriller is a multi-layered story that spans eight centuries, from medieval Germany and Prussia to present day Poland and USA and is centred on the legend of the Amber Knight - a beloved relic that inspired generations until stolen by the Nazis.
