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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
September – You are what you read
English Adult
Library of Wales: Border Country
The second title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As Matthew and Harry struggle with their memories of social and personal change, a beautiful and moving portrait of the love between a father and son emerges.
Honno Classics: View Across the Valley, A - Short Stories by Women from Wales C.1850-1950
A varied and interesting collection of 20 short stories by women from Wales, such as Brenda Chamberlain, Margiad Evans, Allen Raine and others whose works are rarely seen in print, spanning the period 1850-1950.
Honno Classics: Stranger Within the Gates - A Collection of Short Stories
A collection of witty, sharply observed short stories which engage with feminism, the 'fast' New Women of the 1890s, alongside narratives which explore the personal and emotional conflict experienced by people torn between multiple ethnicities or between different social and national groups.
Seren Classics: There was a Young Man from Cardiff
A work of autobiographical fiction celebrating the fascinating world of the imagination, being a novel of eighteen short stories exploring the complex nature of deceptive appearances and reality.
My People
A new edition of Caradoc Evans's collection of short stories portraying rural life in west Wales at the turn of the last century.
Library of Wales: The Dark Philosophers
The third title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. Three novellas distinguished by their astonishing portrayal of incest, murder, and devastating tragic humour. The stories include themes such as sexual and family power, death and exploitation. The final story 'The Dark Philosophers' is a grimly humorous account of three men who gather to discuss revenge.
Library of Wales: Country Dance
The fifth title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. A novel which sets a story of passion, murder and conflict played through the life of the young Ann Goodman, who is torn by 'the struggle for supremacy in her mixed blood', Welsh and English. A classic love story develops in which the rural life is no idyll, but a savage and exacting battle for survival.
Library of Wales - Withered Root, The
A novel recounting the troubled life of Reuben Daniels, reared in a south Wales valley, in Nonconformist culture. He is a young man full of life and its desires but still unsure of its meaning. A man absorbed - driven to expound the gospel. But in the new world of salvation there is conflict between the physical and the spiritual as his odyssey becomes a test for his mind, body and soul.
In This Place - The National Library of Wales
This book draws on the National Library of Wales's immense granary of manuscripts, printed volumes, intimate letters, memoirs, maps, religious texts,newspapers, music, film and records, photographs, paintings, engravings and cartoons. Its title, In This Place, salutes one of the treasures, the first book in the Welsh language.
Wales, Half Welsh
A diverse, contemporary collection of 18 short stories by a dozen writers who all have Welsh connections either by birth or by having lived in Wales at one time or other, reflecting the sweet and not-so-sweet experiences of life. 5 black-and-white illustrations.
Toy Epic, A
A novel about the friendship of three boys from differing backgrounds growing up in north-east Wales in the 1930s, together with an introduction by M. Wynn Thomas, textual notes and a fragment from an earlier version of the novel. First published in 1958.
Sugar and Slate
The warm and sensitive autobiographical story of a Welsh-African mixed-race woman, whose unusual upbringing in both parent's homelands together with further travels to the Caribbean became a continuous quest for her identity.
