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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
December – Write the future
Welsh Adult
Gwe o Gelwyddau
An exciting, contemporary novel, which is full of conspiracy, spin and satire. Under the surface there is one constant theme - the tortured struggle of one young woman as she tries to come to terms with the dark past which threatens to destroy her future and those around her.
Talu'r Pris
A gripping novel set in Wales in 2082, where the rebel Iolo ab Maredudd - who is looking for a quiet life after the idealistic battles of his youth - is drawn into the world of conspiracy and corruption of military governments, genetic scientific experiments and underground societies.
Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn
The novel which won the Prose Medal at the 1992 National Eisteddfod and which was acclaimed as a masterpiece by all three adjudicators. First published in 1992.
Bitsh!
The prizewinning volume of the 2002 National Eisteddfod Daniel Owen Memorial prize, being a novel about a young man from the 1960s who traces his muddled life by means of a series of computer files recording the happenings that led to his downfall, especially his relationship with females. First published in August 2002.
O'r Harbwr Gwag i'r Cefnfor Gwyn
A second edition of the prize winning entry in the 1994 National Eisteddfod prose Medal competition, a fantasy love story about the quest of the hero for his love against many odds. First published in 1994.
Sibrydion o Andromeda
A gripping novel containing elements of science fiction. Dafydd Gruffydd sees an alien UFO and an alien creature. He must avoid the authorities in order to discover the chilling secret about earth's situation.
Wythnos yng Nghymru Fydd
A new edition of Islwyn Ffowc Elis's classic Welsh novel which portrays Wales as it could be in the year 2033. Includes a new foreword by Dylan Iorwerth.
Melog
An experimental novel which contains humour and satire as it describes the unconventional relationship between two very different characters.
Blodyn Tatws
The prize volume in the Literature Medal competition at Bro Ogwr National Eisteddfod 1998, a highly imaginative story set in the inventive 21st century world of computers and micro-chips, comprising strong elements of humour and satire.
Igam Ogam
When Tomos Ap receives a phone call from his adopted father asking him to return home, he suspects there's a plot to force him to run the familial farm. But when Nature tries to take over, he has more than sheep dipping to worry about. This novel won Ifan Morgan Jones the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize at the 2008 National Eisteddfod.
