Get On Board
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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
English Adult
The Secret of Home
The Secret of Home represents the next step for Feng Shui. It's a guide, to read your home as a Map for the journey of your life. Your home describes your life's journey. Your big picture is hidden in the details. Awakening to them enables you to see more deeply into yourself, gain a better perspective on your life.
Ice
An imaginative novel in verse form about foreseeing the possible dark outcome of global warming and mankind's lust for economic growth.
Runt
A gripping story about a boy who, although barely educated, is possessed of extraordinary insights. He leaves school at 16, and goes to live on his widower-uncle's farm. The boy is innocent, spiritual and can also speak a language of his own, a poetry laden with Pagan and Christian myth. Through ecstatic trances he learns that he has an appointed place in the world.
If You Fall I Will Catch You
A first novel by Eifion Jenkins. It is a mix of literary and genre novel - a myth for modern times. Gwidion is a boy on the verge of manhood. To him 9/11 has no meaning. But the psychic shockwaves of the event, in a world which has destroyed itself, are still felt. Gwidion is troubled by dreams in which he is falling from a clear blue sky and being caught by an imaginary twin ...
Playing Mercy
A look at the world of Chris and Year Eleven mates Zeb, Kish and Snowman, who trade in cut-price sweets and fags for Graham, who has a police scanner in his living room.
The Banquet of Esther Rosenbaum
A lively novel which is a retro epic in the genre of magic realism. Among the contents are the interwar cabaret scene in Munich and Berlin, seen through the eyes of a seven-foot Jewish giantess. The tapestry of Jewish culture, evoked through food, theatre, clothes and custom, at the point at which it is about to unravel.
Hybrids
A thrilling sci-fi novel set in a believable and terrifying near future. Johnny Online and Kestrella are hybrids - victims of the "Creep", a pandemic sweeping the country which causes sufferers to merge with items of technology when over-exposed to their use...
Sunstroke
Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure.
The Standing Ground
A futuristic novel. In a future without freedom life is unravelling for Luke until he has a virtual encounter with a girl from beyond the all-controlling grip of E-government. Is Alys real? What parts have the mythical characters of the past to play in saving the future and, most importantly, can Luke find the Standing Ground?
Falling
A gripping near-future thriller by a new author. The novel follows a woman who has the ability to jump to any point in her life, as she tries to find out who's trying to kill her.
White Star
An English translation by the author of Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn, a romantic fantasy novel which won him the 1992 Welsh National Eisteddfod Prose Medal.
