@Books_Wales

We are a national charity which supports the book industry in Wales. We promote reading for pleasure and its transformative power. Cyfrif Cymraeg: @LlyfrauCymru

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📚The Books Council of Wales and our Distribution Centre will be closed from Monday afternoon, 23 December 2024 and will re-open after the holidays on Thursday, 2 January 2025. ✨We wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas. #ChooseBookshops
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Just Another Poet's latest interview features @niapolly whose 2024 collection 'Votive Mess' was published by @BloodaxeBooks & she's also a former @poetrywales editor: youtube.com/watch?v=nL57X6Xl…. Thanks @Books_Wales for supporting the work of this poetry channel ❤️
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calonbooks@calonbooks19 Dec 2024
Christmas is just a few days away but you can be sure your favourite local bookshop will have the perfect presents! 🎁
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The Cambrian Line 🚂@CambrianLine19 Dec 2024
📚🛤️ 🚉 Remember to pick up your FREE #QuickReads Book from @transport_wales #Machynlleth or #Aberystwyth railway station for Quick Tales on the Rails. #FreeBooks #WelshAuthors #WelshLiterature @books_wales @CommunityRail
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Firefly Press@FireflyPress18 Dec 2024
History-making picks for the young historical fiction reader in your life: Honesty and Lies by @eloisejwilliams Digging for Victory by @cathy_faulkner_ Flight by #VanessaHarbour Feather by @manonsteffanros ⁠ Available from your local bookshop or at uk.bookshop.org/shop/firefly…
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calonbooks@calonbooks18 Dec 2024
Buying books for someone who loves literature can be tricky, so why not buy them the perfect gift: a book about books! Follow the link below to discover more in Calon's Christmas gift guide 📚 uwp.co.uk/calon-christmas-gi…
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Poetry Wales@poetrywales17 Dec 2024
It's BACK! The Poetry Wales Award (formerly Wales Poetry Award) is back with a shiny new name and logo, just in time for the new year. Open 17 Dec 24 - 17 Feb 25 with judge Jeremy Dixon, we are once again looking for your best unpublished poems! poetrywales.co.uk/award
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Libraries Wales@LibrariesWales13 Dec 2024
Our Author of the Month is Angela Graham! Her poetry collection STAR lights up Christmas. At it's core are The Three Kings but also The Three Queens: women who are brought forward from behind the scenes, to be seen and heard. Angela answers our questions: libraries.wales/aotm/angela-…
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✨STAR: Poems for the Christmas Season by Angela Graham is our #BookOfTheMonth. 📻@AngelaGraham8 will be on the @BBCRadioWales Arts Show, tonight, 13 December 2024 at 18:30, discussing her work with Gary Raymond and reading a poem. 🎧Listen here⬇️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0025rv…
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📚Choose Bookshops this Christmas! 🔹Books from Wales and the world 🔹Reading recommendations 🔹Personalised service 🔹Supporting the high street. #ChooseBookshops
Graphic. Illustration of a woman wearing glasses reading with snow falling. Text reads: Cefnogwch Siopau Llyfrau Choose Bookshops

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Seren Books@SerenBooks9 Dec 2024
This Wednesday, 11th December, join us online for a presentation and Q&A about our open call-out for Welsh Gothic and Fantasy Fiction. We hope you can join us eventbrite.co.uk/e/109797535….
Join us online for our Welsh Gothic and Fantasy Fiction call-out Q&A. Wednesday 11th December. 7-8pm via Zoom. We'll be giving a short presentation about the call-out followed by a Q&A. Everyone welcome. Book at www.eventbrite.co.uk.

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AM@ambobdim9 Dec 2024
📚Gift Guide: Books for music lovers📚 Looking for Christmas gifts? Here are 5 books that would make perfect gifts for music lovers👇 🔗amam.cymru/carudarllen/gift-…
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📢Job Vacancy📢 📚We are looking for a Project Co-ordinator: Libraries. 🔹Salary: £32,115–£37,035 pro rata 🔹Specific period until 31 March 2025 ⬇More details HERE: llyfrau.cymru/en/swyddi-gwir… 📆Closing date: 18 December 2024 #LoveReading
Graphic. Books Council of Wales logo. On green bachground the following text in white: Join Our Team Project Co-ordinator: Libraries Salary: £32,115 - £37,035 pro rata Specific period until 31 March 2025 15 hours per week (over 3 days) More details: www.books.wales Closing date: 18 December 2024

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Uni of Wales Press@UniWalesPress9 Dec 2024
Not sure what your fiction-loving friend will want this Christmas? Follow the link below to explore our latest books on literary criticism and the history of literature for something a bit different 📚 uwp.co.uk/nadolig-christmas/
Covers of 'Grammar and Poetry Late Medieval and Early Modern Wales', 'This is Not a Grail Romance', and 'The History of Wales in Twelve Poems'.

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calonbooks@calonbooks9 Dec 2024
Wonderful to see 'Nightshade Mother' by Gwyneth Lewis included in the @guardian's best biographies and memoirs of 2024! Follow the link below to discover more: theguardian.com/books/2024/d… One to add to your Christmas list! 📚

The best biographies and memoirs of 2024

Salman Rushdie’s account of his near-fatal stabbing, a 360-degree view of Queen Elizabeth II and Al Pacino’s rags to riches career are among this year’s most compelling personal histories

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✨STAR: Poems for the Christmas Season by @AngelaGraham8 is our #BookOfTheMonth. 📚Avilable now from your local bookshop. #ChooseBookshops
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CLLCplantBCWchildren@LlyfrDaFabBooks5 Dec 2024
📚 Here are the titles for children and young adults that flew out of our warehouse last month. 📚Available now from your local bookshop. #ChooseBookshops
Fast Movers English Titles for Children and Young Adults November 2024 1. OH YES I AM! - Mama G 2.DISNEY BACK TO BOOKS: FROZEN - Disney 3.YOU AND RABBIT MAKE A SNOWMAN -Jemma Beeke 4.ALBERT 123 - Ian Brown 5. DOUGHNUTS, THIEVES AND CHIMPANZEES - Alex Wharton 6. DISNEY BACK TO BOOKS: THE JUNGLE BOOK - Disney 7. FLETCHER'S NUMBERS - Julia Rawlinson 8. DISNEY BACK TO BOOKS: SNOW WHITE SEVEN DWARFS - Disney 9. DISNEY BACK TO BOOKS: WINNIE THE POOH - Disney 10. DISNEY BACK TO BOOKS: THE LION KING – Disney

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✨Llongyfarchiadau // Congratulations @ManonSteffanRos and translator Lise Garond. 📘The Blue Book of Nebo, published by @FireflyPress, is available now from your local bookshop.
Royal Society of Literature@RSLiterature4 Dec 2024
We are pleased to announce that the inaugural winners of the Entente Littéraire Prize are Lucie Bryon @heyluchie for Thieves, translated by the author, and Manon Steffan Ros @ManonSteffanRos , for The Blue Book of Nebo, translated by Lise Garond.
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📚Here are the titles that flew out of our warehouse last month. 📚Available now from your local bookshop. #ChooseBookshop @graffeg_books | @YLolfa | @CarregGwalch
Fast Movers English Titles for Adults November 2024 1.VOICES ON THE PATH -Andrew Green 2. TEACH YOUR DOG WELSH - Anne 3. THE SIX NATIONS RUGBY QUIZ BOOK - Matthew Jones 4. TEACH YOUR CAT WELSH - Anne Cakebread 5. SWANSEA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Bernard Lewis 6. QUIET MUSIC OF GENTLY FALLING SNOW - Jackie Morris 7. WELSH VALLEYS PHRASEBOOK - David Jandrell 8. BRITISH WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 12 - Will Nicholls 9. QUICK READS: FIVE NIGHTS OUT - Hugh Warwick 10. NIGEL OWENS: THE FINAL WHISTLE - Nigel Owens, Paul Abbandonato

ALT Fast Movers English Titles for Adults November 2024 1.VOICES ON THE PATH -Andrew Green 2. TEACH YOUR DOG WELSH - Anne 3. THE SIX NATIONS RUGBY QUIZ BOOK - Matthew Jones 4. TEACH YOUR CAT WELSH - Anne Cakebread 5. SWANSEA AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Bernard Lewis 6. QUIET MUSIC OF GENTLY FALLING SNOW - Jackie Morris 7. WELSH VALLEYS PHRASEBOOK - David Jandrell 8. BRITISH WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 12 - Will Nicholls 9. QUICK READS: FIVE NIGHTS OUT - Hugh Warwick 10. NIGEL OWENS: THE FINAL WHISTLE - Nigel Owens, Paul Abbandonato

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