The International Velvet tour resumes on Weds 11 Sept at The Hours Cafe & Bookshop in Brecon at 6.30pm with acclaimed writer, Richard King. Richard is the author of bestselling Faber Books titles including Brittle With Relics: A History of Wales 1962–1997. Admission is FREE!

Grab your tickets for the official launch of 'Slingshot' by ogun, joined by special guests Lily Webbe and Saili Katebe ✨️ Tickets and information available on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/slingshot-bo…

Hosting Gwyl Glyndwr in Capel Moriah, Llanfyllin, for Owain Glyndwr Day. With… Jon Gower Rhys Mwyn Robert Minhinnick, Arfon Hughes, Julie Brominicks, Richard Henderson and music set TBC TICKETS: tickettailor.com/events/gwylgly… Cadw Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru Literature Wales Nation.Cymru

THE TEAM 💜 It's the best feeling in the world to come to work when you're surrounded by brilliant people who are so passionate about the job that they do. Thank you to everyone who came to the shop yesterday to help us celebrate our 10th birthday! 🎉

Calling all #poets! Our poetry submissions are now open for new collections of 55pp or more & pamphlets up to 25pp (max). Submit your work for consideration by 5pm Monday 30th September. Visit our submissions page for details serenbooks.com/submissions/. Zoë Brigley Rhian Edwards

📚Only Three Votes by Gwynoro Jones with Alun Gibbard is our September #BookoftheMonth. ⬇Read an extract from the introduction by Mark Drakeford MS on Nation.Cymru: nation.cymru/feature/i-am-h… 📚Available now from your local bookshop. #ChooseBookshops

“The Cool Cymru era moved the goalposts in Wales in that there isn’t that heavy burden of representing your country any more…Artists are deemed on their own merit.” Great feature on International Velvet in Saturday’s Western Mail. Thanks Jenny White & WalesOnline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿!

🎟️Book Tokens - the best gift for booklovers of all ages! 📚Available from your local bookshop. ✏️Card design: Torri a Gludo #ChooseBookshops

📚Raz Beri by Matt Stephens is our #ChildrensBookOfTheMonth. ⚽️Billy has had enough of school bullies. So when a famous footballer comes to visit, Billy tries to prove that he's just like his classmates. ✨With new friend Mia...anything is possible. #ChooseBookshops

Our Author of the Month is Catrin Kean! Her second novel Lace is the sequel to the prizewinning novel Salt, & is published with Gwasg Honno Press What influenced Catrin as a young person, & what are her favourite reading genres? Read our interview to find out! libraries.wales/aotm/catrin-ke…

We are busy reading submissions here! 📢📢📢Don't forget that your last chance to submit poems to MODRON will be this coming Monday 9th Sept. We are always open to article pitches though. modronmagazine.com/2024/08/06/mod…

📚Passionate about reading and books from Wales? We’re looking for new volunteers to join 🔹Our Independent Publishing Development Subcommittees (both Welsh and English) 🔹Reading Promotion Subcommittee ⬇️More information: llyfrau.cymru/en/swyddi-gwir… 📅27 September 2024

Happy 10th Birthday 📚 Griffin Books 📚! Visit this fab independent shop in Penarth for a copy of International Velvet. There’s great titles available from some of the best writers in Wales including Huw Stephens, RJP, Tiffany Murray, Louise Mumford & Carole Hailey!

📚Support bookshops in Wales: 🔹Pop into your local bookshop today 🔹Buy a book through their website 🔹Follow an independent bookshop on social media. #LoveReading #ChooseBookshops

Storyville Books 📕 is one such excellent bookshop here in Pontypridd.

🎉Happy International #LiteracyDay 📚We promote reading for pleasure to encourage, inspire and share a love of reading for all. 📚Our vision is for a Wales where everyone can be a reader, and where everyone has access to books irrespective of their ability to afford them.

We have a wonderful guest post this weekend from the brilliant Rae Howells. Rae Howells is writing about saving commonland and a campaign which inspired her new poetry collection from Parthian Books This Common Uncommon. An inspiring read! Books Council of Wales modronmagazine.com/2024/09/08/a-c…

Learn more about Bernard Lewis' new book, Swansea and the Second World War, by listening to Goodeveningswansea podcast, link below! Books Council of Wales #swansea

✨Celebrating M. Wynn Thomas at 80! Join us for an afternoon of creative and critical discussion of Welsh writing in English to launch ‘Transatlantic Vistas’, and celebrate the 80th birthday of our foremost literary scholar📚 📍Swansea University and online 🗓️23 September 🕒3-7:30pm

Caring for someone with dementia? #ReadingWell books can offer personal stories and advice to relatives and carers. 📚Free to borrow from your library. ⬇️Further information can be found below: readingagency.org.uk/get-reading/ou… #WorldAlzheimersMonth #ReadingWell