Tag: Welsh
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12th November 2024 – Drift by Caryl Lewis
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBUT FROM THREE-TIME WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR CARYL LEWIS: A STORY OF LOVE, MAGIC AND THE IRRESISTIBLE LURE OF THE SEA. Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery cove. Hamza is a Syrian mapmaker,…
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9th May 2023 – I Bought A Mountain by Thomas Firbank
First published in 1940, this is a much-loved book of North Wales by a young man who buys 5,000 acres in Snowdonia. Written on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir tells the remarkable story of how 21-year-old Thomas Firbank decided on impulse to purchase a 2,400-acre hill farm in the rugged, inhospitable…
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11th April 2023 – That Green Eyed Girl by Julie Owen Moylan *AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE*
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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14th March 2023 – Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Mammals and birds are widely seen as the smartest creatures on earth. But one other branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. New research shows that these marvellous creatures display remarkable gifts, with each of their tentacles even…
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13th December 2022 – The Sheriff of Geneva by Richard Williams
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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11th October 2022 – Four Dervishes by Hammad Rind
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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8th March 2022 – Llyfr Glas Nebo | The Blue Book of Nebo gan | by Manon Steffan Ros
Sometimes, when the world around us behaves as weirdly as it does, we worry the prescience of some of the books we schedule may be somewhat unerring. Never moreso than this one!
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8pm, 12th Jan 2021 – In My Mind’s Eye by Jan Morris
Jan Morris, who passed away in November 2020, was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.
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8pm, 10th Aug 2021 – A Oes Heddwas | Bloody Eisteddfod gan | by Myfanwy Alexander
Daf is a busy, conscientious and humane Police Inspector who knows his patch and does his best to protect and improve the lives of those who belong there and those who come in. In August 2015 the Welsh-speaking world did come to Meifod, near the small town of Llanfair Caereinion, and the author imagines what…
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8pm, 12th February – Blasu / The Seasoning by Manon Steffan Ros
For the first time, we’re offering the chance to read the book of the month in either Welsh or English. We’re excited to have a bilingual discussion and it’d be even better if you can devour both versions of this modern masterpiece. Peggy is eighty and the family are having a birthday party. Her son’s…
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8pm, 10th July 2018 – We Don’t Know What We’re Doing by Thomas Morris
Winner of the Wales Book of the Year 2016 A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an…
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