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The Rhondda Book Fair 2017 is fast approaching, and this year Parthian's Richard Davies, Sion Tomos Owen, and Rachel Trezise will be attending. The fair, organised by Colin R. Parsons (children's and Young Adult fiction author), will see a lineup of twenty-five authors from different genres attending, with the opportunity to buy books and have them signed. There will also be author panels throughout the day where you can sit and listen, or ask questions yourself, and these will be chaired by Matt Lees. The fair, now in its third year, will have a special guest - the new Mayor of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Councillor...

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The annual PENfro Book Festival has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2011, returning this year for the seventh time from 7th -10th September. Set in the heart of West Wales against the idyllic backdrop of Rhosygilwen, the festival celebrates the quality and diversity of contemporary writing in Wales, with the aim of bringing such works to a new audience, whilst also recognising the often-unappreciated contribution of local publishers and booksellers. The weekend will play host to an array of events, this year centred around the theme of The Year of the Legend. The festival offers visitors...

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2017, August 2017, Author of the Month, Bad Ideas\Chemicals, Lloyd Markham, Parthian Books -

As his debut novel, Bad Ideas\Chemicals, was released last month, Lloyd Markham is our Author of the Month for August.   About Lloyd: Lloyd was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, before he and his family moved and settled in Bridgend, South Wales. He describes his teenage years as ‘miserable and strange and consisting of bad nights out’ before he embarked upon a degree in Creative Writing at the then University of Glamorgan, which is now the University of South Wales. Lloyd also earned an MPhil from the University of South Wales. He enjoys noise music, Japanese animation and the documentaries...

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To Hear the Skylark's Song, an evocative memoir of childhood in Aberfan by former Education minister Huw Lewis is being serialised in the Western Mail from today. The book described by Tessa Hadley as 'A thoughtful and passionate memoir, moving and respectful’ is a story of what it was like to grow up in a Valley’s community in the 70s: a thriving place of people, shops, clubs, chapel concerts, coal mines, interwoven with gossip and stories and, of course, the annual bus trip to Barry Island. To Hear the Skylark's Song is available to order from our website here.

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Books, Cardiff, Diverse Wales, Leonora Brito, Library of Wales, Reviews, Short Story, Tiger Bay, Wales, Wales Arts Review -

'Dat’s Love creates an enduring impression of a contemporary Welsh literary giant in-the-making. Through her extant body of short stories, we can only begin to acknowledge the loss of a prodigious literary artist with a breathtaking imagination who was only just warming up. Her depictions of the bustling and multicultural Tiger Bay and Cardiff, and its inhabitants – especially the African diaspora community – are invaluable. Each reading of the collection reveals something new and continues to leave the reader stunned at the nimble skill of Brito’s writing – that deservedly won her the Rhys Davies Short Story Award in...

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