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The weather is now well and truly wintery...which is perfect reading weather!

Why not curl up with @shedworking.bsky.social's wonderful book about books 'My Year of Reading Welshly: Discovering Wales in 52 Books' and find some inspiration for your next read too!

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November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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'...an uplifting account of how Gosia was able to find acceptance of her past and build a life of love in wales.'

Thrilled to see Gosia Buzzanca's 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' as one of Stylist's 8 Memoirs to Change How You See the World!

Discover more: www.stylist.co.uk/books/best-m...
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Join author Gosia Buzzanca at Cwtsh, Newport! Gosia will be speaking about her debut memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' 📚

🕢 7:30pm
📅 28 November
🎟️ £3
📍 Cwtsh Community & Arts Centre, Newport
Gosia Buzzanca Emerging Polish-Welsh writer. Emerging Polish-Welsh writer Gosia Buzzanca shares her books, There She Goes, My Beautiful World, and her journey from post-communist Poland to South Wales, ac part of Art on the Hill. Fel rhan o Art on the Hill, Bydd Gosia Buzzanca, awdur Pwylaidd-Gymreig sy'n dod i'r amlwg, yn rhannu ei llyfr, There She Goes, My Beautiful World, a'r thaith o Wald Pwyl ol-gomiwnyddol i Dde Cymru. Starts at 7:30pm on Friday, November 28th 2025 at the Cwtsh. Admission £3 Licensed Bar available. Disabled Access. Yn dechrau am 7:30pm ddydd Gwener, Tachwedd 28ain 2025 yn y Cwtsh. Mynediad £3. Bar trwyddedig ar gael. Mynediad i'r Anabl.
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Calan Gaeaf Hapus and happy #Halloween! 🎃

In need of some last minute costume inspiration or perhaps you prefer spending Halloween night curled up with a good #book?

We have plenty of otherworldly tales and characters for you to discover...📚👻
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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New Events!

Author Gosia Buzzanca will be at events throughout November, discussing her debut memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' 📚
Book Tour There She Goes, My Beautiful World. 1 November - Book Space, Cardiff 2 November - Aberaeron Literary Festival 6 November - Griffin Books, Penarth 28 November - Cwtsh, Newport
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Out now!

Gosia Buzzanca's memoir of her extraordinary ordinary life is available now!

Pick up your copy now from your favourite local bookshop or via the link below 📚

www.uwp.co.uk/book/there-s...
Text reads Out Now! Book cover which is a pale blue and features a polaroid photo of a you Gosia playing with a guitar. What does ‘home’ mean? Is it where you come from, or is it somewhere that you have to create for yourself, building brick by brick on the ruins and treasures of everything that has gone before? In this compelling memoir, Gosia Buzzanca tells the story of a young woman who leaves Poland at the age of nineteen in search of a bigger life, hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind her. After studying in England, she finds a rich new tapestry of experience awaiting her in Wales, with intertwined threads of love and literature, hope and despair. Motherhood brings new joys, but the pain of the past must be faced before this new life by the seaside can truly feel like home. With the fearless honesty of a poet, Gosia offers her account of an extraordinary ordinary life where every flavour is tasted, every moment lived to its fullest. This story of a lifelong quest for home will call to anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete, and who yearns to find a place where they belong.
October 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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One week to go!

Pre-order your copy of 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World', Gosia Buzzanca's debut memoir. This story of a lifelong quest for home will call to anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete, and who yearns to find a place where they belong.

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/there-s...
Vibrant - Gwyneth Lewis A Moving exploration of identity - Jessica Andrews Enchanting - Rachel Tresize Fearless - Ariel Gore Richly Poetic - Hanan Issa Beautiful - Lucia Osborne-Crowley Vulnerable, melancholic but unafraid - Anthony Shapland What does ‘home’ mean? Is it where you come from, or is it somewhere that you have to create for yourself, building brick by brick on the ruins and treasures of everything that has gone before? In this compelling memoir, Gosia Buzzanca tells the story of a young woman who leaves Poland at the age of nineteen in search of a bigger life, hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind her. After studying in England, she finds a rich new tapestry of experience awaiting her in Wales, with intertwined threads of love and literature, hope and despair. Motherhood brings new joys, but the pain of the past must be faced before this new life by the seaside can truly feel like home. With the fearless honesty of a poet, Gosia offers her account of an extraordinary ordinary life where every flavour is tasted, every moment lived to its fullest. This story of a lifelong quest for home will call to anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete, and who yearns to find a place where they belong.
October 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Wonderful to hear author Sarah Siân Chave speak about her new book on Radio Bath's Earth Matters!

Listen from 7:11 www.mixcloud.com/radiobath/ea...
Cover of Hafren which features a colourful illustration of the Severn Bridge at sunset.
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📚 New event! 📚

Join author Marc P. Jones who will be speaking about his book 'The Long Unwinding Road: A Journey Through the Heart of Wales' at The Cwtsh Arts Centre, Newport.
Starts 7:30pm on Friday, October 3rd 2025 at the Cwtsh. Admission £. Licensed bar available. Disabled access. Yn dechrau am 7:30pm nos wener, Hydref 3ydd 2025 yn y Cwtsh Mynediad £3 bar trwyddedig ar gael. Mynediad i'r anabl.
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Coming soon!

Gosia Buzzanca's debut memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' will be publishing on 23 October.

Pre-order now from your favourite local bookshop or through the link below 📚

www.uwp.co.uk/book/there-s...
Coming Soon! 23 October What does ‘home’ mean? Is it where you come from, or is it somewhere that you have to create for yourself, building brick by brick on the ruins and treasures of everything that has gone before? In this compelling memoir, Gosia Buzzanca tells the story of a young woman who leaves Poland at the age of nineteen in search of a bigger life, hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind her. After studying in England, she finds a rich new tapestry of experience awaiting her in Wales, with intertwined threads of love and literature, hope and despair. Motherhood brings new joys, but the pain of the past must be faced before this new life by the seaside can truly feel like home. With the fearless honesty of a poet, Gosia offers her account of an extraordinary ordinary life where every flavour is tasted, every moment lived to its fullest. This story of a lifelong quest for home will call to anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete, and who yearns to find a place where they belong.
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The natural world is so often the inspiration for art, music, and poetry. ‘The Rising of the Lark’ was collected in the 1870s by Welsh poet and musicologist John Ceiriog Hughes.
Ceiriog, a Welsh poet and musicologist, spent his final years on Hafren’s banks at Caersws, Powys. I feel a connection reaching back to him to him as I listen to the piano notes and rushing water blend.
September 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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In ‘Hafren: The Wisdom of the River Severn’, author Sarah Siân Chave visits a waterfall along the route of the #river to experience its intensity.

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What a beautiful waterfall near Hafren’s source! In Celtic traditions, sources of water provide wisdom and streams and rivers are a way that such wisdom is spread and communicated. Waterfalls are places where wisdom is intensified. But we have to pause, listen to what rivers are communicating, and, as the poet Mary Oliver argues, ‘unstuff our ears of selfhood’. 
September 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Waterfalls are ethereal places and have long been significant in #folklore. They are often the places where people pause for rest on long walks and are spaces of quiet contemplation.
September 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. 'Nightshade Mother' is a book about the power of art, language and, ultimately, about homecoming after a lifetime of exile from herself.

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Cover of Nightshade Mother which features a nightshade plant tightly wrapping around the title.
September 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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🎇📚 SHORTLISTED! 📚🎇

We are absolutely delighted that Gwyneth Lewis's bold and honest memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts Literature award!

Make sure to tune in to the ceremony on 16 September!

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'Remarkable' Adam Phillips 'Dangerous' M. Wynn Thomas 'Moving' Rowan Williams 'Astonishing' Pascale Petit 'Extraordinary' Tom Bullough 'Compelling, radical and moving' alice hiller
September 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Did you know that the source of Hafren, the River Severn, is rainwater? This gathers into pools on the high Pumlumon peatland plateau in the Cambrian Mountains, mid Wales…

Discover more in ‘Hafren: The Wisdom of the River Severn’ by Sarah Siân Chave, available in your favourite local bookshop 📚
In Welsh folklore these pools formed when the giant who slumbers under Pumlumon awoke and, on looking around, shed tears as there were no pools or rivers crossing his land. He nurtured the peatland, the pools and the nymphs, his daughters, who lived in the pools, until the nymphs grew up, became rivers, including Hafren and set off on their journeys to the sea We, too, need to appreciate and value peatlands. Estimates indicate peatlands cover 3% of the worlds surface but hold 30% per cent of the stored store. Twelve percent of the world’s peatlands are in the UK.
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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In need of some last minute plans for the long weekend? Your local bookshop has everything you need 📚
Stack of Shaping the Wild paperbacks Welsh Women on This Day Loud Medicine
August 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Out now!

Discover the secret history of the River Severn in ‘Hafren: The Wisdom of the River Severn’ by Sarah Siân Chave.

Pick up your copy from your favourite local bookshop or through the link below!

📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/hafren-...
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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📚 Hafren Book Tour! 📚

Join Sarah Siân Chave at bookshops and festivals along and around Hafren this summer and autumn!

First stop at Griffin Books is now sold out so make sure to snap up your free spot for Chepstow!

🕖 7pm
📅 2 September
🎟️ FREE
📍 Chepstow Library
27 August - Griffin Books 2 September - Chepstow Books 7 September - Shrewsbury Lit Fest 27 September - Hawkesbury Upton Lit Fest  16 November - Clifton Lit Fest
August 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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When crossing Hafren, the River Severn, most people are struck by the impressive bridge which stretches across it.

But what lies beneath? And what significance did this long river that stretches deep into Wales and England have for the people who crossed it long before any bridges were ever built?
Coming Soon! 21 August! Also featured is the cover of 'Hafren' which has a blue and earth-toned abstract illustration of Hafren (the River Severn) and the Severn Bridge stretching across it. Afon Hafren, the river Severn, is a mighty Welsh river. She has shaped many histories and is part of many stories. In Celtic traditions, water is a source of wisdom. In a time of ecological crisis, how can we listen to the wisdom of Hafren? Sarah Siân Chave takes us on a journey from Hafren’s source to the sea, following Hafren’s route from Pumlumon in Wales and meandering through England, before she finds her way back home to Wales and to the sea. The journey weaves together Celtic myths, historical and personal narratives as well as Welsh words and ideas. Hafren not only speaks to the wisdom of this river, but of all rivers, encouraging readers to understand better their place as part of nature. This book will appeal to those interested in nature, sustainability and ecology, and also to those interested in Celtic and Welsh traditions, histories and myths and is evocatively illustrated by Sarah’s sister, Rachel Collis.
August 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Wrth ein boddau yn gweld nifer o lyfrau Calon ar stondin Siop Inc yn yr @eisteddfod.cymru!
Copies of Tir, Where the Folk, The Water Remedy, and Rebecca's Country stacked on bookcases on Siop Inc's stand Copies of Nightshade Mother, A Map of Love, Poems from the Soul, and The Art of Losing on bookshelves on the Siop Inc stand.
August 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Lovely to see author David Elias stopping by Waterstones Aberystwyth to sign new paperback copies of his book 'Shaping the Wild: Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm'!

'Shaping the Wild' is August @waterstones.bsky.social Welsh Book of the Month 📚

Head to your local @Waterstones to pick up your copy!
Photo of author David Elias sat signing copies at a table stacked with paperback copies of his book.
August 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Calon ar y maes!

Mae llawer o lyfrau Calon ar stondin Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru yn yr @eisteddfod.cymru!

Ewch yno i bori trwy lyfrau ar hanes, llên gwerin, cofiannau a mwy 📚
Lots of books on a shelf including Where the Folk, The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts, Tir: The Story of the Welsh Landscape, and Seascape Loud Medicine and Nightshade Mother on a shelf
August 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Offer ends tomorrow!

Head to the @waterstones.bsky.social website or app and use the code SUMMER25 for 25% off pre-orders of 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' and 'Hafren'!

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Cover of Hafren which features a colourful illustration of the river Hafren with each colour washing over it and the bridge in waves. Text alongside it reads WATERSTONES 25% OFF On Upcoming Books Pre-order now with code: SUMMER25 28-31 July | Online Only Cover of There She Goes, My Beautiful World by Gosia Buzzanca which has a pale blue background and features a polaroid photo of Gosia when young. The text alongside it reads WATERSTONES 25% OFF On Upcoming Books. Pre-order now with code SUMMER25 28-31 July | Online Only
July 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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'Good Well Hunting', a beautiful extract of Clare Gogerty's 'The Water Remedy' in the most recent issue of The Simple Things Magazine!

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Book cover of The Water Remedy which features swirling illustrated waves in the background, scattered with stars, bubbles, and fish tails.
July 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM