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JOB VACANCYEvents and Marketing Assistant Griffin Books has a vacancy for a Events and Marketing Assistant based in our shop in Penarth, South Wales.The role will involve supporting the Events and Communications Manager to: deliver a busy annual programme of high profile and professional author events, including: involvement in creative programming liaising with publicists and authors booking venues preparing event materials and audience communications creating marketing materials including digital assets, flyers, posters etc. marketing events to a wide variety of audiences to drive ticket sales book sales at events setting up for events and event management (in a supporting role)...

Penarth's Griffin Books has been shortlisted in the region of Wales for Independent Bookshop of the Year 2025 at the British Books Awards. The shop, which won the overall award in 2023, has been shortlisted in Wales alongside four other Welsh bookshops and sixty seven other indies nationwide. Owner Mel Griffin said "We are delighted to be nominated as a Regional and Country Finalist in Wales! It is always gratifying to be recognised by our industry, and it’s brilliant to be shortlisted alongside so many great bookshops that we consider to be stalwarts of the indie bookshop community."The regional winners will...

The owner of Penarth’s award-winning independent bookshop, Mel Griffin, has revealed plans to extend the business this spring. Griffin Books - located at the entrance to Windsor Arcade on Penarth’s high street - will more than double in size when it opens a dedicated children’s department in the next door premises from April.  The space is currently occupied by independent gift retailer Gifts@No.9. Business owner, Cathy Evans, announced on social media last month that she will close Gifts@No.9 at the end of March to spend more time with her grandchildren and concentrate on her new venture Knit1Purl1 on Glebe Street....

Tickets are selling fast for our event with the founder of parkrun, Paul Sinton-Hewitt! Paul's new book One Small Step is the story of a simple idea that turned into a global movement. This is the history of PARKRUN, told for the very first time by the man who started it all. Filled with hope and optimism, One Small Step is a powerful affirmation of how coming together in simple ways can change our own lives and might even change the world.Click here for more information and to buy tickets.