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Last night  the 2024 Wales Book of the Year winners were announced at the award ceremony in Galeri Caernarfon. Find a list of the winners below. Click on each book title to view more details on our website. Overall English-language: Sarn Helen, Tom Bullough (Granta) Overall Welsh-language: Sut i Ddofi Corryn, Mari George (Sebra)   The category winners are: - Poetry AwardCowboy, Kandace Siobhan Walker (Cheerio Publishing) - The Rhys Davies Trust Fiction AwardThe Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone, Alex McCarthy (Doubleday) - The Bute Energy Children and Young People AwardSkrimsli, Nicola Davies (Firefly Press) - The nation.cymru People's Choice AwardIn Orbit, Glyn Edwards (Seren)

The Penarth Literary Festival returns this weekend with nine days of talks, signings, workshops and seminars guaranteed to delight book lovers of all ages. The Festival is organised by award-winning independent bookshop GRIFFIN BOOKS and events will take place in venues across Penarth from Saturday 15 to Sunday 23 June.This year’s festival has a distinctly Welsh flavour, with themes of Welsh identity and culture running through the programme. Champion of Welsh Music and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter HUW STEPHENS will be in conversation with fellow broadcaster BETHAN ELFYN about his new book Wales: 100 Records. Journalist and podcaster RORY...

Join us to welcome back Christian Lewis, author of Finding Hildasay and Hildasay to Home, to the shop this Easter Monday. In 2017 Chris set himself the challenge of walking the entire UK coastline, starting and ending on Llangennith Beach on the Gower Peninsula, after hitting rock bottom in his personal life. Little did he know just how long it would take him to cross the finish line, especially with a three-month stay on the abandoned island Hildasay during the first COVID lockdown, and that the encounters lying ahead would change his life forever, including meeting his now partner Kate....