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Telling Wales' stories | Rhannu straeon #Cymru A non-fiction imprint of @uniwalespress.bsky.social, est. 2022 | Supported by the #Books Council of #Wales

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Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

📚️ Waterstones Wales Book of the Month 📚️ We are thrilled that the new paperback edition of 'Where the Folk: A Welsh Folklore Road Trip' by Russ Williams is the @waterstones.bsky.social Wales Book of the Month! Head to your nearest branch to pick up your copy 📚️

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Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 6d ago

One week to go! 'Gathering Days: A collection of things foraged and found' by Ellie Evelyn Orrell is publishing 6 August 🌿 Pre-order your copy now from your favourite local books 📚️

Book cover which features line drawings of a daffodil, grapes, leaves, a kettle, and a bottle. Text reads: Coming Soon 6 AugustI follow the patterns in ever-widening circles. Gathering dust in the heat of summer. Rainwater in all seasons. Occasional snow, glimpsed in the kernel of a persimmon seed. Bramble, acorn, hawthorn and cherry. Tracing the lines of a landscape and the patterns of a year. Towards a greater appreciation of what was there all along. Along the seasons of a year, Gathering Days recalls the ways in which the act of collecting might offer a sense of purpose in times of uncertainty. Walks across the fields and coasts of Wales bring encounters with stories from elsewhere – a quiet garden in Kyoto or a lamplit street in Seville. Woven together, these contemplations of land, self and place form a memoir that celebrates the small yet miraculous moments of everyday life, while asking the question of how we might steady ourselves against a landscape.
Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

This year's #Wales Nature Week theme celebrates engaging with the nature that's around you : ‘In Your Neighbourhood | Yn Eich Cynefin’ 🌲 Unsure where to begin? Why not read a nature poem, take a walk in a local woodland, or delving deeper into the language we use to describe the Welsh landscape 📚️

Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

✨📚 Congratulations to Calon author Gosia Buzzanca whose debut memoir 'There She Goes, My Beautiful World' has won the Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice Award! Congratulations to all the winners, and diolch to Literature Wales for a wonderful evening celebrating the best of Welsh literature!

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Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

Coming soon! We are only one month away from the publication of Ellie Evelyn Orrell's beautiful new book 'Gathering Days: A collection of things foraged and found' 📚️ Pre-order now from your favourite local bookshop!

Book cover which features line drawings of a daffodil, grapes, leaves, a kettle, and a bottle.I follow the patterns in ever-widening circles. Gathering dust in the heat of summer. Rainwater in all seasons. Occasional snow, glimpsed in the kernel of a persimmon seed. Bramble, acorn, hawthorn and cherry. Tracing the lines of a landscape and the patterns of a year. Towards a greater appreciation of what was there all along. Along the seasons of a year, Gathering Days recalls the ways in which the act of collecting might offer a sense of purpose in times of uncertainty. Walks across the fields and coasts of Wales bring encounters with stories from elsewhere – a quiet garden in Kyoto or a lamplit street in Seville. Woven together, these contemplations of land, self and place form a memoir that celebrates the small yet miraculous moments of everyday life, while asking the question of how we might steady ourselves against a landscape.
Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

📚️ Event this Sunday! 📚️ Join Mikey Bell in conversation about his new book 'How an Egg Changed My Life', a tender, funny blend of memoir, cookbook and nostalgic observation on what it takes to feel fulfilled. 📆 Sunday 12 July 🕟️ 4:30pm, 📍 Llety Arall, Gŵyl Arall 🎟️ gwylarall.com/calendr/2026...

Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 4w ago

‘Dylai fod copi ymhob ystafell ddosbarth hanes.’ Adolygiad arbennig o 'Welsh Women on This Day' gan Mared Llywelyn yn rhifyn diweddaraf Hanes Byw! Dewch o hyd i gopi o'r gyfrol a'r cylchgrawn yn eich siop lyfrau leol!

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Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

Tomorrow! Join @emilygarside.bsky.social at @queerbritain.bsky.social for a fascinating afternoon discussing queer Welsh icons with Lisa Power 📚 🕝 2:30pm 📆 27 June 📍Queer Britain, 2 Granary Square, London, N1C 4BH 🎟️ www.outsavvy.com/event/33534/...

Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌈 📚️ New Events Added 📚️ 🌈 Join @emilygarside.bsky.social for even more events across June and July! Emily will be speaking about her new book 'Rainbow Wales: Queer Icons Past and Present 📚️

Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Llongyfarchiadau @emilygarside.bsky.social on being included in the Wales Online 2026 Pinc List! 🩷🌈 Celebrating the achievements of the most influential LGBTQ+ people in Wales, have a look at the whole list here 👇 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

The 2026 Pinc List as we name the most influential LGBT+ people in Wales

In its 11th year our Pinc List recognises those going the extra mile to further the lives of LGBT+ people in Wales

walesonline.co.uk

Calon@calonbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Indie Bookshops week! This week we are celebrating 20 years of #IndieBookshopWeek! What better way than to visit your favourite local bookshop? Featured bookshops: 📚️ North Books, Hay-on-Wye 📚️ Gay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye 📚️ Palas Print, Caernarfon

BildWindow display at Gay-on-Wye with Rainbow Wales displayed. Book cover features a pink paintbush painting a rainbow over a plain blue backgroundBildNightshade Mother on a shelf. Cover features a nightshade plant wrapping suffocatingly around the title.
Mike Parker@mikeparker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is tomorrow! Should be a fun chat with Alex about his fascinating and very entertaining romp through a century of Welsh literature. So much to chew over, and all in the care of the truly brilliant @montylitfest.bsky.social. Best cakes on the circuit.

Monty Lit Fest@montylitfest.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are you ready to take the Alex Johnson time challenge and discover Wales through its feast of writing? @mikeparker.bsky.social finds out how brave Alex has been at Monty Lit Fest on June 13th 😆 montylitfest.com?page_id=9077 @calonbooks.bsky.social