Books & Literature
Waun Wen school welcomes Amazon books donation
Waun Wen Primary School in Swansea has received a £1,000 donation for books from the team at Amazon’s fulfilment centre…
Libraries’ warm welcome saluted with national honour
Swansea's much-loved local library service has been honoured for offering a warm welcome to people seeking sanctuary.
Sketty library celebrates 100th birthday
Sketty's much-loved library is today celebrating a century of being at the heart of its community, turning the page on…
Council in search of local storyteller for new creative commission
The Dramatic Heart of Wales – the tourism campaign for Neath Port Talbot – has announced a collaboration with Literature…
Simpsons writer brings tortoise, dinosaur and yeti tales to Swansea for half-term
Children across Swansea could have close encounters with tortoises, yetis and dinosaurs this half-term thanks to a visit by TV…
Poet Laureate to visit Pembrokeshire as part of ten-year tour of UK libraries
The prestigious UK-wide Poet Laureate Library Tour will stop in Pembrokeshire this Spring with a reading by Simon Armitage included.
Much-loved community libraries see huge surge in visitors
Thrillers by famous authors like Richard Osman have helped see book fly off the shelves at Swansea's collection of community…
Library treasures to be displayed at city event
A number of treasures from the vaults of Swansea Council’s libraries service will go on public display this week
Big-hearted rugby legend Ray Gravell revealed as mystery figure who paid to get iconic singer out of jail early
Welsh rugby legend Ray Gravell has been revealed as the mystery figure who anonymously paid a fine to release iconic…
Artist pulps 6,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code and turns them into limited edition copies of 1984
Inspired by unwanted books in an Oxfam charity shop in Swansea, artist David Shrigley pulped copies of Dan Brown's best-seller…