Join the Booktober challenge!
- Want to read more but don’t know where to start?
- Can’t find the time for some me-time?
- Need an autumn challenge to focus on?
If you’re finding it hard to take time out to relax, or if you’d love to read more but never seem to have long enough to lose yourself in a good book, the Booktober challenge is a great way to start.
The challenge is to read one book a week during October. This special collection of short books by well-known authors offers the perfect way to delve into a book – even if you only have a few minutes a day.
Why not join the challenge and check out the reading list below – available now from your local bookshop.
WEEK 1
Folding Rock 002: Speak to Me
Folding Rock is a bold magazine publishing the best short fiction, creative non-fiction and literary criticism from Wales and beyond. In this sophomore issue, some of the most inventive writers working in or connected to Wales ‘speak to us’ as they probe the boundaries of language and communication.
WEEK 2
Cling Film
Cling Film, explores existing as a young Disabled woman within an ableist and inaccessible world. Set in familiar Welsh places – from the Heath Hospital in Cardiff to Mynydd Mawr, these formally inventive poems disrupt preconceptions of disability in ways that are striking, astute, and devastatingly exact.
WEEK 3
Love Letters on the River
Describing encounters and missed encounters with the wildlife that surrounds the Teifi, Love Letters on the River is a lyrical, honest and tender tribute to the many creatures – both in the garden and beyond the garden wall – that bring joy to Carly’s life simply by existing.
WEEK 4
Gwrachod Cymru | Welsh Witches
An illustrated and categorised guide to the witches of Wales. Efa Lois gathers witches from Welsh folklore, history, popular and contemporary culture, bringing their stories to life through her research and vibrant illustrations. With an introduction about the history of witches in Wales by folklorist Juliette Wood.
