independent bookshop Pembrokeshire

  • Christmas Book Gift Guide From Chapter One

    To help your Christmas shopping dilemmas, Chapter One manager Lorna and her trusty team of booksellers have come up with some recommendations. STOP PRESS: We’ve late night opening until 8pm on Friday, 5th December. Bar open too! Books For Children Ideal for 2-5 year olds, a new rhyming book from the much-loved Michael Rosen and

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  • Book Bar Christmas Cwtch and Poetry Competition

    Our Christmas themed Book Bar, takes place on Thursday, December 11th at 6pm. Tickets at £5 available here. You can look forward to mulled wine, mince pies, a reading of Richard Burton’s Christmas story plus poetry from our Great Welsh Icon competition poets. We’ll be celebrating Princess Nest, the Welsh dragon, the Preselis, Richard Burton,

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  • My Great Welsh Icon Poetry Competition

    Hello there, and to accompany the Richard Burton exhibition currently running at Narberth Museum, we’re running a poetry competition, on the theme of ‘My Great Welsh Icon’. So if you’re inspired to write a poem to a leek, daffodil, dragon, Nye Bevan or Charlotte Church, we would love to hear from you. All entries will

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  • Writing For Wellbeing: Getting In the Feelgood Writing Zone

    Thanks to those of you who’ve already booked, and we’re just a week away here from the start of our Writing For Wellbeing series of workshops. So we’ve been raiding the shelves in the bookshop for inspiration and ideas. For those of you who don’t know Narberth, it’s a small and most charming market town

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  • Book Bar Launch: Wine and Crisp Tasting

    Thanks to everyone who came along to our Book Bar launch on December 12th, we sold out of tickets beforehand – which with everyone squeezed in – heightened our convivial atmosphere. As somellier

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  • Local Author Interview: Inspired By Pembrokeshire, Phil Rowlands

    Following the unexpected death of his dad, when he was just twelve, Phil Rowlands describes how he sought solace and escape in the Pembrokeshire landscape. This is episode 2 in a three part interview with screenwriter, crime novelist and publisher Phil, who hails from Haverfordwest, so just down the road! Diamond Books, a publisher Phil

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  • So You’d Like To Write A Book? Author Event Summary

    To celebrate Independent Bookshop Day, we held our first author event at Chapter One, Narberth’s Independent Bookshop. We had a fine turnout of writers, some of whom

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  • Reader Review From Fiction Lover Dot: Sebastian Barry

    In our independent bookshop in Narberth, you can have hot drinks, cake and alcohol, and as much or as little conviviality as you would like. We love to talk books

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