narberth bookshop
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It’s lovely to see so many of you in Chapter One bookshop at the moment, getting Christmas presents in, and thanks for your support. But we’ve not forgotten 2026 is just round the corner and we’re pleased to invite you to our January events.
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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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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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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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We had our final Local Writing For Wellbeing workshop last Tuesday, with the theme of community. Lorna steered us to create a group poem based on what we’d written in previous sessions, and any inspiration which had come from us writing new labels for objects in the museums. I don’t think any of us anticipated
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It’s hard to imagine a better setting than a bookshop in a museum for our most recent writing workshop on local stories. Lorna has done some fascinating research into the history of printing in Narberth, resulting in this discovery about Boris Pasternak’s first edition of ‘Doctor Zhivago’. And this broadened out into a discussion of
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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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