Pembrokeshire bookshop

  • Events for Booklovers and Writers in 2026

    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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  • We’re delighted to welcome Carly Holmes to Chapter One in July to talk about her new book, Love Letters on the River, a collection of essays on the River Teifi and its wildlife, beautifully illustrated by Tenby artist Guy Manning and published by Parthian Books on 10th July. Tickets can be booked here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/TNN5QY8R7VBBG Or

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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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  • ‘One of the best ways to learn is to have a Welsh-speaking lover who cannot speak English. Otherwise read publications in Welsh, watch Welsh tv, listen to Welsh radio … Start your reading with children’s comics and children’s books. You need to be voracious. You must make yourself a sponge. Bit by bit it will come.’

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  • 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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  • 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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