Jim Keeble available for author events

Jim Keeble is an acclaimed novelist and scriptwriter. He is currently working on the BBC series Silent Witness. His new novel The Happy Numbers of Julius Miles is about the impossibility of being a modern dad and the pressure of the 'have-it-all' society.
For more information about this book, you can click on:
http://www.almabooks.com/the-happy-numbers-of-julius-miles-p-387-book.html
To set up an event with Jim please contact eminervini@almabooks.com

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Storytime with Jenny Sullivan

Award winning Welsh author Jenny Sullivan will be visiting Rhydypennau Library, Cardiff on Friday 2nd March at 2pm to deliver an extra special Storytime to preschool children.

This is a free event and booking is essential. To reserve a place telephone 029 2075 4657 or email rhydypennaulibrary@cardiff.gov.uk

www.cardiff.gov.uk/libraryevents

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Brilliance by Anthony McCarten

Brilliance deals with the life of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, who - short of money - is captivated by the charismatic figure of J.P. Morgan, the 'world's banker'. He accepts Morgan's offer of almost unlimited cash in return for helping him change the way the world does business. In the process, Edison sees himself descend from being a godlike inventor of electric light to being complicit in the invention of the electric chair. This book is very topical and chimes in with the Wall Street and St Paul's anti-capitalist 'occupy movement'.

Email Elisabetta Minervini (eminervini@almabooks.com) if you are interested in proofs for your reading group (Only 8 sets of 5 available) or if you would like Anthony to visit your library.

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Gwas y Neidr

Cardiff Central Library presents
FREE LIVE MUSIC with
Gwas y Neidr

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Get Active

Race down to your library.
Get Active at Cardiff Central Library.

Get into Libraries. Get into Sport. Get into Play. Get inspired!

Join sports stars Jamie Baulch, Nathan Stephens, The Blues and The Devils.

Get free Sports Tasters and follow the Active Fit Squad. Freestyle Football, Karate, Street Dance, Table Tennis and much more.

Wednesday 2nd November
10am to 4pm

For more details contact 029 2038 2116 or email centrallibrary@cardiff.gov.uk

Libraries Fortnight 1-14 November 2011

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Capital Reads: A Festival of Words

Capital Reads: A Festival of Words
Saturday 22nd October, 9.45am - 5.00pm
Cardiff Central Library, The Hayes, 029 2038 2116

Drop by and join in our events including:

• Meet the author: award-winning adult, children, and teenage authors throughout the day, including Kristina Taylor, Shelagh Weeks, Maggie Harris, Richard Gwyn, Clare Potter, Damian Harvey, and Lucy Christopher
• Reading Groups - be a fly on the wall!
• Creative writing
• Poetry and prose performances in English, Welsh, Arabic, Urdu and Punjabi
• Activities for children including stories and a make your own comic workshop
• eBook demonstrations

For more information including a detailed timetable of activities, please visit
www.cardiff.gov.uk/libraryevents

In partnership with: Cardiff Libraries, Welsh Government, St. David's Hall, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Short Books, Macmillan Children's Books, Bookgroup.info, and BVSNW (Black Voluntary Sector Network Wales).

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Author Available: Trilby Kent, Smoke Portrait

Trilby Kent is available for library events, reading groups sessions and readers' days. Children aged 10+. Trilby would also be happy to talk to classes of students.

To set up an event, please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info about the book, please visit http://www.almabooks.com/stones-for-my-father-p-384-book.html

Stones for My Father deals with the second Boer war, and gives quite an uncompromisingly critical appraisal of the English repression of the Boers at the beginning of the twentieth century. It's the story of a young girl and of his family, and their trials as they are pushed away from their farm and imprisoned in a concentration camp.
The author is a descendant of the Boer war hero Danie Theron.

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History Day, Cardiff Central Library

Celebrating our local history at Cardiff Central Library.

A programme of free local history talks and information stands.

Enter our history competition - full information can be found on the Library blog - page 35 at http://cardifflibraries.blogspot.com to win a great prize.

For more information, contact: centrallibrary@cardiff.gov.uk or call 029 2038 2116.

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Reader Development Day for all the family, Cardiff

22 October

We will be holding a Reader's Development day for adults and children alike in October. At the daytime event we will be offering advice on reading groups, Dads and lads (reading with your children), Ethnic and Welsh language titles, creative writing, author talks, reading group meetings, children's groups and many extra opportunities. In the evening event we will have quizzes and fun events plus a headliner author will talk. If you are interested in being involved, have any freebies to give away, books to promote or your talents to offer, please contact Susanna.

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Glitter

January 2011

Glitter

Discover the latest fashion trends.
Be pampered - enjoy massage, facials, hair styling, make up, and nail art.
Indulge yourself with our chocolate fountain, bubbly and tasty treats.
Relax with live music from Jazz trio 'Reflections'.

Featuring a Fashion Show from the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries.

Cardiff Central Library
Friday 28th January, 7pm

Tickets £6 available from Cardiff Central Library.

Contact Laura Wood

Cardiff Central Library
The Hayes
029 2038 2116
centrallibrary@cardiff.gov.uk
www.cardiff.gov.uk/centrallibrary
www.facebook.com/cardiff.central.library

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Author available: Trilby Kent, "Smoke Portrait"

Trilby Kent, author of Smoke Portrait is available for events. Smoke Portrait is a universal story of love, loss and appearances.

A young woman writes letters to a prison inmate abroad as a charitable task - these letters, however, get misdirected to a teenager who pretends to be the prisoner and who has a very troubled situation at home. This is the start of a romantic friendship between the correspondents where each one wants the other one to believe they are someone else - a correspondence which will help them through some of the most challenging years of the past century.

To set up an event with Trilby please contact eminervini@almabooks.com and for more info on Trilby and her new book, please visit
http://www.almabooks.com/smoke-portrait-p-359-book.html

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Author available: Lindsay Clarke, The Water Theatre

September and October 2010

Lindsay Clarke is available to talk about his new book, The Water Theatre, "a powerful story of loyalty and loss, of betrayal and reconciliation." This is his first literary novel after the Chymical Wedding, winner of the Whitbread Award for Fiction in 1989.

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