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Lost Words Exhibition


The award-winning book, The Lost Words, uses stirring spell-songs and eye-catching illustrations to reintroduce the fading faces of nature to our vocabularies and in turn, inspire us to join the fight to reverse their plight.


In an unique partnership between Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales and two Welsh National Park Authorities, the best-selling book will be brought to life in exhibitions at Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd.

24th June 2023 - Spring 2024


Yr Ysgwrn, Trawsfynydd


Lost Words Exhibition


The award-winning book, The Lost Words, uses stirring spell-songs and eye-catching illustrations to reintroduce the fading faces of nature to our vocabularies and in turn, inspire us to join the fight to reverse their plight.


In an unique partnership between Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales and two Welsh National Park Authorities, the best-selling book will be brought to life in exhibitions at Oriel y Parc, St Davids

2nd July 2023 - Spring 2024


Oriel y Parc, St Davids


Be Spellbound by Jackie Morris and Mererid Hopwood and The Lost Words!


Children and adults alike will be spellbound by renowned artist Jackie Morris and poet Mererid Hopwood, with poetry, painting and a tour of The Lost Words exhibition at Oriel y Parc. 

11:30 on 24 March 2024


Oriel y Parc, St Davids


Storytime with author Ian Brown


Pop in store and meet author Ian Brown as he does a reading of his Albert the Tortoise books and signs his work.


Perfect for little ones all the up to 7 years old.

10:30 on 04 April 2024


Waterstones Orpington, Orpington


Storytime with author Ian Brown


Pop in store and meet author Ian Brown as he does a reading of his Albert the Tortoise books and signs his work.


Perfect for little ones all the up to 7 years old.

11:00 on 05 April 2024


Waterstones Bluewater, Bluewater


Tudor Renaissance: Genius in the Tudor World


Musicians and mathematicians, poets and painters, saints, sinners, and scientists: the Tudor age was filled with remarkable people, far beyond just the famous royal family and its courtiers.


In this day of talks by four experts from different fields, find out about the immense social, economic, and religious changes that allowed so much genius to flourish, and about the greatest musicians, writer, and painter of the century.

10:30 on 06 April 2024


Southwark Cathedral


Wild Wanderers at Huddersfield Literature Festival


With the aid of a giant world map, Dom will take children on a fun and exciting journey through the natural world to find out how hares adapt to climate, how sharks protect the air we breathe, how the wind brings life to the Amazon rainforest and how life without light would be a difficult thing.  

11:00 on 20 April 2024


Slaithwaite Library, Slaithwaite


1000 Tudor People


Discover the incredible lives and deaths of 1000 Tudor people with Melita Thomas, co-founder of Tudor Times, who will give an illustrated talk.

19:00 on 23 April 2024


Rossiter Books, Ross-on-Wye


1000 Tudor People


Discover the incredible lives and deaths of 1000 Tudor people with Melita Thomas, co-founder of Tudor Times, who will give an illustrated talk.

11:00 on 27 April 2024


Hengwrt, Llandeilo


Redwings Horse Sanctuary Book Festival


Redwings Caldecott will host the first ever Redwings Book Festival on Saturday 18th May celebrating an array of local and national authors who all tell moving and inspiring stories about animals, and especially horses.


Those attending include Joyce Dunbar, Elly Griffiths and Suzie Fletcher among many others!

10:00 on 18 May 2024


Redwings Caldecott, Norfolk


Hay Festival – Billie Charity and Boo La Croux talk to Ben Andrews


Join Boo and Billie as they present their new book capturing the art of drag in a farming community. They talk to Ben Andrews, an organic farmer born, raised and still living in Herefordshire and a founding member of Agrespect, a group set up to help promote LGBTQ+ diversity and inclusion in agriculture.

19:00 on 24 May 2024


Spring Stage, Hay Festival, 

Hay-on-Wye


© Charlie Carter

Hay Festival – Peter the Cat's Little Book of Big Words


What’s your favourite long word? Peter the Cat, a favourite character from Zeb Soanes’ Gaspard the Fox picture book series, always has the right one for any particular situation. Bring your thinking cap to join the author and Classic FM broadcaster as he introduces his feline friend and explains some of Peter’s favourite ‘big words’.

11:30 on 26 May 2024


Spring Stage, Hay Festival, 

Hay-on-Wye


© Claire Fear

Hay Festival – Stories in the Wilds


Come to a fun, story-generating workshop with Emma Bettridge and her dog Nell. During this inspiring outdoor session, you’ll walk to the River Wye where you’ll write, draw and record your stories, inspired by the river and its surrounding area. Emma Bettridge is a theatre producer, nature lover and children’s author whose books include Goodbye Hobbs and Red is Home.

10:00 on 26 May 2024

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13:00 on 26 May 2024


Wild Garden, Hay Festival, 

Hay-on-Wye


Storytime with author Ian Brown


Pop in store and meet author Ian Brown as he does a reading of his Albert the Tortoise books and signs his books.

11:00 on 28 May 2024


The Ivybridge Bookshop, Ivybridge


© Jenny Smith

Hay Festival – Sue Kent and Sarah Raven


Discover how to make your garden successful, whatever your abilities, and how to combine colours and pots for instant impact, from gardeners Sue Kent and Sarah Raven. Gardeners’ World presenter Kent is an RHS disability ambassador and RHS award-winning garden designer. 

11:30 on 30 May 2024


Global Stage, Hay Festival, 

Hay-on-Wye


Monty Lit Festival – Ray Howard-Jones


War artist. Sea painter. Mosaicist. Community theatre pioneer. Poet. The achievements of the Welsh woman artist, Ray Howard-Jones, were many and multifaceted. Yet although she was once renowned as one of the most important Welsh artists of the twentieth century, her work has more recently been overlooked and neglected.


Curator and writer, David Moore, wants to set the story straight and his stunning illustrated biography does much to rescue Howard-Jones’s reputation.

12:00 on 08 June 2024


Montgomery Town Hall, Montgomery