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SUMMARY:Matthew Myerscough: In Search of Sea Dragons
DESCRIPTION:Step into the wild landscapes of Wales’s ancient past with Cardiff-based fossil hunter Matthew Myerscough\, as he talks about his remarkable debut book\, In Search of Sea Dragons: A Fossil Hunter’s Odyssey. \nFollowing a life-changing avalanche on the slopes of Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon)\, Matthew turned to fossil hunting as a way to slow down\, reconnect with the natural world\, and rebuild. What began as a hobby soon became a passion\, leading him to the windswept cliffs of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast\, the muddy banks of the River Severn\, and lesser-known fossil sites across South Wales and Dorset. \nMatthew will be talking about the book\, sharing stories from the field\, answering questions\, and offering insight for aspiring fossil hunters of all ages. We’ll be starting at a little earlier than usual at 6.30pm\, making this a family-friendly evening for anyone fascinated by fossils\, the natural world\, and the quiet thrill of discovery. \nAn inspiring\, thoughtful event for adults and young explorers alike.\n\nIn Search of Sea Dragons\nPart adventure narrative\, part practical guide\, Matthew charts his journey from novice to expert fossil hunter. Along the way\, he reflects on mindfulness\, wellbeing\, and personal growth\, while offering clear\, accessible advice for anyone curious about starting their own fossil-hunting adventures. Central to the book is his months-long search for a dream discovery: a complete ichthyosaur – and the question of whether it is the find itself\, or the journey towards it\, that matters most. \nMatthew Myerscough is a civil engineer and fossil hunter based in Cardiff\, now well known within the fossil-hunting community for his extraordinary marine reptile discoveries. His finds include a beautifully preserved ichthyosaur skull\, a rare plesiosaur flipper\, and the lower jaw of a 16-foot-long pliosaurus — the first of its kind found in Wales — which he generously donated to National Museum Cardiff. \n***\nWednesday 1 April | 6.30 pm\nGriffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, CF64 1JB*\nTickets: £18.00 including a SIGNED copy of In Search of Sea Dragons : A Fossil Hunter’s Odyssey (RRP £12.99)** / £8.00 Event Only*** / £5.00 Student or Child Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket \n*IMPORTANT: Please be aware that the toilet at Griffin Books can only be accessed via three steps and so is not accessible for wheelchair users or people with mobility issues. Please contact us on info@griffinbooks.co.uk if this would prohibit you from attending. \n**Any book not collected at the event will be held in Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.\n***There are a limited number of Event Only\, Inclusive and Student tickets available.
URL:https://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/event/matthew-myerscough-in-search-of-sea-dragons/
LOCATION:Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth
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SUMMARY:Lea Ypi: Indignity (GRIFFIN BOOKS AFTER HOURS)
DESCRIPTION:Join Lea Ypi – political theorist\, memoirist and one of Europe’s most compelling contemporary thinkers – as she discusses her powerful new book\, Indignity. \nA sweeping story that spans the twilight of the Ottoman Empire to the rise of communism in the Balkans\, Indignity has been longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction and named a Book of the Year by the Financial Times\, Sunday Times\, Prospect\, TLS\, Washington Post and NPR. An imaginative and searching exploration of historical injustice\, dignity and truth\, it is a family story at heart: when Ypi discovers a photograph of her grandmother\, Leman\, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941\, despite being told that all records of her early life were destroyed\, she begins a quest that unsettles everything she thought she knew.\n\nIndignity:\nWho was the real Leman Ypi? What compelled her to leave one world behind and marry into another at a time of war\, political upheaval and ideological extremity? And what does it mean to judge the choices of those who lived through such eras?\n\nMoving between archive and imagination\, court records and secret police files\, memory and speculation\, Indignity reconstructs a vanished world while asking urgent questions about truth\, survival and moral responsibility. By turns intimate and sweeping\, it examines how private lives are shaped and sometimes distorted by the forces of history. \nLea Ypi is the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the LSE and a Fellow of the British Academy. Born in Albania\, she studied in Rome and Oxford\, and is the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship. Her previous book\, Free\, won the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize\, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize\, the Costa Biography Award and the Gordon Burn Prize. \nThis event is part of our new Griffin Books After Hours series of talks\, interviews and discussions\, which will take place in our newly expanded shop. \n***\nFriday 13 March | 7.30 pm\nGriffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, CF64 1JB*\nTickets: £26.00 including a SIGNED hardback copy of Indignity (RRP £22.00)** / £8.00 Event Only*** / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket \n*IMPORTANT: Please be aware that the toilet at Griffin Books can only be accessed via three steps and so is not accessible for wheelchair users or people with mobility issues. Please contact us on info@griffinbooks.co.uk if this would prohibit you from attending. \n**Any book not collected at the event will be held in Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.\n***There are a limited number of Event Only\, Inclusive and Student tickets available.
URL:https://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/event/lea-ypi-indignity-griffin-books-after-hours/
LOCATION:Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Christmas Crime with Simon McCleave
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the festive season with a chilling new case for DI Ruth Hunter. Bestselling crime writer Simon McCleave will join us for our annual Christmas Crime event\, where he’ll discuss his latest heart-pounding thriller\, The Bala Lake Killings – a story of murder\, betrayal and a deadly pursuit across North Wales. Tickets include a glass of bubbly and a mince pie to get us all feeling suitably festive. \nTHE BALA LAKE KILLINGS:\nA local MP is brutally murdered by a far-right extremist gang in Snowdonia. When DI Ruth Hunter and DS Nick Evans arrest one of the killers\, Raymond Clarke\, he agrees to give evidence – on the condition that he and his family are placed in protective custody. Ruth believes they’ll be safe in the remote wilds near Bala Lake. \nBut when the location of the safe house is leaked and Clarke’s family is kidnapped\, Ruth and her team are thrust into a desperate chase across North Wales. As the gang closes in\, they must uncover the source of the betrayal before it’s too late. \nSimon McCleave is a multimillion-selling crime novelist and screenwriter. Originally from London\, he now lives in North Wales with his wife and two children. Before turning to novels\, Simon worked in London and LA on hit films and series including The Full Monty\, Silent Witness\, The Bill and Murder in Suburbia. His hugely popular DI Ruth Hunter series has sold millions worldwide and is set to become a major television drama\, with filming of Snowdonia beginning in autumn 2025. His new Marshal of Snowdonia series\, launched earlier this year\, has already become a bestseller. \n***\nWednesday 10 December | 7.30 pm\nGriffin Books\, 9-9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, CF64 1JB*\nTickets: £12.00 Event Only (to include a glass of bubbly on arrival and a mince pie) / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket \n*IMPORTANT: Please be aware that the toilet at Griffin Books can only be accessed via three steps and so is not accessible for wheelchair users or people with mobility issues. Please contact us on info@griffinbooks.co.uk if this would prohibit you from attending. \nBOOK NOW: GriffinBooksEvents.co.uk
URL:https://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/event/christmas-crime-with-simon-mccleave/
LOCATION:Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth
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SUMMARY:Menna Elfyn: Parch
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss this special evening with the brilliant Menna Elfyn – one of Wales’s foremost poets – to celebrate the publication of Parch\, her powerful and deeply moving new collection exploring respect\, compassion\, and the triumph of kindness in a fractured world. \nParch is a landmark publication for Menna and the first to include poems written directly in English\, as well as in her own translation. \nParch:\nIn Welsh\, parch (with a guttural ‘ch’) simply means respect. This stunning collection of poems gives voice to those whose liberty or dignity has been undermined\, calling for religious\, linguistic and cultural tolerance while confronting the effects of (in)humanity on our environment\, our histories\, and our lives.\n\nAmong these are powerful poems responding to sexual harassment\, exploitation and violence against women\, and to the plight of people caught up in armed conflicts past and present. Mercy is a recurring theme\, with poems exploring the tension between justice and forgiveness.\nMenna Elfyn shares Nobel laureate Herta Müller’s belief that ‘holding one’s own language up to the eyes of another leads to a solid relationship\, a relaxed kind of love’. This distils the essence of ‘Parch‘: respect as refuge\, and compassion as a force for transformation.\n\nMenna Elfyn is a major figure in contemporary Welsh poetry – she is the best-known\, most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets. Her work has been translated into more than eighteen languages\, and her voice is by turns challenging and compassionate\, unafraid of joy and full of the energies of community. She has published five previous dual-language books of poetry with Bloodaxe\, including the Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Murmur. Parch is her sixth poetry collection from Bloodaxe\, and her first to include poems written directly in English as well as in her own translation. \n***\nThursday 20 November\n7.30 pm (doors open 7.00 pm)\nGriffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth \nTickets: £18.00 including a SIGNED copy of Parch (Hardback RRP: £12.99)* / £10.00 Event Only / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket \n*Any book not collected at the event will be held in Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.
URL:https://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/event/menna-elfyn-parch/
LOCATION:Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:Gosia Buzzanca: There She Goes\, My Beautiful World
DESCRIPTION:Spend an evening exploring the meaning of ‘home’ with local author Gosia Buzzanca. Gosia will be in conversation with fellow author and communications professional Jade E. Bradford\, about her stunning new memoir\, There She Goes\, My Beautiful World. \n***\nWhat does ‘home’ mean? Is it where you come from\, or something you must build for yourself\, brick by brick\, from the ruins and treasures of everything that came before? \nIn this compelling memoir\, Gosia Buzzanca tells the story of leaving Poland at nineteen in search of a bigger life\, hoping to leave the traumas of her teenage years behind. After studying in England\, she finds a rich new tapestry of experience awaiting her in Wales – love\, literature\, motherhood\, and the challenge of making peace with the past so that this new life by the sea can finally feel like home. \nWritten with the fearless honesty of a poet\, this is a story for anyone who has ever felt lost or incomplete\, and who yearns to find the place where they truly belong.\n\nGosia Buzzanca was born in Poznań\, Poland and moved to the UK in 2008. She earned a Creative Writing MA with distinction and was the recipient of the W&A Working-Class Writers’ Prize (2022) before being selected for the Hay Festival Writers at Work programme in 2025. Her writing has been praised as “warm and vibrant”\, “poetic and electrifying”\, and “fearlessly tender”. She lives in Barry\, South Wales\, where she is working on her first novel. \nJade E. Bradford is an author and communications and engagement professional based in South Wales. Her short fiction\, often concerned with place and belonging\, has been published in Wasafiri\, Breadfruit Magazine\, and Rowayat. Her work has been longlisted for the 2025 4th Estate and Guardian 4thWrite Prize\, won the 2024 Breadfruit Magazine Prize\, and was highly commended in the 2023 Faber FAB Prize for Children’s Literature. She has been selected for the Literature Wales Representing Wales cohort (2023/24)\, Black British Book Festival Writers on the Rise (2024)\, and Hay Festival Writers at Work (2025). \n***\nThursday 6 November | 7.30 pm\nGriffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, CF64 1JB*\nTickets: £20.00 including a SIGNED hardback copy of There She Goes\, My Beautiful World (RRP £16.99)* / £8.00 Event Only / £5.00 Student Ticket / £5.00 Inclusive Ticket \n*IMPORTANT: Please be aware that the toilet at Griffin Books can only be accessed via three steps and so is not accessible for wheelchair users or people with mobility issues. Please contact us on info@griffinbooks.co.uk if this would prohibit you from attending. \n*Any book not collected at the event will be held in Griffin Books for three months after the date of the event.
URL:https://www.penarthtowncouncil.gov.uk/event/gosia-buzzanca-there-she-goes-my-beautiful-world/
LOCATION:Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth\, Griffin Books\, 9A Windsor Road\, Penarth
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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