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Join us for the last week of our unmissable creative writing retreat with more than ten sessions led by award-winning authors<br><strong>Online workshop</strong><br><strong>Date: </strong>Monday 7 August – Sunday 13 August 2023<br>Catch up recording available

On the Recommended Reads shelf at Ruabon Library this week are: Queenspotting by Hilary Kearney - the author dares readers to find the queen bee in the book, with puzzles and close up photos of the queen hidden among her subjects. For younger readers there is The Accidental Rockstar by Tom McLaughlin, an entertaining and funny story from the Accidental Series; and for historical mystery fans The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley is a fast paced, mysterious adventure story full of magic and i...

Cover art from The Lights of Prague (courtesy Titan Books) There are few things more interesting to me than the many stories we tell ourselves—our history, our propaganda, and our folklore. The historical fantasy genre, the intersection of the above layers, is rich with explorations of those stories. The Lights of Prague, my debut novel, is set in an 1868 Prague where the quiet cobblestone streets are hiding dark, hungry creatures. It was an exciting challenge to weave my research of the tim...