Libraries
Welcome to Neath Port Talbot Library & Information
Services
Libraries now have something for everyone, books, information,
music, films, and computers with free access to the Internet and
other online services
Neath Port Talbot Library and Information Services provides a
range of services to the local community through our network of
18 libraries and 2 mobile libraries. Our major libraries are at
Neath, Port
Talbot and Pontardawe.
Meet a
Bestseller this summer
at Neath Port Talbot Libraries
This Summer
Neath Port Talbot Libraries have lined up a fantastic programme of
author events for you. Starting on June 5th at
Port Talbot Library the literary
phenomenon that is Jasper
Fforde will be visiting us for a memorable afternoon where you
will discover all there is to know about Literary Detectives, the
Nursery Crime Squad and the mysterious kidnapping of Jane Eyre.
The following
week, we celebrate the best of crime writing with the brilliant
Andrew Taylor, bestselling
author of The American Boy, Fallen Angel and lots more will be at
Sandfields Library on June
10th.
This is followed
by a hilarious encounter with the Greek Gods as they settle down to
sharing a flat in London in the funny new book from debut author
Marie Phillips. Marie will
be at Taibach Library on June
17th.
Then it is off
to the Middle Ages with four of the best medieval mystery writers
in Britain today – Michael Jecks, Philip
Gooden, Susanna Grergory and
Bernard Knight are the Medieval Murderers and they will be
at Cwmafan Library on June
26th.
To finish the
season’s programme we have a visit from Ray French, bestselling author of
All This is Mine and Going Under. Ray will be at Baglan Library on July 1st.
Please contact the appropriate library for
all details.
And finally…look
out for the first ever Literature Festival Day at the
Margam Festival on Sunday July 13th where there
will be guest authors, including the brilliant Barbara
Erskine and RJ Ellory and the official
longlisting announcement of the prestigious Dylan Thomas
Prize.
National Year of Reading
This year World
Book Day had even greater significance with it marking the launch
of the National Year of Reading in Neath Port Talbot. The Year will
feature some of the most popular bestselling authors in the
country. Authors such as Catrin
Collier, Bernard
Knight, Lionel
Fanthorpe, Jasper
Fforde, Michael Jecks,
Mavis Nicholson and
Andrew Taylor will all be
visiting libraries in the coming months. Look out for a Meet the
Author event at your library.
At the Margam Festival on July 13th there will be a featured day
for readers which will include a major event around the Dylan
Thomas Prize and will include a range of well known authors.
There will be a libraries tent again this year at the
Pontardawe
Festival, August 15th – 17th and this will include some
fantastic storytelling, performance poetry and much, much more.
The National Year of Reading will be an amazing one in Neath
Port Talbot.