
Machynlleth, an ancient market town in Mid-Wales, supports 4 bookshops: Dyfi Valley Bookshop (used and antiquarian books), Coch-y-Bonddu Books (angling, game shooting, sporting dogs and falconry), the newly opened Literary Cat Books, and Penârallt Gallery Bookshop â opened by Diane Bailey and Geoff Young ten years ago, not âso that we can make a lot of moneyâ but âbecause books are important.â These independent booksellers specialize in âbooks that we are happy to have on the shelves, books that mean something to usâ especially photography, politics, Welsh writers (in Welsh or English) and interesting fiction. The shop is just a few doors from the MOMA Machynlleth art gallery with which they have close links, and they write a regular photography feature for the Oâr Pedwar Gwynt literary newspaper. I spoke with them shortly after they had re-opened for browsing.
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