Reading Wales Month, hosted by Booker Talk and Kathryn Eastman from Nut Press will be back for its ninth year in March, giving readers around the world a chance to celebrate literature from this Celtic nation.

To take part in Reading Wales Month all you need to do is read a book written by an author from Wales. It could be any genre — fiction, poetry, essays, travel diaries, drama. Any author with a connection to Wales will count. Then just post your review between March 1 and March 31. If you don’t have a blog, you could post your thoughts onto Goodreads or Instagram.

There will also be the option of joining a buddy read of two books, one fiction and one non fiction:

• Glass Houses by Francesca Reece was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year in 2025. It is her second published work.
• Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams a memoir about a search for identity, belonging and home. It relates her journey from the small town in north Wales where she was born to Guyana, Africa and then back to Wales.

If you’re looking for inspiration on what to read, take a look at

• the Reading Wales Library where you’ll find a list of what people have read in previous years,
• contributions to Reading Wales25 listed here and
• the shortlist for Wales Book of the Year 2025.

I’m planning to read more of Roald Dahal’s Completely Unexpected Tales. I read some of these for last year’s Short Story September 2025 hosted by Lisa at ANZ LitLovers LitBlog. I also have a few more books to choose from:

1. The Amorous Nightingale by Edward Marston
2. The Repentant Rake by Edward Marston
3. Winter of the World by Ken Follett – 929 pages
4. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett – 865 pages
5. World Without End by Ken Follett – 1248 pages
6. The Beautiful Dead by Belinda Bauer
7. The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan

Ken Follett’s books are too long for me to read for this March but I do intend to read them later.