FIVE friends, FIVE stories, FIVE authors, FIVE young co-authors, ONE ambitious project.
Join us for our book club to discuss The Five, edited by Elgan Rhys and translated by Mared Roberts.
Our Book Club is a virtual event hosted via Zoom. Our Book Club meetings are an informal space to chat with other readers and publishing hopefuls. There are no expectations for you to contribute to the discussion or to have your camera on – we want everyone to join in a way that is comfortable for them! Whether you’ve finished the book, are part-way through or haven’t even opened the cover, we would love to see you there.
The Five
The Five follows a year in the interconnected lives of five very different teenagers who forge a singular bond at their secondary school in north-west Wales.
This boldly original and tender-hearted YA novel edited by Elgan Rhys is adapted by Mared Roberts from the multi-award-winning Welsh-language series Y Pump, which was co-created in an innovative authorship process which paired established authors with emerging young writers with lived experience relevant to the characters within the novel.
‘‘The Five depicts a diverse, modern Wales and has been written through a pioneering, collaborative approach……It’s a multi-perspective story written by young authors immersed in both the genre and contemporary reality of the coming-of-age story.’ Darren Chetty, Books for Keeps
Written by Elgan Rhys with Tomos Jones, Mared Roberts with Ceri-Anne Gatehouse, Marged Elen Wiliam with Mahum Umer, Iestyn Tyne with Leo Drayton, Megan Angharad Hunter with Maisie Awen.
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