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For general shop info, opening times etc. see the footer of our website, or visit our Contact page (you'll find a simple contact form there too if you still can't find the info you're after). 

If you're interested in our free book ordering service, or information and booking for our events, please use the relevant button below the form.

Thank you for your interest. Geoff & Diane.

Call 01654 700559

3 Heol Pen'Rallt
Machynlleth, SY20 8AG

(01654) 700559

We're an independent gallery bookshop based in Machynlleth, mid Wales. It's our blend of bookshop, selling a carefully selected collection of reads and pick-up-and-flick-through books – and gallery space to inspire you while you're browsing. We host events too, book readings, author talks, photography and art openings. 

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dates for your diary / dyddiadau ar gyfer eich dyddiadur

Easter at your Town Library - Emma Rea introduces 'Entangled'
Apr
11
11:00 AM11:00

Easter at your Town Library - Emma Rea introduces 'Entangled'

We’ve invited one of our favourite children’s authors and yours, to visit Machynlleth Town Library for Easter.

Emma’s new book ‘Entangled’ is funny, exciting, full of action and adventure and set in Venice!

If you enjoyed Emma’s, ‘Top Dog’ and ‘My Name Is River’, you need to come and join us! Bring your friends!

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Under a Turbulent Sky - Fay Godwin - Exhibition Opening
Apr
25
11:30 AM11:30

Under a Turbulent Sky - Fay Godwin - Exhibition Opening

‘Under a Turbulent Sky’ - 27 new prints of the landscape work of Fay Godwin will be opened on 25 April 2026 by Peter Cattrell. The work will be spread across our two exhibiting spaces, the bookshop and Ffotogaleri y gofeb. We hope that you will join us, if not on that day some time over the summer and autumn of 2026.


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The Green Month
May
14
6:00 PM18:00

The Green Month

Join us for this sociable book event with poet Matthew Francis, who’ll read from his newest volume of poetry, ‘The Green Month’, a collection of short English-language poems offering a contemporary reimagining of the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym — the 14th-century Ceredigion-born bard widely regarded as Wales’s greatest poet.

at Pen'rallt Gallery Bookshop, Machynlleth, on Thursday 14th May.
Free refreshments from 6pm, Event: 6.30pm - 7.30pm

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Cynefin: Wisdom from a Thousand Years of Welsh Nature Poetry with author Carwyn Graves
May
20
6:30 PM18:30

Cynefin: Wisdom from a Thousand Years of Welsh Nature Poetry with author Carwyn Graves

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Join Carwyn Graves, at this Machynlleth launch of his much anticipated new book, ‘Cynefin: Wisdom from a Thousand Years of Welsh Nature Poetry’, as he explores how the Welsh poetic tradition and works of Taliesin, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Gwerful Mechain, John Dyer, TH Parry Williams, Dic Jones, Manon Awst, RS Thomas, and more, offer a different view of nature and connecting to our place in the world, and demonstrate its power to help us address the challenges we face.  

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workshops, author reading and book signing with Dreena Collins
May
23
10:30 AM10:30

workshops, author reading and book signing with Dreena Collins

Dreena Collins has devised two writing workshops appealing to a range of experiences.

A morning workshop - Poetry Redacted - Uncovering new themes and voices amongst familiar words 

An afternoon workshop - 'The Testimony She Never Gave – a workshop for writers'

And, at the day’s satisfying close, Dreena will treat us to a reading from her new novel, Perotine, published by Blue Ormer, published on 21 April 2026.

Make a day of it, or come along to one session.

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ALED RHYS HUGHES IN CONVERSATION / mewn sgwrs
Mar
7
11:00 AM11:00

ALED RHYS HUGHES IN CONVERSATION / mewn sgwrs

Reframing the landscape / Ail-fframio’r tirlun

The Dolgarrog tragedy started here in Cwm Eigiau and it is here that Aled Rhys Hughes has made a series of photographs over a period of thirty years.

Our conversation with Aled will look at the way he has been able to apply his technical mastery of large format photography, a technology going back almost 200 years, (here combined with drone photography) to issues relevant to contemporary Wales.

Aled Rhys Hughes’s exhibition, ‘Cwm Eigiau - Y Wal Heb Sylfaen / The Wall Without Foundation’ (2025), marks a century since the Dolgarrog dam disaster.

This event is free

Refreshments and a final opportunity to view the exhibition from 11.00

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