Manon Steffan Ros is a Welsh novelist, playwright, games author, scriptwriter and musician (being one half of the acoustic duo 'Blodau Gwylltion'). She is the author of over twenty children's books. Llyfr Glas Nebo, won the 2018 Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod and the 2019 Welsh Book of the Year Award. It is her first novel to be translated into English (by the author) Manon has also written three novels for adults, all in Welsh. Her award-winning novel Blasu has been translated (by the author) into English under the title of The Seasoning. In May 2021 she was described as "arguably the most successful novelist writing in Welsh at the moment". (Wales Arts Review)Read our review of The Blue Book of Nebo on the Just Imagine website. Purchase  The Blue Book of Nebo from our bookselling partner Best Books for Schools.Publisher's BlurbDylan was six when The End came back in 2018, when the electricity switched off, and the world he knew disappeared. Now he's 14 and he and his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in north-west Wales, where mother and son confide their experiences and memories in a found notebook - the Blue Book.Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. and by purchasing books from our online bookshop, Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates: follow us on X @imaginecentre Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/justimaginecentre.bsky.social Instagram https://www.instagram.com/justimagine_books/Full details about the range of services we provide can be found on our website www.justimagine.co.uk

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