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Books at the Dragon's Garden

Welcome/Croeso to our shop, we're open 11-5 on Tuesday to  Saturday.

We're based in Llandovery, the drovers town in the heart of the Tywi valley.

We're an ecletic little bookshop, we stock the very best of new and classic fiction in both English & Welsh,  a wide range of books about nature, the environment, art, politics, womens writing, food, gardening, history, travel, music and much, much more.

We have an inspiring children's section full of new books and old favourites, and also a lovely selection of Fair Trade gifts, gorgeous cards and wrapping paper

We also sell Niwaki Japanese gardening tools and Franchi seeds.

We're book addicts and we'll talk with you at length, but if you just want to  browse we'll leave you alone.

 

 

Mandy & Rhian 

 

 Visit our website at www.dragons-garden.com

 

 

 

 

There are Rivers in the Sky
There are Rivers in the Sky
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Otherlands: A World in the Making
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World
Sweet Thames
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
London Under
The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There
Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them
Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter
Hedgelands: A wild wander around Britain’s greatest habitat
Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness
Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging
The Garden Against Time: In Search Of A Common Paradise
Late Light: WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside
Be a Birder: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2024
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
Where Are the Fellows Who Cut the Hay?: How Traditions From the Past Can Shape Our Future
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World
Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar – BES MARSH ECOLOGY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT P
Move Like Water: A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures
It's Not Just You
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back
Foxlight: Winner of the Wainwright Children's Prize 2024
The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions
Global: a graphic novel adventure about hope in the face of climate change
Skrimsli
The Golden Hare
Finding Bear
Fly: Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Children's Nature and Conservation Writing 2024: A Child's Guide to Birds and Wher
Geomancer: In the Shadow of the Wolf Queen: An epic fantasy adventure from a bestselling author
The Panda's Child
Quiet
Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back - an Illustrated Guide
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life
Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary
The Britannias: An Island Quest
Some People Need Killing: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
Intervals
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI — Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
A Flat Place
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us
Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business
Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma
The Young Man – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality
Stay True
The Race To Be Myself
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me
Sonic Life: The new memoir from the Sonic Youth founding member
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
The Woman in Me
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir
An Atlas of Endangered Species
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
How to Read a Tree: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Lessons in Chemistry
The Book of Do: A Manual for Living
Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful
The Romantic
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
Small Things Like These: An Oprah Book Club Pick
London Tube Stations 1924-1961
Trespasses: The most beautiful, devastating love story you’ll read this year
Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Illywhacker
Utz: As Seen on BBC Between the Covers
Billy Liar
Vernon God Little
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Sweet Thursday
Our Spoons Came From Woolworths: A Virago Modern Classic
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Cloudstreet
Franny and Zooey
Diary of a Provincial Lady
At Freddie’s
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Shipping News
Wuthering Heights
The Grapes of Wrath
Vanity Fair
The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg
Germinal
Persuasion
Black Beauty
The Lord of the Rings
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Cannery Row
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
The Handmaid's Tale
The Rhythm of the Rain
Dragonology: New 20th Anniversary Edition
We Were Wolves
The Wild Folk
The Last Tree
The Wolf's Secret
The Book of Mythical Beasts and Magical Creatures: Meet your favourite monsters, fairies, heroes, and tricksters from all around
The Cat Man of Aleppo: Winner of the Caldecott Honor Award
The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime
Windrush Child
The Way Past Winter (paperback)
The Whitby Witches
The Dragon Ark: Join the quest to save the rarest dragon on Earth
Finn Family Moomintroll
Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know & What We Don't
Finn Family Moomintroll
Letters from Tove
A Winter Book: Selected Stories
The Summer Book: A Novel
Moominvalley in November
Tove Jansson: Work and Love
Moominland Midwinter: Special Collector’s Edition
Moominsummer Madness
Comet in Moominland
Moomin Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Moomin Book Three: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Moomin Book Four: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Moomin Book Five
Art in Nature: and other stories
Tales From Moominvalley
The Lost Words: Rediscover our natural world with this spellbinding book
The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of the natural world
Song of the Golden Hare
The Lost Words: Spell Songs
Fungarium
The Unwinding: and other dreamings
The Wild Swans
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Quiet Music of Gently Falling Snow, The
The White Fox
Tell Me a Dragon
Botanicum
The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest
The Wild Places
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
Silent Spring
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate
Diary of a Young Naturalist: WINNER OF THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING
Woodston: The Biography of An English Farm – The Sunday Times Bestseller
The Wild Life of the Fox
Wanderland: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. the Ones Who Run Our World.
The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
Back to Nature: How to Love Life – and Save It
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness
Birdsong in a Time of Silence
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to British Birds
The Tree Forager: 40 Extraordinary Trees & What to Do with Them
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
A Buzz in the Meadow
The Book of the Raven: Corvids in Art and Legend
The Long, Long Life of Trees
Meetings With Remarkable Trees
The British Oak
Bee Quest
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Corvus: A Life With Birds
The Swallow: A Biography (Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Bookshop Literary Award)
A Kestrel for a Knave
A Gathering Light
I Capture the Castle: A special edition of the coming-of-age classic
On the Road
The Red Pony
Lord of the Flies
The Girls Of Slender Means
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Catcher in the Rye
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
My Brilliant Friend: The International No. 1 Bestseller
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Cold Comfort Farm
Andrew Wyeth: A Spoken Self-Portrait
Portraits
Brenda Chamberlain Artist and Writer
Edward Hopper: Portraits of America
Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.
Grayson Perry
Angie Lewin: Plants and Places
A History of Art in 21 Cats: From the Old Masters to the Modernists, the Moggy as Muse: an illustrated guide
Ravilious
The Bigger Picture: Women Who Changed the Art World
Picasso's Animals
Cabinets of Curiosities
Duveen
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love
Thrifty Kitchen: Over 120 Delicious, Money-saving Recipes and Home Hacks
Death and the Penguin: A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick
Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: The heartbreaking tale that everyone's talking about
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground
Exit West: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918–1930
Refugee Tales: Volume IV
Saving the Butterfly: A story about refugees
A Story Like the Wind
Refugee Boy
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
The Most Important Comic Book on Earth: Stories to Save the World
The Rhythm of the Rain
The Great Melt: Accounts from the Frontline of Climate Change
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
The Ministry for the Future
#futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country
Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
Great Adaptations: In the shadow of a climate crisis
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Ottolenghi SIMPLE
Ottolenghi FLAVOUR
Jerusalem
Ottolenghi: The Cookbook
Plenty
Horses of Iceland
The Long Riders Anthology, Volume 1
The Medieval Horse and its Equipment, c.1150-1450
The Conquistador's Horse
Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship
Horse of Fire: and other stories from around the world
The Lost War Horses of Cairo: The Passion of Dorothy Brooke
Horses in Russian Art
The Red Pony
A Connemara Journey
The Horse Boy: A Father's Miraculous Journey to Heal His Son
Equus
The Book of the Horse: Horses in Art
The Horse in the Ancient World
Tennessee's Arabian Horse Racing Heritage
This Land: The Struggle for the Left
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
People Like Us: What it Takes to Make it in Modern Britain
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
#futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country
Women & Power: A Manifesto
The Ministry for the Future
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Persia
Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
Forgotten Kingdom: Nine Years in Yunnan
Far Away & Long Ago
Wheels within Wheels: The Makings of a Traveller
Affair of the Heart, An
Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico
The Light Garden of the Angel King
A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels Among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalucia
A Pilgrimage to Nejd: The Cradle of the Arab Race : A Visit to the Court of the Arab Emir, and "Our Persian Campaign"
The Seventh Son
The Square of Sevens
Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Falling Animals: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Devil's Breath: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou: The dark and addictive 2023 BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick that's inspired by true-c
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The Light of Day
My Sister, the Serial Killer: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Any Human Heart: A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM
Sorrow and Bliss: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
The Lamplighters
The Giant Dark: an award-winning novel about love and fame
A Murder at Rosings
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
The Queen of the Cicadas
At Night All Blood is Black: WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021
The Memory Police
Circe: The stunning new anniversary edition from the author of international bestseller The Song of Achilles
The Left Hand of Darkness
Kindred: The ground-breaking masterpiece from the New York Times bestseller
Under The Skin
Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Station Eleven
Fahrenheit 451
The Rebecca Rioter
Salt
Ugly, Lovely: Dylan Thomas's Swansea and Carmarthenshire of the 1950s in Pictures
The Mabinogion
A History of Wales
Women's Suffrage in Wales
Wales in 100 Objects
Hello Friend We Missed You
Organic Gardening: The natural no-dig way
How to Create a New Vegetable Garden: Producing a beautiful and fruitful garden from scratch
Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month
Gardening for Bumblebees: A Practical Guide to Creating a Paradise for Pollinators
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition
The Ten-Minute Gardener: A month-by-month guide to growing your own
Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems
Poor
The Sun and Her Flowers
The Green Hollow
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
Blue Horses
Oi! Get Off Our Train
The Lorax
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
The Giving Tree
Zagazoo: Part of the BBC’s Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures
Goodnight Moon
Where the Wild Things are
Madeline
The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was none of his business
Where the Wild Cooks Go: Recipes, Music, Poetry, Cocktails
Zaika: Vegan recipes from India
Vegan Recipes from the Middle East
Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day
Tin Can Cook: 75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes
The Summer Book: A Novel
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
Sorrow and Bliss: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
How to Kidnap the Rich: 'A monstrously funny and unpredictable wild ride' Kevin Kwan
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
That Old Country Music
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Legend Classics)
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
What Artists Wear
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
High Fidelity
A Field Guide To Getting Lost
In the Woods: A stunningly accomplished psychological mystery which will take you on a thrilling journey through a tangled web o
The Lamplighters
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley: The spellbinding BBC Between the Covers book club pick
Sometimes People Die
The Night Ship
Take My Hand: The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
The Dance Tree: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Snap: The astonishing Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics
Moon Tiger
The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin
Where the Wildflowers Grow: Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize
Cacophony of Bone
Sea Bean
The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure: 'A rare and magical book.' Bill Bryson
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Landlines
Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save our Oceans
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers
Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time
Rooted: How regenerative farming can change the world
Birdgirl: ‘Lyrical, poignant and insightful.’ Margaret Atwood
Beautiful World, Where Are You: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People
The Books of Jacob
Crossroads
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Palmares: A 2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
The Women of Troy
Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Painting Time
A Shock
The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award
China Room: The heartstopping and beautiful novel, longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Second Place: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
The Manningtree Witches