We are very excited to announce the Waterstones Welsh Book of the Year 2025!

A Room Above a Shop, Anthony Shapland's poetic debut, is an astonishing novel; a deeply moving story of two men's secret relationship in 1980s Wales.

It's a truly beautiful book.

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Llongyfarchiadau enfawr to all the Wales Book of the Year winners, and shortlistees, (and tbh to anyone who's published or written a book over the last year. That's an amazing achievement!)

🥳🎉🥂📚🖋️

Great ceremony - worth a watch for Rhian's speech alone 😁😂❤️

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