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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. 

AUTHOR & ACTIVIST, JAY GRIFFITHS - 'HOW ANIMALS HEAL US'

 

5 JUNE 2025, 7.30PM

DOORS OPEN 7.00
BAR AND REFRESHMENTS

VENUE: Y TABERNACL, MOMA, MACHYNLLETH

It has been a real pleasure to arrange the major Welsh launch of
‘How Animals Heal Us’
on its publication date
in partnership with publishers, Hamish Hamilton and the Friends of Y Tabernacl, MoMA, Machynlleth

And following Jay Griffiths’s appearance on
23 May
at this year’s Hay Festival

Author and activist, Jay Griffiths

Jay will be in conversation with writer, award winning author and Patron of Friends of Y Tabernacl, MoMA,
Mike Parker, to share stories from her new book, in which she draws on Indigenous knowledge, scientific discoveries and history to explore how animals can have a role in every level of healing, from the individual to the collective.

 
 

In this original, revelatory and exuberant book, Jay Griffiths explores how animals can have a role in every level of healing, from the individual to the collective, guiding us in how we might create societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder. Wolves may be teachers of ethics; monkeys and dogs can object to unfairness and bees take collective decisions. Animals are irresistible medicine for a healthy culture, animating the arts with spectacular vitality and verve, as poetry knows.


 

Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border, On the Red Hill, Map Addict

 
Readers will need no persuading as to the literary talent of Jay Griffiths. Over her dazzling and immensely varied writing career, she has written books of great beauty, but enormous importance too. ‘How Animals Heal Us’ is vintage Jay, a breathtaking tour of world cultures and history, a passionate love letter to nature and the animal kingdom, and an urgent rallying cry for a better planet.
She has a clear, eloquent and utterly unique voice, and it will be such a pleasure to hear it in Machynlleth.
— Author of best selling, 'On the Red Hill' and 'All the Wide Border', Mike Parker

Jay Griffiths is the author of many books, including, Wild: An Elemental Journey; Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape; Tristimania; Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time. She won the Discover award for the best first-time author in the USA; the inaugural Orion award and the Hay Festival International Fellowship.

Jay has broadcast and written widely, on subjects such as Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work has received widespread accolades, including from Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Don Paterson, John Berger, Philip Pullman, KT Tunstall and Nikolai Fraiture.

https://www.jaygriffiths.com/about

 

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