Palas Print

Palas Print is the bookshop of Welsh Caernarfon — a genuinely bilingual independent within the medieval town walls, strong in Welsh-language writing as well as English, run by Eirian James with the conviction of someone who believes a town like this should have a proper bookshop and has made sure it does. Caernarfon is one of the strongholds of the Welsh language, a place where you hear it in every shop, and Palas Print reflects that: new fiction and non-fiction in both languages, Welsh-interest and local titles, poetry, children's books, and an events programme that brings writers to the town. James ran a Bangor branch for years before concentrating on Caernarfon. It is the kind of shop that does cultural work as much as retail — keeping a literature alive in the language it is written in, on a street inside a castle town. Come for the Welsh writing you will not find elsewhere; stay for the recommendations.