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In the run up to the Wales Book of the Year winning announcement, Llenyddiaeth Cymru / Literature Wales are recording readings from the shortlisted authors.

Here's Sarah Broughton reading from Brando's Bride, whch has been shortlisted for the creative non-fiction category!

Winners will be announced on 31 July, so keep your fingers crossed for her!

You can watch the reading here.

We're thrilled to announce that Sarah Broughton is on the shortlist for Literature Wales's prestigious Wales Book of the Year Award with Brando's Bride, her fascinating and critically acclaimed true story of Anna Kashfi's marriage to Marlon Brando.

This week, for her WRITERS CHAT series, Sarah Gilligan talks to author Sarah Broughton about her recent release Brando's Bride. You say several times in the book that Anna Kashfi was “both of her time and one of a kind” and that she was “a part of history and yet also extinguished from it.” Was part of your aim in writing this book to bring her – and her story – back into the folds of history and also popular culture? Did you see her as one of the forgotten women of history? This is an area I’ve always been...

Sarah Broughton's blog tour for Brando's Bride is going down a storm so far - the response from reviewers and bloggers is overwhelmingly positive. It kicked off on October 11th (Brando and Kashfi's wedding day) with a review from Books on the 7:47 that got straight to the heart of Sarah's intentions with this book: 'Sarah achieved what she set out to do, I won’t forget about Anna now, or ever simply think of her as Marlon’s first wife.'