Books Council of Wales

The Books Council of Wales (Welsh: Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru; previously known as the Welsh Books Council) is a literature advocacy organisation in Wales.

The council's aims are to promote the interests of Welsh language books and English language books of interest to Wales, to promote the publishing industry, and to assist and support authors by offering a number of services and distributing grants.

[1] The council's headquarters are in the former St Mary's College building in Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth; and it also has a distribution centre on the outskirts of the town at Glanyrafon Enterprise Park.

The distribution centre has an annual turnover of around £3 million (net).

[citation needed] Alun Creunant Davies held the position of director from 1965 to 1987.