Hot Press scribe Jackie Hayden's latest book, A Map of Love: Around Wales With Dylan Thomas, has been selected by Welsh bookshops and the Welsh Books Council as their 'Book of the Month' for July.

As previously revealed on hopress.com, Hayden’s book deals with the places in Wales associated with the poet and referenced in his works, and is accompanied by a CD recording based on a script written by Hayden.

The CD script is read by Welsh arch-druid Jim Parc Nest, and was recorded in the room where Dylan was born in Swansea. A Map of Love is published jointly by Iconau Books and Fflach Records, and is the follow-up to Hayden’s number one bestseller of last year, My Boy, his biography of Phil Lynott based on interviews he recorded with the rock star’s mother Philomena.