A reminder from last month's winners post:- "As you may have noted from an earlier announcement we have transitioned to the weekly leaderboard for our monthly Top Blogger adjudication. Henceforth the winner will be decided on the basis of their ranking and points in the final weekly leaderboard of the month. Posts which were published in preceding months will be discounted. The reasons for this are twofold. Firstly the weekly leaderboards are much more responsive and competitive and secondly the monthly board has some strange quirks. In particular it insists on ranking a few ancient posts that have received no 'Likes' comments or recent traffic."

So without further ado here are this months winners:-

1. Lyn Mackay 58 points ( 38 ranking points plus 10 for quantity and 10 for 'traffic', Lyn has blogged consistently on the site this month and our log files indicate that her posts have been well received. View Lyn's blog on AC here )

2. Mona Everett 19 points ( 19 ranking points. View Mona's blog on AC here )

3. Jeff Phillips 16 points ( 16 ranking points. View Jeff's blog on AC here )

Fabulous digital prizes will be awarded to our three winners today and Lyn will receive a copy of Owen Sheers, 'White Ravens'. We will be announcing next months Top Blogger prize shortly. To view the current weekly leaderboard and peruse the rules of the competition go to this page

If you would like to congratulate our winners please feel free to do so in comments on this page

Gwales Review :- " Aled Lewis Evans writes in both Welsh and English, and the pieces in this collection have all been adapted from the original Welsh, either by Martin Davis or by the author.

The collection opens with a series of stories about sad and sorry characters bored, ignored wife and mother of four, Sue, whose spirits and hair colour are temporarily lightened in response to the attentions of the local Casanova; homeless Harry, interminably snapping away with a camera that contains no film (we are pre-digital here); Gareth, the lonely radio presenter, wondering who will listen to him on Christmas day; and middle-aged Ruth throwing an attention-seeking tantrum that backfires on her. Is there anyone out there? Is anyone listening? Does anyone care? These are the questions that resound throughout, as Evanss characters convince themselves that they have either failed or been failed, and fall into the inevitable trap of anger and self-pity " read more