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- Good Friday 29 March: All libraries will be closed (with the exception of Storyhouse which will be open as usual).
- Saturday 30 March: All libraries will be open as per standard opening hours which can be found here.
- Easter Sunday 31 March: All libraries will be closed (with the exception of Storyhouse which will be open as usual).
- Easter Monday 1 April: All libraries will be closed.
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All items currently on loan will be automatically renewed and will not be due for return on any closed days. You can check your library account online here.
We wish all our library visitors a very happy Spring bank holiday.
All items currently on loan will be automatically renewed and will not be due for return on any closed days. You can check your library account online here.
We wish all our library visitors a very happy Spring bank holiday.
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The Spring holidays are here again and there’s so much to do for free at your library.
Join us for treasure hunting, animal crafts, Lego clubs, games and more.
For a full list of activities head to our Events page and scroll down to your library.
We’re also offering some Maths Wizard workshops at Upton and Great Boughton libraries with Explore Learning Chester. Become a multiplication wizard and create the perfect magical potions. To book a space visit Cheshire West and Chester Council Libraries event tickets from TicketSource.
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There will be small increases to library fees and charges from April 1 2024, in line with inflation.
Charges will be updated on our website after 1 April: Borrowing, charges and fines | Cheshire West and Chester Council. Don’t forget there are still no reservation charges for children and no overdue charges for under 13s.
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We are busy planning events for the Great Big Green Week (8 to 16 June).
We’re looking for environmentally minded non-profit groups and those that are involved with repairing/patching and upcycling to do demonstrations, talks or to staff stalls in our libraries.
If you can help, please email libraries@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
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We’re excited to be working with Motherwell and Brio Leisure to help tackle period poverty.
To start our scheme we’re looking for donations. Period Dignity boxes will soon be available in selected libraries for anyone to donate period products, as well as other items like hairbrushes, bobbles and tissues. The donation boxes will be at the following locations:
- Chester Library at Storyhouse
- Ellesmere Port Library
- Neston Library
- Northwich Library
- Winsford Library
Your donations will then form care packages which will be offered in all libraries for anyone in need, so look out for more information coming soon.
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Creative Writing for Wellbeing: a new course with Caroline Corcoran
 Come and join Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Corcoran as she guides you through a free five-week creative writing course designed to boost your wellbeing.
Caroline will give you help, advice and thoughtful feedback on your writing, as well as tasks to think about and work on at home between sessions. By the extended final session in week five, you’ll be ready to use everything you have learnt to produce a final piece of writing. You will also have the tools to take you forward to work on your own creative writing projects.
The free course will start Wednesday 17 April, 10.30am at Neston Library.
Book your place or find out more by emailing libraryevents@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
Murder Mystery: The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves
Our famous Murder Mystery comes to Ellesmere Port Library! Gather your team of detectives, then join a suspicious cast of characters, listen to their witness statements, and use your little grey cells to figure out whodunnit.
Thursday 18 April, 7pm-9pm at Ellesmere Port Library. Get your tickets here.
Gina Kirkham and the Constable Mavis Upton Adventures
Local author and retired police officer Gina Kirkham joins us at Hope Farm Library to discuss her life, work and books to celebrate World Book Night. Expect fun-filled and fearless escapades.
Tuesday 23 April, 7.30pm at Hope Farm Library. Get your tickets here.
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Best of the books: our favourite new titles this month |
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The Library Thief
Kuchenga Shenje
Manchester, 1896. After bringing scandal on her family, bookbinder’s daughter Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Lord Francis Belfield's library is old and full of secrets - but none so intriguing as the whispers about his late wife. Then one night, the library is broken into. Strangely, all the priceless tomes remain untouched. Florence is puzzled, until she discovers a half-burned book in the fireplace. She realises with horror that someone has found and set fire to the secret diary of Lord Belfield's wife - which may hold the clue to her fate.
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The Intruders
Louise Jensen
It should be the perfect opportunity: a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost 30 years ago. But they've got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn. Objects disappear and turn up in odd places, the clock always stops at the same time, and the house is oppressive yet strangely familiar. Could it just be bad memories, or are the house's secrets a little closer to home?
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Funny Story
Emily Henry
Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it - right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she's either FBI or in witness protection.
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The In Crowd
Charlotte Vassell
On the last Saturday in August, politicos and socialites trade tidbits of gossip and sips of Pimm's under the tasteful bunting of a Richmond garden party. They'd never guess that the police are just a stone's throw away, pulling a body out of the river Thames. The drowning appears to be a tragic accident - until Detective Caius Beauchamp gets an unexpected tip. The victim, it seems, had enemies in high places. Did being on the wrong side of them get her killed?
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New Books Coming Soon
Take a scroll through our upcoming releases and bestsellers - all available to order.
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