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With summer now in full swing, join us for activities, events and challenges to keep you busy over the holidays. Get reading for an opportunity to get a certificate and medal (for kids) or the chance to win a £50 book voucher (for adults). Read on to find out more about summer at your local library...
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The biggest free library event of the year is now in full swing, with nearly 4,000 children already joining either the Summer Reading Challenge (4-12years) or the Mini Challenge (Under 4 years). Don’t let your child miss out on the collector’s pack, stickers, certificate and medal: you can join them now at www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/read or by popping into your local library. And it saves money for you too: going to the library is free, there’s no late book charges for the Under 13s and we are also offering discounted tickets to Sick To Death as well as free children’s entry to Hayrack Church Farm just for joining the Challenge. And as if that weren’t enough, there are loads of free events for the Under 13s going on in our libraries all over the school holidays.
The Challenge itself goes on all of August so, with plenty of time to join, make your child a Marvellous Maker today!
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Celebrate your love of books and reading this summer and join our reading challenge for adults and teens online and in libraries.
Entrants just need to read two books between 6 July and 8 September. Choose from a library book, eBook or eAudiobook, to be in with a chance to win £50 of book vouchers through our prize draw at www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/read or a pick up a flyer from your nearest library. There are two prize draws - one for young people aged between 13 and 17, and one for 18+. Winners will be chosen at random. Under 16s need parental permission to take part.
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And introducing this year's #BooketList...
And just for fun, from 1 August take part in our #BooketList. We have selected our 30 favourite must reads from the last 12 months including ‘The Silence Factory’ by Bridget Collins and ‘The Mystery Guest’ by Nita Prose. The list can be used for ideas for your reading over the summer – check out the full selection here and join in the conversation on Facebook, X and Instagram. How many have you read?
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Due to building works at Tarvin Community Centre, the library will be closed from 25 July to 29 August and is due to reopen on Tuesday 3 September. All Tarvin loans due for return within this period have been extended. Any holds already placed will be re-reserved to be collected from the mobile library.
In order to provide a library service during this time, the mobile library will visit the Tarvin Community Centre car park on the following Saturdays:
- Saturday 24 August, 10am-12pm
- Saturday 31 August, 10am-12pm
The mobile is unable to make a stop on Saturday 17 August due to a pre-planned maintenance visit.
You may also like to visit our other libraries during this time: Find a library | Cheshire West and Chester Council.
We apologise for this disruption and hope to see you at Tarvin Library in September.
Tarporley Library is now ropen as normal following electrical works at the school.
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We love BorrowBox – our free eBook and eAudiobook app and we hope you do too! This month we’re sharing a couple of frequently asked questions about the service to help you get the most out of your reading and listening.
Q. Why is there sometimes a waiting list for the book I want to borrow?
A. Most library eBooks and eAudiobooks work just like physical books – the library will purchase a number of copies and when a copy is checked out to a customer, the next customer will have to wait until it’s returned. If you can’t borrow that new release straight away, we recommend adding it to your Reading List to check out later without using up one of your loans.
Q. Why is my favourite author not available on BorrowBox?
A. While most publishers do support library lending of digital books, there are still a few that don’t. If a publisher does not support lending digital books, we are unable to buy them for the library. BorrowBox work with publishers to encourage access to their titles but unfortunately there will be some titles that we are unable to make available.
Stuck for somethjng to read? Our #ReadNow and #ListenNow titles are always available to download and can be found at the top of the app (along with some special Summer Reading Challenge titles – perfect for those long car journeys!).
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After his first sold out event at Helsby Library, multi-million-selling crime novelist Simon McCleave is touring our libraries throughout the summer and tickets are selling fast! Catch Simon on the dates below:
Great Boughton Library, Thursday 15 August 7pm
Sandiway Library, Thursday 29 August 7pm (sold out)
Neston Library, Thursday 5 September 7pm
Simon’s first book, 'The Snowdonia Killings', was released in January 2020 and soon became an Amazon Bestseller, reaching No 1 in the UK Chart and selling over 400,000 copies. His eighteen subsequent novels in the DI Ruth Hunter Snowdonia Series including ‘The Chester Killings’ have all ranked in the Amazon Top 10. He has sold over 2 million books to date. ‘The Dark Tide’, Simon’s first book in an Anglesey based crime series for publishing giant Harper Collins (Avon), was a major hit in 2022, reaching Amazon’s UK top five. His most recent ‘Dead in the Water’ was published in June. The Snowdonia based DI Ruth Hunter books are now set to be filmed as a major new television series, with shooting to begin in North Wales in 2024.
Tickets £5 – book online at: Simon McCleave event tickets from TicketSource
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Best of the books: our favourite new titles this month |
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The Life Impossible
Matt Haig
When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning from the bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
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Guilty by Definition
Susie Dent
When an anonymous letter is delivered to the Clarendon English Dictionary, it puzzles the team of lexicographers working there. It soon becomes clear that this is not the usual eccentric enquiry. The letter hints at secrets, lies, and a particular year. For Martha Thornhill, the new Senior Editor, the date can mean only one thing: the summer her brilliant, beautiful older sister Charlie went missing. After a decade spent living abroad, Martha has returned to her father, her home, and the city whose institutions have defined her family. But the ghosts she had thought to be at rest seem to have been waiting for her to return. When more letters arrive and the team pull apart the clues within them, the questions become more insistent and troubling.
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There are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
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This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of an ancient city of Mesopotamia, there lies hidden in the sand fragments of a long-forgotten poem. In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. Arthur's only chance of escaping poverty is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, Arthur's world opens up far beyond the slums, with one book soon sending him across the seas. In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptised with water brought from the holy sit of Lalish in Iraq. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon Narin and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people.
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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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