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Pam Ayres at the Library

Wednesday 25th June 11am!

Our favourite author is back with us on Wednesday 25th June to sign books!

Pam Ayres MBE officially re-opened our library on December 5th 2024, after the refurbishment that gave our community library the light and bright feel it has now, as well as more book capacity.

Pam declared the library open again with some personal stories, and trademark poetry. She also went on to read all of the winning entries from the poetry competition arranged in line with the re-opening.

Since then she has very kindly donated several of her books to the library and is now coming in to personally sign them for us.

Please come and meet her on Wednesday 25th June at 11am when she will spend some time speaking with us and giving autographs. 

So if you would like to meet the author who has had books in the Sunday Times bestseller charts in almost every decade since the 1970s, put the date in your diary!

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Need Computer Help?

Ask our Computer and IT specialist any questions you may have.

Thursday 19th June 10am until 1pm

FREE – NO NEED TO BOOK

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Lechlade Library Craft Club

Craft and Chat at Lechlade Library.

A FREE monthly meet-up for craft enthusiasts.

Bring along a craft project and chat.

SECOND Tuesday of every month 10-30am – 12.30pm.

FREE of charge.

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Tourist Bus

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Lechlade Library Book Club

The Book for discussion at our next meeting on Wednesday 25th June at 5.30pm in the Library is “Go As A River” by Shelley Read.

We meet on the 4th Wednesday of the month to discuss the story and meet up with other readers. Any questions please email Clare at info@lechladelibrary.co.uk

Turned

Writer, Emma Bloor, visited us in the library on Saturday to talk about her fantastic book ‘Turned’ and to autograph copies of the book.

The story is based in, and the characters live in, locations within Lechlade, Highworth, Swindon, Burford and Fairford!!! It is a twistingly great page turner of a book.

We have a couple of copies of ‘Turned’ in the library if you would like to borrow it to read.

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Mah Jong

“The game of Mah Jong is fairly easy to learn, though mastering the game is said to take a lifetime!”

Would you like to learn to play???

Then email us at info@lechladelibrary.co.uk to book your place.

We meet the first and third Wednesdays of every month 4-6pm in the library.

New Library Books

Here’s the latest books from our collection, we have many more books in the library, for all the books we’ve published use the main menu.

As a Lechlade Library Member you can reserve our New Books. Simply phone us on 01367 252631 or call into the Library. We have a written system in place especially for our Members.

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    Give Me The Mountains by Anne Swan

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  • A Death on Location

    A Death on Location

    by Richard Coles It’s spring 1990, and in Champton the whole village is aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie has taken over Lord de Floures’ Champton House as its set location. As the actors and…

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  • Exploring the Thames Rivers and Streams

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  • The Cardinal

    The Cardinal

    By Alison Weir AN EXTRAORDINARY RISE TO POWER. A TRAGIC FALL FROM GRACE. It begins with young Tom Wolsey, the bright and brilliant son of a Suffolk tradesman, sent to study at Oxford at just…

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  • Nightshade

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    by Michael Connelly Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell has been “exiled” to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island, after department politics drove him off a homicide desk on the mainland. But while following…

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  • The Names

    The Names

    by Florence Knapp THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIt is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends…

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  • Never Flinch

    Never Flinch

    by Stephen King When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a disturbing letter from a person threatening to ‘kill thirteen innocents and one guilty’ in ‘an act of atonement for the needless death of an…

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  • Someone We Know

    Someone We Know

    by Shari Lapena It can be hard keeping secrets in a tight-knit neighbourhood. In a tranquil, leafy suburb of ordinary streets – one where everyone is polite and friendly – an anonymous note has been…

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  • Favourite Daughter

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    by Morgan Dick THESE TWO STRANGERS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON . . . THEIR FATHER. ‘He left you some money.’ Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had rung…

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  • Give Me The Mountains

    Give Me The Mountains

    by Anne Swan ‘After the war, the country got back to the Season when young ladies were on show like the racehorses in the paddock prior to a race …’ In 1940s England, three generations of…

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