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Library Challenge 2025
We’re getting excited for The Library Challenge 2025, where themes of the natural world meet the magic of books.
Join The Library Challenge this summer for FREE to Go Green, Get Reading, and Get Rewards.
Why Participate?
Foster environmental awareness and reading for pleasure during the summer
Take part in free events and share your challenge experience with others
Complete tasks, earn stamps, and unlock free rewards like stickers, certificates, and more!
How It Works:
Sign Up: Visit any Gloucestershire library – it’s free! Receive your challenge journal with 9 exciting nature-themed tasks.
Explore Tasks: Dive into the challenge tasks – there’s something for everyone!
Get Stamped: Show completed tasks to our friendly library team. Collect stamps and rewards.
Level Up: Visit the library as often as you like. Special rewards await at each level!
Mark Your Calendar:
The Library Challenge runs from 12th July to 13th September 2025. Don’t miss out on the action!
Spread the Word!
Read, Grow, Explore!
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Lechlade Library – Regular Events
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.
Lechlade Library Book Club
We meet on the 4th Wednesday of the month to discuss the book chosen for that month, and to meet up with other readers.
Any questions please email Clare at info@lechladelibrary.co.uk
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.
Free Computer Help
Every Thursday 10am to 1pm – Free computer and IT help
No Question too Trivial! Free and No Need to Book!
In Person, Not on the Telephone. Come in and ASK:-
How to set up an email account
How to Print using Bluetooth?
How to research your Ancestry
Whatever IT and Computer Questions YOU have, We will try and ANSWER
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Local Author signs Books
If you are interested in local history we have some new books donated to us by local author Michael Boyes, who has also signed them for us as well.
They are available in our New Books section and, if someone has already borrowed the one you want, they can be reserved using our local reservation system.
Just ask a friendly volunteer at Lechlade Community Library and Tourist Information Centre
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FREE COMPUTER HELP
You told us you wanted help with your IT equipment, we have an IT and Computer Specialist who can help you!
Next in the Library Thursday 26th June.
No Question too Trivial!
Free and No Need to Book!
In Person, Not on the Telephone.
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Come in and ASK:-
How to set up an email account
How to Print using Bluetooth?
Whatever IT and Computer Questions YOU have
We will try and ANSWER
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Pam Ayres Visits Library
Pam Ayres MBE visited Lechlade Community Library and Tourist Information Centre on 25th June 2025.
Thank you Pam for visiting us, and for donating and signing your books. We really appreciate you supporting us.
Pam Ayres chatted to some of the library users.
Pam Ayres also signed some books for the library, and library users.
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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
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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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No One Saw A Thing
by Andrea Mara Two children get on the train. Only one gets off… No one saw it happen.Your two little girls jump on the train ahead of you. As you try to join them, the…
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The England Coast Path
by Stephen Neale The definitive guidebook to the entire 3,000-mile length of the new England Coast Path. For anyone planning a trip to the coast or a UK summer holiday, the new England Coast Path…
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How Not To Be A Political Wife
by Sarah Vine How Not to Be a Political Wife is an unflinching account of life at the heart of politics, and what it’s like to have politics rip the heart out of your life. It’s…
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Doggedly Onward – A Life In Poems
by Pam Ayres ‘When I look over the poems in this book, I can trace the course of my life. The various stages are all here: the young woman juggling various boyfriends, the wife adrift…
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We Are All Guilty Here
by Karin Slaughter Welcome to North Falls. A small town where everyone knows everyone. But nobody knows the truth. Emmy Clifton has lived here all her life. She thinks she knows her neighbours. She’s wrong. She…
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Am I Having Fun Now
by Suzi Ruffell ‘I’ve been fighting anxiety since I was a little kid, and I assumed it would always just be there, something that plagued me constantly, a bogeyman ready to jump out as soon…
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Private Revolutions
by Yuan Yang Yuan Yang, the first Chinese-born British MP, tells the stories of four Chinese women striving for a better future in an unequal society. From June, who dreams of going to university rather…
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Sleep: A Very Short Introduction
by Stephen Lockley & Russell Foster Why do we need sleep? How much sleep is enough? What is sleep? What happens when we don’t get enough? We spend about a third of our lives asleep – it…
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The First Gentleman
by Bill Clinton and James Patterson The President of the United States is up for re-election. Her husband is on trial for murder. Is the First Gentleman a killer? A pair of brilliant investigative journalists…
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Confessions
by Catherine Airey It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns…