National Libraries Day 9 February 2013

We're celebrating National Libraries Day on 9 February by inviting you to Tweet about what you're reading via #haltonreads. It might be a book, magazine, newspaper, online blog, educational text, manual or comic ... in fact, anything you're reading.

And it's not just on National Libraries Day.  You can continue to connect with other readers via #haltonreads on our Twitter page

Halton Libraries 2012 book of the year

Last night Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies was as named Halton Libraries 2012 book of the year.  The book is the second in a planned trilogy about the turbulent life and relationships of King Henry VIII’s advisor Thomas Cromwell. The first book in the trilogy, Wolf Hall, was awarded the Man Booker in 2009, making Miss Mantel, 60, the first UK author to win the Booker Prize twice. Earlier this week the title won the Costa prize book prize.

Halton readers voted online and at an event that took place in Halton lea Library, Bring up the Bodies is available from Halton Libraries in hardcopy and also as an audio book

Bring up the Bodies.