Latest review from our 'Reading Families'

I highly recommend 'Cross Bones Yard' by Kate Rhodes.  What a read!  This book was very difficult to put down.  The main character of Alice Quentin is someone we can all relate to.  I had great empathy for her; being drawn into her world, her life, her fears, her emotions and her terrors.

Her discovery of a body is only the beginning of the twists and turns of this engrossing rollercoaster of a read and you will not be disappointed at the surprising end.  Even I couldn’t believe it, I didn’t want it to be so L  This book is a truly exhilarating thriller that you will not be able to put down.

Tracy Smith

You and Harry Styles

Get your picture taken with Harry Styles at our ONE DIRECTION EXPERIENCE event for young people. Hear all the inside information from the One Direction author @SarahOliverAtoZ at Halton Lea library on Wednesday 14 August from 2 to 4pm.

Harry awaits YOU! Games, quiz and lots of prizes and fun!

Creepy House crafts

Come and join us for loads of fun making creepy stuff you can take home and scare people with.  Our sessions are:

Thursday 1 August 10.30 to 11.30 at RUNCORN

Thursday 1 August 2.00 to 3.00 at DITTON

Tuesday 6 August 10.30 to 11.30 at HALTON LEA

Tuesday 6 August 2.00 to 3.00 at WIDNES

Hope to see you there

Two more summer events for you calendar

Two great events planned for the Summer. Some of the staff are really excited about the One direction day at Halton Lea Library complete with cardboard cutout of Harry oooh! So turn up with your best smile Wed 14th August 2 - 4pm at Halton Lea Library. Meet Sarah Oliver author of Around the World with One Direction: The True Stories as Told by the Fans and Harry Styles / Niall Horan - the Biography. Test your One Direction knowledge and be in with a chance to win some prizes.

But don't think Widnes has been left out ... On Friday 16th 1 – 3pm we have booked Mako education to run some filmmaking workshops. Become a youtube star against an exotic background, promote the library, your favourite book, whatever you want so long as it is reading or writing related. Flyers for this will be out soon which I will put on facebook for you to send out to all your contacts.

Creepy House activities for 5 to 11 year olds

Join us for some spine-tingling fun.  We've got Grandpa Joe coming to our libraries later this months.  He'll be at:

Ditton library on Friday 26 July from 3.30 to 4.30
Halton Lea library on Wednesday 31 July from 10.30 to 11.30
Widnes library on Wednesday 31 July from 2.00 to 3.00

Come along if you dare!

"Broken Time" workshop at Widnes library

A brilliant opportunity for budding young writers and actors to take part in a professionally led workshop, based on Mick Martin's play, Broken Time.

Participants will use scenes from the play to explore writing about character, and how to create tension through the written word.

This FREE event is part of the Try Reading project, a programme of cultural events taking place across the north of England linked to the Rugby League World Cup 2013.  It's at Widnes library on Wednesday 17 July 5.00 to 6.30pm.

See a trailer for the play here.

Reading Rewards challenge

Reading Rewards challenges you to choose from 8 different sorts of reading so that you will almost inevitably read something that you might not have chosen to read previously. Hopefully this way you will discover some new sorts of reading to enjoy again in the future.

You can enter the challenge at any of our libraries or online and have the chance to win one of two £50 prizes.