Breadcrumb Trail
Readers' Groups for Adults
A number of Readers Groups have been set up in Trafford with a view to promoting an interest in literature. They are informal gatherings of people from all backgrounds who meet on a regular basis to talk about books and to share their enthusiasm for reading.
Each group has a slightly different approach to the content of the meeting and may discuss themes, fiction genres, favourite titles or perhaps a "Book of the Month". In all cases the common thread is the sharing and enjoyment of books.
Reading groups are held at the following libraries:
- Altrincham Library
- Coppice Library
- Davyhulme Library
- Hale Library
- Old Trafford Library
- Partington Library
- Sale Library
- Stretford Library
- Timperley Library
- Urmston Library
- Woodsend Library
Altrincham Library
When: Second Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm
Coming up: August 10 - The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Nine year old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during the funeral for her brother, she manages to steal a macabre book: it is, in fact, a gravediggers' instruction manual. This is the first of many books which will pass through her hands as the carnage of the Second World War begins to hungrily claim lives. Both Liesel and her fellow inhabitants of Himmel Street will find themselves changed by both words on the printed page and the horrendous events happening around them.
Coppice Library
Telephone: 0161 912 3560
When:
Group one - first Monday of the month 11am - 12noon. Unfortunately the group is full and we cannot accept any new members at present.
Group two - second Thursday of the month 2.00 - 3.00pm - Killer-Thrillers @ Coppice
Group three - last Wednesday of the month at 2.00pm
Davyhulme Library
Telephone: 0161 912 2880
When: Third Monday of the month 6pm - 7pm - Davyhulme Crime and Mystery Reading Group.
Hale Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5966
When: First Tuesday of the month 2 - 3.30pm
Coming up: September 7 - Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence
The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul, determined that they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother's suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence's native Nottinghamshire, Sons and Lovers (1913) is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.
Old Trafford Library
Telephone: 0161 912 4650
When: Third Thursday of the month 10am.
Partington Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5450
When: A junior reading group is held in the school holidays 2pm - 3pm.
Sale Library
Telephone: 0161 912 3008
When: Second Monday of the month 6pm - 7pm.
Coming up: Monday 13 September at 6pm - The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Set in Sheffield, The Northern Clemency charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours the Sellers family, newly arrived from London. In the background, England is changing: from a manufacturing and industrial based economy into a new world of shops, restaurants and service industries, a shift particularly marked in the North with the miners' strike of 1984, which has a dramatic impact on both families. Inspired by the expansive scale and webs of relationships of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels, The Northern Clemency shows Philip Hensher to be one of the great chroniclers of English life.
Stretford Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5150
When:
Group one - third Wednesday of the month at 2pm - no meeting in August.
Group two - fourth Thursday of the month at 6pm.
Coming up: September 15 - The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are moving to New England and a house of their own - a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants. She loves her husband, but feels there may be trouble ahead. Nathan, however is boyishly excited that their next door neighbour is the eminent Senator Tom Naughton, a political hero of his, now in his seventies. The Senator is nowhere to be seen, but Meri strikes up an unexpected friendship with his wife, the elegant Delia, sensing that she has much to learn from her - about marriage, love and motherhood. But she soon comes close to a terrible breach of trust that could ruin everything.
August 26 - Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about the country that had produced Marmite, zebra crossings and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells. With wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure. The result is a social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain.
Timperley Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5600
When: First Monday of the month 2.30 - 3.30pm
Coming up: September 6 - Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
Set between 1974 and 1994 in a quiet suburb of Sheffield, The Northern Clemency charts the lives of two ordinary, lower middle class families: the Glovers and the Sellers. The incomer Sellers, with their posh voices, move up from London and land slap in the middle of a crisis at the Glovers. Against the backdrop of the Thatcher years, with the great social earthquake of the miners' strike and the change from an industrial to a service led society at its heart, the lives of the two families unfold, lent a heroic resonance by the intimacy with which we come to know them.
Urmston Library
Telephone: 0161 912 2727
When:
Group one - First Thursday of the month 2pm - 3pm
Group two - Last Thursday of the month 6.30pm - 7.30pm - wine and light refreshments provided. If you would like to join this group please ask for details at the library counter. There is a waiting list to join.
Woodsend Library
Telephone: 0161 912 2919
When: Third Monday of the month 2pm - 3.30pm.
Coming up: August 16 - Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evanisto
A hugely imaginative tale that invites important debates, challenging fundamental perceptions of race, culture and history. This brilliant novel will fulfill Evaristo's purpose of making readers view the transatlantic slave trade with fresh eyes.
Who to contact
Email: libraries@trafford.gov.uk
This page was last reviewed on 18 August 2010
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