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
Telephone: 0161 912 5920
Second Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm
February 9 - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A Dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and jealousy becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, and giving voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work.
February 9 - The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young girl and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head to head (or hand to fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favourite motifs of physical and moral challenge.
Coppice Library
Telephone: 0161 912 3560
Group one - first Monday of the month 11.00am - 12.00 noon. Unfortunately the group is full and we cannot accept any new members at present.
March 1 - Tales of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
This book explores the author's quest to understand his mother's life and suicide against the background of the establishment of the State of Israel. The suicide is the tragic heart of a story that dives into 120 years of family history and a love hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilnia and Odessa via Poland and Prague to Israel itself. History and humanity make up this portrait of the artist who witnessed the birth of a nation.
Group two - second Thursday of the month 2.00 - 3.00pm - Killer-Thrillers @ Coppice
February 11 - Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson
Group three - last Wednesday of the month at 2.00pm
Davyhulme Library
Telephone: 0161 912 2880
Third Monday of the month 6.00-7.00 pm - Davyhulme Crime and Mystery Reading Group.
Hale Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5966
First Monday of the month 2 - 3.30pm
February 8 - A Scandalous Man by Gavin Esler
Satirical 'Faction' about key political events in Britain at the end of and just after the Thatcher era. Interesting, especially in the light of the recent expenses scandals. Fluently written by a man in the know as one of the BBC's political correspondents
Old Trafford Library
Telephone: 0161 912 4650
Third Thursday of the month 10am
Partington Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5450
A junior reading group is held in the school holidays 2.00 - 3.00pm
Sale Library
Telephone: 0161 912 3008
Second Monday of the month 6.00 - 7.00pm.
February 8
Each member of the group will bring along a book they would like to discuss. We will also discuss which books we would like to read and discuss over the next few months.
Stretford Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5150
Group one - third Wednesday of the month at 2pm
February 17 - A Simple Act of Violence by R J Ellory
Washington, embroiled in the mid-term elections, did not want to hear about serial killings. But when the newspapers reported a fourth murder, when they gave the killer a name and details of his horrendous crimes, there were few people who could ignore it. Detective Robert Miller is assigned to the case, and rapidly uncovers a complication - the victims do not officially exist. Their personal details do not register on any known systems. And as Miller unearths ever more disturbing facts, he starts to face truths so far removed from his own reality that he begins to fear for his life.
Group two - fourth Thursday of the month at 6pm.
February 25 - Blonde Roots by Bernadine Evaristo
Welcome to the world turned upside down. One minute, Doris, from England is playing hide and seek with her sisters in the fields behind their cottage. The next someone puts a bag over her head and she ends up in the hold of a slave ship sailing to the New World. In this fantastically imaginative inversion of the transatlantic slave trade - in which 'whytes' are enslaved by black people - Bernadine Evaristo has created a thought provoking satire that is as accessible and readable as it is intelligent and insightful. Blonde Roots brings the shackles and cries of long ago barbarity uncomfortably close and raises timely questions about the society of today.
Timperley Library
Telephone: 0161 912 5600
First Monday of the month 2.30 - 3.30pm
Urmston Library
Telephone: 0161 912 2727
Group one - First Thursday of the month 2.00 - 3.00pm
Group two - Last Thursday of the month 6.30 - 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.
February 25 - The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Woodsend Library
Telephone: 0161 912 2919
Third Monday of the month 2.00 - 3.30pm
February 15 - Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna
Rosa Lane is a fashionable journalist in her thirties, already the picture of London achievement. Her handsome boyfriend is something in politics and her friends are confident, prosperous and ambitious. But one afternoon, staring at her computer screen at work, she fails to see the point, walks out of her job - and begins her fall from modern grace.
Who to contact
Email: libraries@trafford.gov.uk
This page was last reviewed on 2 February 2010
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