Readers' groups

Readers' groups have monthly meetings at each of our libraries on the dates shown below. There is also a monthly online readers group. If you'd like to join one of the readers' groups, or would like more information, email librarynews@trafford.gov.uk.

Altrincham Library

Morning group

First Tuesday of the month at 10am

• 5 December -  The Survivors by Jane Harper 

Evening group

One Tuesday a month at 7:30pm. 

• 12 December – Stoner by John Williams

Coppice Library

Morning group

First Monday of the month at 11am

• 4 December - Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
• 8 January - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (change of date due to Bank Holiday on 1 January)

• 5 February - A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

Afternoon group

Last Tuesday of the month at 2pm

• December - TBC 
• 30 January - A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult and Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• 27 February - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• 26 March - The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson
• 30 April - A Room with a View by E M Forster
• 28 May - The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Simon Mawer
• 25 June - The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
• 30 July - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• 27 August - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• 24 September - Hamnett by Maggie O’Farrell
• 29 October - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• 26 November - The Lake House by Kate Morton 

Afternoon group

Second Wednesday of the month at 2pm

• 13 December -  Sweet Home by Wendy Erskine
• 10 January - American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
• 14 February - Unsettled Ground by Clare Fuller 
• 13 March - Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• 10 April - The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish

Old Trafford Library

Morning group

Last Thursday of the month 10:30am to 12:00 noon at Limelight

• 28 December – The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• 25 January – Snap by Belinda Bauer
• 29 February – The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
• 28 March – Let Me Lie by Claire Mackintosh

Sale Library

Afternoon group - Online Readers' Group on Teams

First Friday of the month at 12:00 noon.

• 1 December – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (on Teams)
• 5 January – Digging to America by Anne Tyler (on Teams)
• 2 February – The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan (on Teams)
• 1 March – Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell (on Teams)
• 12 April – Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (on Teams)
• 3 May – The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (on Teams)
• 7 June – Calypso by David Sedaris (on Teams)
• 5 July – Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller (on Teams)
• 2 August – My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (on Teams)
• 6 September – The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (on Teams)
• 4 October – The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (on Teams)
• 1 November – The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (on Teams)
• 6 December – The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse (on Teams)

The group meets online on Microsoft Teams. To request a link to the sessions email sale.library@trafford.gov.uk

Evening group

Second Monday of the month at 6pm

• 11 December - The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish
• 8 January - Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson
• 12 February - The Collector by John Fowles
• 11 March - The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
• 8 April - How to Kill Men and Get Away With It  by Katy Brent
• 13 May - Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• 10 June - Small things like these by Claire Keegan

Stretford Library

Morning group

Last Saturday of the month at 11am

• December – TBC

Timperley Library

Afternoon group

First Monday of the month at 2pm

• 4 December - The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

Urmston Library

Afternoon group

Fourth Thursday of the month at 2pm

• 21 December - What Maisie Knew by Henry James

Afternoon crime time

Last Friday of the month at 2pm

• 15 December - TBC

Evening page turners

• December – No meeting
• 21 January – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
• 20 February – The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
• 19 March – What Maisie Knew by Henry James
• 16 April – The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
• 21 May – Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket by Hilma Wolitzer
• 18 June – The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• 16 July – Carol by Patricia Highsmith

LGBT+ readers' group

Evening group

Last Tuesday of the month 5:30pm to 6:30pm, for more details email Urmston.library@trafford.gov.uk

• TBC

Woodsend Library

Afternoon group

Third Monday of the month at 2pm

• 18 December – The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes