Readers' groups

Readers' groups have monthly meetings at each of our libraries on the dates shown. 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

• 7 May – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• 4 June – Mapp and Lucia by E F Benson
• 2 July – The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
• August  – no meeting
• 3 September – Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
• 1 October – Any Human Heart by William Boyd
• 5 November – Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
• 3 December – Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

Evening group

One Tuesday a month at the changed time of 7:45pm

• 14 May – Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• June – TBC
• 9 July – Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
• 9 July – Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• 6 August – Slow Horses by Mick Herron
• 3 September – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• 1 October – Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
• 12 November – Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
• 10 December – The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell

Coppice Library

Morning group

First Monday of the month at 11am

• 13 May – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (change of date due to Early Spring Bank Holiday)
• 3 June – Speak Of The Devil by Rose Wilding
• 1 July – Lying Life Of Adults by Elena Ferrante
• 5 August – The Collector by John Fowles
• 2 September – Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• 7 October – My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
• 4 November – Cloud Street by Tim Winton  
• 2 December – The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• 6 January – You have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead

Afternoon group

Last Tuesday of the month at 2pm

• 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

• TBC

Old Trafford Library

Morning group

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

• 25 April – The Exquisite Art of Getting Even by Alexander McCall Smith
• 30 May – The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
• 27 June – The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
• 25 July – Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
• 29 August – The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
• 26 September – Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald
• 31 October – The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Sale Library

Afternoon group – Online Readers' Group on Teams

First Friday of the month at 12 noon

• 3 May – The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
• 7 June – Calypso by David Sedaris
• 12 July – Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
• 2 August – My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
• 13 September – The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
• 4 October – The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• 1 November – The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
• 6 December – The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse

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

• 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

• 27 April – This Much is True by Miriam Margoyles
• 25 May – You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead
• 22 June – The Exquisite Art of Getting Even – Alexander McCall Smith (please note change of date from 29 June)
• 27 July – Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• 24 August – The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• 28 September The Heart's Invisible Furies – John Boyne
• 26 October – Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
• 30 November – Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
• TBC Dec – The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Timperley Library

Afternoon group

First Monday of the month at 2pm

• 13 May – The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• 3 June – The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• 1 July – What Maisie Knew by Henry James
• 5 August – The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• 2 September – The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
• 7 October – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• 4 November – Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
• 2 December – Small Things like These by Claire Keegan

Urmston Library

Afternoon group

Fourth Thursday of the month at 2pm

• 25 April – A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
• 23 May – A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
• 27 June – The Light Between Oceans by Steadman
• 25 July – Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
• 22 August – Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
• 26 September – A Spool of Blue Thread by Ann Tyler
• 24 October – A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• 28 November – The Muse by Jessie Burton
• TBC December – Winter in Madrid by CJ Sansom

Afternoon crime time

Last Friday of the month at 2pm

• 26 April – Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
• 31 May – Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith
• 28 June - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Evening page turners

Third Tuesday of the month at 6pm

• 23 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

• 20 August – Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

LGBT+ readers' evening group

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

• 30 April – The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue
• 28 May – Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• 25 June – TBC
• 30 July – Speak of the Devil by Rose Wilding

Woodsend Library

Afternoon group

Third Monday of the month at 2pm

• 15 April – The Collector by John Fowles
• 20 May – The Shock of the Fall by Nigel Filer
• 17 June – Reservoir 13 by John MacGregor
• 15 July – Exit Music by Ian Rankin
• 19 August – Keeping on Keeping On by Alan Bennett
• 16 September – North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell