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AT YOUR LIBRARY
Conservationists and costs
Linda's Top 10 Recommendations
West Swindon Librarian Linda Black reviews the month ahead 1. Sheldon, Sidney: Sands of passion, intrigue and rebellion.
Conservationists amongst you might borrow from the library by the due Time (Collins) - a tale of four Adventure, eroticism and
be interested in the exhibition we are date. Fines charges are not to be nuns who are abruptly forced to mystery and a masterly recreation
accommodating between 29 March increased for the first week overdue flee the secure environment of of a vanished civilisation - 900
and 26 April. Entitled 'Our to allow for the occasional oversight, their Spanish convent and face a pages so leave plenty of spare
Conservation Area', the exhibition but thereafter we will be charging 8p hostile world they long ago time!
relates to the conservation area which per day per adult item overdue and
has been created behind the Holy 3p per day per junior item. abandoned - history, romance 7. Strong, Terance: That last
Rood Junior School. Local photo- Remember, if you cannot return and suspense! Mountain (Hodder & Stoughton)
grapher Denis Bird has produced items, to ring up to renew them or 2. Cornwell, Bernard: Sharpe's - our spy thriller recommendation
some marvellous photographs of the drop us a line. Many people do not Revenge (Collins) - the tenth in for the month - S.A.S. and Soviet
area as it developed, together with realize that if the library is closed the very popular Sharpe's series Spetsnaz teams clash in a
work in other media by the children they may drop their books into the set in the Peninsular War - more ferociously exciting battle set in
from the school. library letterbox by the main entrance bloody conflict from Mr the frozen mountains of Sweden.
Alas, some doom and gloom to to the Link building. The new charge Cornwell. 8. Thompson, E.V.: God's
report this month as regrettably to reserve a book will be 35p and to
several of our charges will be borrow a music cassette will be 30p - 3. Ferrars, Elizabeth: Trial by Highlander (MacMillan) - love,
increased as from 1 April. Do be very still very good value of course! A Fury (Collins) -first rate mystery loyalty and independence set in
careful to return all the items you complete list of all the new charges is suspense from this classic writer. eighteenth century Scotland at the
available at the library enquiry desk. 4. Mcllvanney, William: time of the Highland Clearances.
Walking Wounded (Hodder & 9. Williams, Simon: Talking
Stoughton) - the characters are Oscars (Heinemann) - tension
ordinary people whose lives and intrigue in this first novel
retain 'the stubborn resplendence from actor Simon Williams - dog
of unfulfilled dreams' - eat dog world of Hollywood
beautifully written by the author politics!
of 'Docherty'. 10. Jenkins, Geoffrey: Hold
5. Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia: The down a Shadow (Collins) - a high
Victory (McDonald) - the twelfth speed adventure thriller set
in the 'Dynasty Series'. around the opening of a new dam
6. Cooney, Eleanor & Altiera, in a small African state - will the
Daniel: Court of the Lion baddies be successful in their
(MichaelJoseph) - Imperial China attempt to destroy the dam and
is brought sensationally to life in release a killer flood? - this could
this panoramic story of love and be quite a popular one!
Pictured far left: Rowena Mawle, manager of Barclays Bank West
Swindon branch, with the entries to the collage competition sponsored
by the bank. Left: Lee Clark from Oliver Tomkins School has a go at
sculpture during Pat Elmores exhibition in March

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