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10 AT YOUR LIBRARY
Catering for other nationals
Patricia Hulme Phil Edwards describes the growing collection of Japanese literature
SECRETARIAL 40 ,
Visrr Us FOR THE DRESS In recent years Japanese companies
SERVICES OF YouR DREAMS have made an impact on the indus-
trial scene in Swindon.
At WestSwindon Library we hold
A swift effective service a collection of books , available for
in your office or mine Af ; trptate general loan, donated by members
• Letters • Mailshots 'brthe oftheJapanesecommunity who now
• Reports • Manuscripts ,Uri I live in the town. The collection
• Curriculum Vitae TOP DESIGNER DRESSES & includes novels, some non-fiction
• Theses • Dissertations ACCESSORIES 10 BUY OR HIRE and books for children. In addition
to providing welcome reading
Free collection & delivery BEAUTIFUL BALLGOWNS FOR HIRE material for Japanese workers and
FOR FRIENDLY, PERSONAL
service if required their families,italso supplements the
ATTENTION, RING readingof those studying Ja pa nese,
Telephone 722486 SWINDON 481346 whether for work purposes or
holidays injapan. To assist the latter,
or if you'd like to try your hand at it,
LETTING YO, we also have Japanese language
cassettes, including a 'Travel Pack' Mrs Chzuko Yoshimura and Mrs Tomo
We require for those intending to visit Japan. Kitajima who look after the Japanese
in West S Members of the Japanese books at the library
community, as well as using the entitled 'Boy' and 'Going Solo' have
offerin• stock we already have, would be been re-issued in a single volume.
very welcome to donate further The New YorkTimes declared 'Boy'
books so that we can continually 'as frightening and funny as his
refresh the collection. Later in the fiction' and gives an insight into the
year we will hold a display man and his work. 'Going Solo'
illustratingJapanese life and culture. includes his experiences as a fighter
Music Scores and Cassettes pilot in World War H.
There must be lots of budding and 'Bryan Adams: The Inside Story' by
accomplished musicians in a lively Hugh Gregory, reveals the
community like West Swindon and background to the world-wide
we may have just the thing to test success of the Canadian rock star,
their skills. We hold a selection of from his birth in Ontario to the
music scores, including shows such 'massive' hit single '(Everything I
as 'Godspell' and 'A Little Night Mu- Do) IDolt For You'.
COOKS sic', pop and country music, and Of local interest, 'Our Swindon,
music from the classical repertory. When Summer Suns Were Glowing,
These are all available for loan and 1939-1941' by Trevor Cockhill . I
T.V& the collection is changed every six quote from the cover of the book,
months to provide fresh challenge. which describes it as an 'irreverent
The scores are located with the but evocative and perceptive view
VIDEO general books on music. For the of the town as seen by one of its
REPAIR normal reservation fee (50p) we can younger residents during the early
request other scores from within the years of World War II (where) there
County's stock. is talk of shoes, the toe-caps ruined
SERVICE Whilst on the sub ject of music, we by kicking tins along Cow Lane; of
do hold music cassettes, again sealing wax; of cabbages grown in
FREE Not just a Garden representing a wide range from pop thegreat 'Dig for Victory'campaign;
to classical. These can be borrowed and of courseof Kings-those mighty
Home Estimates Centre - more a for the charge of 50p per cassette. Leviathans of the GWR!'
New Books
A nostalgic read to put you in the
Repairs by gardeners' paradise The subject of Jonathan Margolis's right frame of mind for our
Qualified new book was born in Weston- exhibition perhaps
where you can buy unusual
Engineers. Super-Mare, was 6 foot 4 inches at Exhibitions
Sales & Rentals and hard to find varieties of age thirteen and almost became a June sees the return to West Swin-
Fruit Trees, Bedding Plants,
All Work Herbaceous Perennials, solicitor before going on to don Library of paintings by Phil
Cambridge and discovering the King, featuring re-constructed
Guaranteed Geraniums Fuschias, Roses, footlights. Who is he? Well, the title scenes of old Swindon. This proved
Tel: Swindon Hanging Baskets, Trees, gives it away: 'Cleese Encounters'. very popular last year and Mr King
John Cleese, former Python, star of hopes to repeat his success. The
Shrubs, Alpines,
825795 Heathers and Conifers Pawlty Towers' and 'A Fish Called exhibition runs for just two weeks,
and get expert advice from Wanda', whose other interests have from 30 May to 13 June.
NO. the people who grow them taken him into the worlds of Phil King also provides the
management training videos, exhibition for the second half of the
Grange Farm Nurseries psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, month,and again he takes us back in
CALL Haydon End Lane and politics. A complex character time with a display of old
Entrance off Lady Lane and indeed. typewriters, dating back to the early
Amongst the most popular of years of the century. It will be
OUT Westfield Way, Haydon Wick children's authors is Roald Dahl, fascinating to see how technology
© Swindon 721221 who died at the end of 1990. His has changed this familiar item of
CHARGE OPEN DAILY two-volume memoirs of childhood, office equipment. The exhibition
adolescence and early twenties, runs from 13 June until 27 June.