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10 AT YOUR LIBRARY

'If music be the food of love, play on ...'
PIANO TUTOR WITH Your library (West Swindon or Moredon) has everything you need to
serenade the one you love on Valentine's Day.. and a lot more besides
TWENTY YEAR'S writes David Reed.
LESSONS Whatever your musical tastes struments at all levels, music scores
EXPERIENCE and abilities your library should from a wide variety of artistes, com-
If you are looking for have something for you. Both li- posers and musicals, biographies
offers Maths, English and
a piano teacher braries are displaying a range of of musicians and pop groups, and
Science in your home at items available for you to borrow. material covering periods of musi-
in West
Junior, GCSE and A Level. Whetheryou like classical, techno, cal history. Whatever you want
Swindon, rap, soul, rock, heavy metal, house, we should be able to get it for you.
call Age range: 6 to 50 easy listening, folk or musicals, Your library also has details of
we should be able to satisfy your local choirs and other music clubs
Stephanie: Boosty our confidence now needs. so come and find out what they do
West Swindon has over 450 and how to join.
(01793)873300 tapes (60p for 3 weeks) and both Wiltshire has a music and dance
Tel: 870257 or 823159
Moredon and West Swindon have library, based at Devizes, which
access to the thousands of tapes provides a musical information
and CDs (1 for 3 weeks plus 70p service as well as supporting mu-
Of interest to those of reservation charge) in other librar- sic and drama groups across the
county. Do ask for further details
ies across the county.
Both libraries have tutor books if you want to make use of this
retirement age.... or a bit older to teach you to play particular in- service.
Are you still independent BUT lonely - worried about Ten first novels at West Swindon
It's easy to read novelists you know but they won't write forever so why
overheads - unable to keep up garden and property?
not take a risk and try some of the following published.
Now could be the time for a change
Kate Atkinson - Behind the scenes Denise Goff - Past continuous.
Abbeyfield House, Bath Road, Swindon offers: atthemuseum. Saga. Storyof Ruby Saga. Bitter-sweet love stories of
Mellor and her eccentric family three sisters growing up in New-
* A room of your own * No heating bills
* Resident housekeeper
to furnish as you wish during the period from the Coro- castle during the 1940s.
2 meals a day * All at around £120 per week
* nation to first World War. Jan Henley - Other summers. Ro-
* No TV licence to pay Helen Carey -Lavender Road: a Lon- mance set in Wales and Manches-
don street at war. Saga. Family life ter, a story of two sisters divided
Telephone (01793) 538429 in Clapham from the outbreak of by love for the wrong man.
World War Two to the Blitz. Craig Holden - The river sorrow.
to look around without obligation. Don't delay, 'phone now!
Lawrence Carter - Julia Stone. Vic- Contemporary. Dr Lancaster's
torian romance. Adventuresome own nightmare past of heroin ad-
vicar's daughter Julia elopes with diction returns to haunt him when
her husband-to-be. Part of her drug-related victims start turning
HRIS knows it to be a mistake. up at his hospital.
Nicholas Carter- Turncoat's drum. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt - A
SLlppliers and lñstalle and Internal War/historical. First in a series crooked man. Thriller. A year after
corati ma relating the history of the English his daughter's death from a drug
Civil Wars through the eyes of or- overdose, Senator Schafer 's bill to
dinary men and women. legalise drug use is opposed by the
NEVER PAINT it down. Contemporary. Explores Gerald Lynch - Trout stream. Hor-
Norma Curtis - Living it up, living 'crooked man'.
the nature of modern relationships, ror exploring the nature of evil in
YOUR HOUSE AGAIN the expectation and the reality in strange and comic ways, as it af-
fects life in sleepy suburbia.
an unpredictable world.
WE do remove all timber from the exterior of
your home & replace it with PVCu cellular
profiles Poetry competition to bring out
WE do use British Board of Agrément (BBA) the best from local writers
approved materials
West Swindon based writer and poet David Pike from Grange Park
WE do offer a 10 year guarantee
is launching the Ligden Poetry Society for all aspiring poets.
WE do offer a free, no obligation survey and "People who write poetry for judged by BBC Wiltshire Sound
quotation, then let you make up your mind
both pleasure and publication need prcsen ter Shirley Ludford and Tim
WE do complete the installation with minimal a way of expressing their work," Noble of Greendown School. The
disruption and mess said David. "The Ligden Poetry winning three entrants will receive
Society will publish quarterly prizes of £50, £30 and £20 and the
WE do offer a wide choice of styles and advice
booklets for members, mainstream entries will be broadcast on BBC
on the best options for you poetry publishers, other poetry so- Wiltshire Sound. An anthology of
Maintenance Free
WE do have hundreds of satisfied customers cieties and central libraries." the winning and commended
Weatherproof
WE do offer a fast and friendly service Rot Proof The society is open to anybody works will be published.
over 16 years of age with an inter- To find out more about the
Doesn't Split,
We do look forward Warp or Crack est in poetry. Ligden Poetry Society and to enter
To get things moving, the soci-
the poetry competition, send a
to your call on (0793) 813305 Suitable for any ety is running a poetry competi- stamped addressed envelope to
age of property
tion which closes on 30 June. David Pike at Ligden Publishers,
REPLACE WOOD FOR GOOD Poems should be no more than 34 Lineacre, Grange Park, Swin-
40 lines and the entries will be don SN5 6DA.