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16 AT YOUR LIBRARY
WANTED Staff changes and summer holiday activities
Robert Cotterill writes
_______ • Books
bought Regular users of West Swindon as acting group librarian.
library will notice some staff We say farewell and good luck
for cash
changes. In the temporary absence to Isobel Mason who joined the
Tel: (01793) of Joyce Kirk-Browne, Vicki Field- service twenty one years ago and
727587 ing, who has worked at the library has worked at West Swindon for
for several years, has been appointed fourteen. She is leaving to join her
husband who has retired. We wish
Vicki and Isobel the best of luck.
Don't forget about the summer
activities for children. Anyone
from 3 to 16 can have great fun
joining the Reading Safari game,
^xali icd ^alxtcr ^j ^etcargtvr collecting colourful cards each time
L: (0h7 Vicki Fielding
titer r artd ^,^ter they read a book and winning an
invitation to a party in September. Central Library and 1.30pm at West
't11*L ztef J rr-C There are also opportunities to Swindon Library.
see a superb fun-packed magic Tickets at £1.50 each are still
show on 11 August, 11.30am at available.
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SWINDON SOF ATER a Anne Baker The Price of Love De- profound? Investigating, Colin is
nied her mother's love, Kate led to an old political scandal and
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catches the adoring eye of Jack a series of incidents with designs
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Mary Higgins Clark We'll Meet
260 Ferndale Road, Swindon. Tel: 527172 V may disapprove of the match and Again The story of two women,
Kate's mother is terrified that his- best friends, one of whom is
tory will repeat itself. charged and convicted of a mur-
REATIVE CURTAINS Robert Barnard Touched by the der the other may have commit-
The complete service from ideas to hanging, Dead After winning a stunning ted.
election victory, Colin Pinnock re-
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ceives a message saying, "who do Lass Jeannie Buchanan is a 'her-
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i quilted bed covers, Austrian blinds, cushions etc. in his place or something more ring-girl', employed to follow the
herring drifters along the east
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Did you know
girl from the assault of a group on
STOP! Hot weather and apathy were mind of the bridegroom. Jeannie
a stag night she fixes herself in the
about it?
at first holds him in complete con-
tempt, but she cannot forget him.
given as reasons that only three
Katie Flynn Polly's Angel When
people attended an afternoon
public meeting at the Link Centre
to persuade her mother to take
on 12 July to discuss the library Polly's father has a stroke, she tries
service. Twenty-five came to the him away from 1940s war time
LOOK and LISTEN before you commit yourself to any
evening meeting at the Civic Of- Liverpool and back to Dublin.
major home improvement. New windows, doors and fices on 14 July. When the city is bombed, her par-
especially a new conservatory In late June a consultants report ents refuse to leave their adopted
can transform your home... slated Swindon's libraries for city - and their family - in danger.
but its worth using this - CIIEc.t^jjsjg • low investment over many Sue Grafton OisforOutlaw Kinsey
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years, whilst libraries were not
Milhone rides again! The latest in
simple checklist: under Swindon's control
q cHO^cE• A re the the Grafton crime alphabet series.
• o#erin a • the inadequacy of the central
F range of designs and good Elisabeth McNeill Money Trou-
<" - s •
S,IL j lockin 9 options? various library - labelled as the worst of
REP bles When Helen Hunt's father,
O UTATION its kind in the country rich mill-owner, Howie Gates dies,
L • is it a well known • a limited range of books, audio
OCAL fi rm, we/l established, she unexpectedly embarks on a
with a re and video resources and the lack
putation to protect? hunt into the past to find the truth
of specialist equipment such as about a secret, her long-dead sister
CD ROMs, fax machines and
Q QUAL/TK Are the pro photocopiers. and a child never mentioned.
ducts they
install su pplied by a major
national manu • a mis-match between opening Leslie Thomas Other Times In the
facturer like autumn of 1939 James Bevan is a
Coastal? hours and user needs.
The report recognised that staff junior officer attached to a south
0 GUARA/yrEE./smy/nvestment deliver an excellent service in dif- coast anti-aircraft unit. From work-
properly protected? ing-class orphan to army officer-
ficult conditions.
Library service managers still how was this achieved?
want to hear your views. A survey Nicola Thorne Class Reunion It's
form is available from libraries the decade of liberation, love and
,ERMIN WINDOW which should be returned by 2 Au- hippiedom. Convent girls Clare,
gust. Pippa and Eleanor embark on the
Telephone 824419 The community and leisure serv- carousel of life. Clare marries,
ices committee will consider pub- Pippa becomes a bride of Christ
LA supplier and installer of C Windows, doors and conservatories
lic views on 16 September. and Eleanor ...?