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14 AT YOUR LIBRARY
Looking for the best children's books
WILLS Swindon library staff are to join forces with pupils from Dorcan and
Commonweal schools to vote for the best written children's book of
Professionally drawn by the year and the most distinguished illustrated book for children
writes Robert Cotterill.
The Andrews Annual The pupils will discuss six con- local authorities throughout the
long stay permits tenders for the Carnegie medal country have been received.
Less now available
Partnership for Bristol Street which is awarded annually by the The titles for discussion are:
than
car park Library Association for the best Carnegie
written book and seven for the
(01793) 642245 £44 per Close to the town Greenaway medal for outstand- David Almond Kit's Wilderness
month centre, railway Susan Cooper King of Shadows
A professionally prepared ing illustration. Gillian Cross Tightrope
station & designer
will can avoid delay outlet village Everyone will be allowed to vote Jenny Nimmo The Rinaldi Ring
and distress for your family for their choices and the recom- JR Rowling Harry Potter and the
Contact: Lesley Golsby mendations are passed to the Li-
From £25 inc. GWCE Properties brary Association. The children Prisoner of Azkaban
Home visit service from £35 inc. on Swindon (01793) 616333 will spend a fun-packed day at Jacqueline Wilson The Illustrated Mum
Wroughton Library and will be Greenaway
,111 able to listen to talks on book pro- Quentin Blake Fantastic Daisy
duction and what to look out for Babette Cole Artichoke
Hair in Funny Places
Re 0 -1 ne book. This is the second time the Debi Gliori No Matter What
when trying to evaluate a 'good'
Abel's Moon
Shirley Hughes
schools in this way and follows a
Health and Beauty library staff have worked with Geraldine McCaughrean
similar successful venture last year. Beauty and the Beast
P2 Cpl l^ i UL'LEA?[ . [RU LiUS The Library Association will an- Kate Petty Magnificent Music
nounce the winners in a few Book
Aromatherapy, ' gy, Electrolysis months after the nominations from Michael Rosen Rover
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Welcome back
Body treatments & more
Feel human again West Swindon Library is delighted to wel-
contact L a:Richman ... 01793 5 36 443 come back Joyce Kirk-Browne in her capac-
ity as Group Librarian, following a short
Rear of IN-SD r, hairdressing
absence.
19-21 Wood Street Otd Town Swindon Joyce will again head the senior team at the
library which comprises librarians Robert
Cotterill and Pamela Waddington and su-
pervisors Jean Emerson and Kristianne Drake
SPIELERS New publications at the West Swindon library

Gwendoline Butler Coffins Ghost Sarah Harrison Heaven's on Hold
Huge reductions FEVJ A parcel containing the dismem- Middle-aged, middle-class, mid-
bered limbs of an unknown woman dle-management and middle-of-
throughout LA^A.^S is found on the doorstep of a house, the-road, David Keating fears he is
now a woman's refuge, where John
the store Coffin used to live. The initials JC all of these. What saves him is his
middle-years marriage to tough,
and a cryptic message on the par- driven Annet: an attraction of op-
cel suggest a personal link which posites. The passion and the prob-
is emphasised when Coffin's pho- lems of their late flowering love
tograph is found in a handbag dis- give meaning to David's life.
carded near the scene. Lynda La Plante
Andy McNab Crisis Four Trial and Retribution 3
Large reductions on all Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now working Helen Booth, a petite 15 year old
as 'K' for British Intelligence on goes missing on her paper round.
special orders including deniable operations, is tough, re- A telephone call leads the police to
sourceful, ruthless and highly
a boathouse in Putney where they
Parker Knoll, G Plan, Nathan, La-Z-Boy, trained - a master of his trade. discover her blood-stained jacket
Sarah is beautiful, steel willed, in- and trousers. A murder enquiry is
Strongbow, Myers Beds, to name but a few. telligent and cunning - the only launched, headed by Detective Su-
woman Stone has ever let under perintendent Michael Walker.
Your old furniture disposed of if required. his guard. And now he's been sent Stephen Leather The Bombmaker
to deep south of America to hunt Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's
All major credit cards accepted. her down. most deadly killers, until a mis-
Catherine Cookson placed bomb ripped a group of
Come and talk to the family run A House Divided passing kids apart, and she left all
business that really cares!! Invalided out of the army at the that behind her. Now years later,
end of the second world war, Mat- she's got a whole new life with a
SPILLERS FURNISHINGS thew Wallingham can't even look new family and her days of vio-
forward to his new future. As he lence seem a distant memory. But
lies in a hospital bed, he wonders then her daughter is kidnapped by
what place there is for a blind man persons unknown, and she is black-
in the new social order of a Britain mailed into building a huge explo-
adjusting to the realities of post sive device for them, target un-
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