Book promotions

There's always something new to inspire your reading at our libraries. See below for details of some of our current displays and promotions.

• Author of the month - Anne Tyler
• Richard and July
• RaW  "Read More and write better with the BBC"

 

Previous Promotions:

• Orange Prize

 

Author of the month - Anne Tyler

Visit Cox Green Library during September to borrow her books.

Born in Minneapolis in 1941, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons, and the Accidental Tourist was made into a major film. She has lived for many years in Baltimore, where her novels are set.

Novels include:

Celestial Navigation
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
A Patchwork Planet
Back when we were grownups
The Amateur Marriage
Digging to America

Richard and Judy

2008 Book List

• The Outcast by Sadie Jones
• No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Turner
• East of the Sun by Julia GregsonDown River by John hart
• The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller
• Addition by Toni Jordan
• The Resurrectionist by James Bradley

Orange Prize

The winner of this years Orange Prize was Rose Tremain, The Road Home

The other 5 shortlisted nomenees were:

• Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
• Lottery by Patricia Wood
• Lullabies for little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
• The Outcast by Sadie Jones
• When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson

 

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RaW  "Read More and write better with the BBC"

Windsor and Maidenhead libraries is supporting the BBC's RaW campaign with a brand new collections of books, there to help you enjoy your reading and writing. 

For more information pop in to your local library or check out the RaW website where you can try out quizzes and games, get free phone coaching, and pick up some great book suggestions:  Link to BBC RaW website at www.bbc.co.uk/raw

'Quick Read' books available to borrow!

All the 'Quick Read' books are now available for you to borrow at Windsor and Maidenhead libraries!  These are easy to read books written by famous authors, including Joanna Trollope, Minette Walters and Maeve Binchy.  

There is also more information on the 'Quick Reads' at the Literacy Trust  website. Link to http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/vitallink/Quickreads.html 

 

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