Library staff members Lesley Conway and Pia Butcher run a radio show each Wednesday 12:05pm-12:45pm on Eastern FM 98.1 called The Eastern Regional Library Show. Tune in next Wednesday for a great show.
On Wednesday's show
School holidays are just around the corner, only ten days away in fact, and this is when we remind you that there is a wonderful range of activities for children at all of our branches. Check out the program on our website.
I am also going to encourage mum's who might have the chance, to sit back and read a book over the holidays (no rushing to get the kids to school, to basketball training and piano lessons for two weeks!).
An author I have thoroughly enjoyed for her humour, light touch with romance and quirky characters, is Victoria Clayton. She began her writing career with Out of love, which compared to the novels which followed, is about unrequited love. Her heroines are always beautiful, but not boring. They are often shy or stubborn or naive, and the course of true love is quite tortuous. What makes these novels really entertaining is the additional cast of very eccentric, sometimes loveable, sometimes hateful characters. Her latest is A Girl's guide to kissing frogs, with Marigold, a young ballerina on the brink of career success having to return to her parents in Northumberland to nurse a broken foot. Between her sweet ageing hippy mother, womanising father, handsome lord of the manor, assorted tinkers, village characters, and a mysterious German bussinesman who is renovating a romantic old house, the relationships take many unexpected twists and turns. If you like to read in correct sequence, you need to begin with Out of love, as a nice touch is that the heroine from each book appears briefly in the next. However, it won't make any difference to your reading pleasure if you don't follow the sequence. Victoria Clayton has an interesting, chatty web site at http://www.claytons.demon.co.uk/
----Lesley
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