​CONGRATULATIONS TO ANNABELLE RANCOURT WHO WAS THE LUCKY WINNER OF OUR CHRISTMAS SPECIAL EVENT. ANNABELLE WILL RECEIVE A £10.00 BOOK TOKEN


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WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO WISH ANNABELLE A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANNABELLE WILL BE 10 ON THE 7th JANUARY
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Just a few new releases for the New Year which will be available very soon.
Many more available to preview at https://www.goodreads.com
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Golden Child
by
Claire Adam (Goodreads Author)


A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.
When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already, and who he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul's fate, his world shatters--leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.
Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.
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Golden Child
by
Claire Adam (Goodreads Author)


A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.
When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already, and who he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul's fate, his world shatters--leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.
Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.
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Golden Child
by
Claire Adam (Goodreads Author)


A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love
Rural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.
When Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already, and who he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul's fate, his world shatters--leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.
Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, Golden Child is both beautiful and unsettling; a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.
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Stalbridge Community Library has been running very successfully for five years and is now in need of new volunteers to help run both The Library Management Group and The Friends of Stalbridge Library
The Management Group meet every two months   and The Friends Group every three months with meetings lasting a maximum of two hours
Do you think you can bring some fresh ideas and maybe some particular skills to help run our Community Library and take it forward, if so please contact Margaret Jackson by either e-mail or telephone for an informal chat
magsstalbridge@btinternet.com
01963 362038   
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Last Tuesday night’s Author talk produced not one author but two. Between them, Tony Benge and Sue Ashby have written many plays for the stage, radio and television, and have a long track record of devising scripts for television soaps.
Their talk was a highly entertaining canter through their previous collaborations and a detailed look at their current project, which is a play to commemorate the end of the Great War and how the controversial National Peace day of 1919 affected people in Sturminster Newton. The play is entitled “Rage, Tears and Cider”. Tony and Sue took us through the detailed process of research, character development (there are many real people from Sturminster’s history in the piece  - we were shown photographs of some of them), plot construction and dialogue-shaping before any actual writing happens. They also described how random pieces of unexpected information can be used to heighten the drama, enrich the characterisation or solve plot difficulties.  And then the writing and seemingly endless rewriting,  to create the finished piece of work.
The process was illustrated by scenes from the play, acted out by members of the cast and their director Craig White. There were moving exchanges between complex characters, together with hilarious and colourful dialogue from all-too-real individuals, everything combining to move the drama along and keep the audience informed, engaged and amused. If the rest of the play matches these brief trailers, the two performances on Saturday 10th November at the Exchange  Sturminster Newton deserve to be sold out.
A question and answer session followed Tony and Sue’s talk, providing a suitable close to a very enjoyable evening.
Hurry and get your tickets for Rage, Tears and Cider before they all sell out
 
The Library Management Group and Friends of Stalbridge Library would like to thank everyone who supported the evening
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Come and visit your local library here in Stalbridge where as well as having access to over 3 million book titles, CD's, DVD's Talking books and access to computer systems you will now be able to purchase these very elegant Book Bags, available in blue or red at just £2.50 each
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​Do you have three hours to spare every two weeks?
Do you enjoy reading and books?

Then we have a space for you as a volunteer at Stalbridge Community Library.
We are a happy group who work hard to keep the Library open for Stalbridge and surrounding villages.
Please contact Christine Peters for further details  christineannpeters7@icloud.com