Wirral Book Fest - John Siddique and Holly Green

On Tuesday 8th April: 2-3.30pm West Kirby library hosted "The best words" from John Siddique and Wirral’s Young Poet Laureate, Holly Green. Acclaimed poet John Siddique shared his favourite poems and some of his own gems,supported by Holly Green.

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Paul Irons introduces the two poets, Holly Green and John Siddique.

Holly Green, Wirral's Young Poet Laureate.

John chats to the official photographer.

Holly responds to the audience.

Holly reading a favourite poem.

The audience

John sharing a poem that means so much to him.

John and Holly take questions from the audience.

More questions...

The audience listen to a final poem.

John Siddique

Wirral Book Fest April 8th - Playaways Launch

Our second Book Fest event was the official launch of "Playaways", the new, MP3-style audio book. We were joined by Maggie Mash, who gave a reading and a talk on her work as a narrator of talking books.

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Playaways are now available to borrow from West Kirby Library. Use your own headphones or purchase a pair from us for £1.



Maggie Mash trained as an actress and worked in the professional theatre before starting her broadcasting career in Forces Radio. Later branching into voice-over work, Maggie now records audiobooks and provides the voice for such things as airlines’ in-flight videos and the national mental arithmetic SATS tests. Her voice is perhaps best-known for the years in which she was continuity announcer at Yorkshire Television.

Wirral Libraries Book Fest - April 7th

Riverside Writers started off the Wirral Book Fest with a session called "Words from wordsmiths" - an entertaining evening of great writing.

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Wirral Bookfest Events at West Kirby Library

Monday 7th April: 7-9pm Words from Wordsmiths: Horror, humour and beauty—diverse readings of original fiction by members of Riverside Writers.

Tuesday 8th April: 10am-12noon Have your heard a good book lately?
Publishers W.H. Howes interactive display and demo of the talking book from cassettes to ‘Playaways’ - pre loaded digital books. Ideal for visually impaired book lovers.

Tuesday 8th April: 2-3.30pm The best words—John Siddique and Wirral’s Young Poet Laureate. Acclaimed poet John Siddique shares his favourite poems and some of his own gems. Supported by Wirral’s Young Poet Laureate, Holly Green.

All events are FREE.

Click HERE for a full programme of Wirral-wide BookFest Events.

Library Elf

Wirral Libraries - Library Elf Would you like to be reminded when your library books are due back?
We know our customers lead busy lives and sometimes it is difficult to keep track of when library books and due back. With this in mind we have discovered Library Elf - an excellent free service that will send you emails reminding you return or renew your books before the date they are actually due back. With Library Elf, you can:

Receive email notices of items before they become due
View the due dates of
various items in a calendar format
Be notified of reservations as they become available
Consolidate your library accounts or those of your entire family
..and much more!

Library Elf - How does it work?

Library Elf is a third party web-based service which helps library users keep track of their loans and hopefully avoid them becoming overdue. When you sign up for the free service, you can tell Elf to send you email reminders before the items you have on loan reach their due date, or when they actually hit the date. It’s up to you how many reminders you receive and how far in advance of the due date they should start arriving.

Sign up for Library Elf - click HERE to go to the Library Elf website OR
go to Wirral Libraries website and scroll down to the Library Elf logo and follow the “Sign Up” link from the home page and fill in the details required. You will find Wirral shown in the “List of Libraries” under the “International” heading among the UK listings.
NOTE: When entering your library card number, LEAVE OFF the initial 'B' and just enter the last eight digits.

Disclaimer Please note: Library Elf is a third party service which is independently run and not affiliated in any way with Wirral Libraries or any other library service. Wirral Libraries makes no guarantee about the nature, efficiency or availability of Library Elf and we cannot be held responsible for any failings of the service. We describe the service above in good faith as an option, which is available to Wirral Library users. But we remind our customers that Wirral Library members remain responsible for items borrowed on their library cards and will be liable for any fines or other charges which may accrue, irrespective of any alerts which Library Elf may or may not provide.