Housing drop-in sessions and playwriting at Wrexham Libraries

Joanna Hughes, the Financial Inclusion Officer and a Housing Officer from Plas Madoc Estate Office, will be holding a drop-in session for tenants of Wrexham County Borough Council on the last Tuesday of every month, between 2pm-5pm at Chirk library. The first session will be on September 27, 2022. She can help you with your bills/debt, refer you onto specialist agencies, rent arrears and sustaining your tenancy, applying for grants, benefit maximisation and benefit calculations, Universal Credit/benefit queries and benefit applications, foodbank, signposting to Communities for Work if you are interested in getting back to work and housing queries.

Online Catalogue

Did you know you can access our catalogue from your PC, tablet or phone? If you have a book you'd like to read and can't get to the library during opening hours you can search and reserve a copy online. Visit our website www.wrexham.gov.uk/library and follow the online services link.

Playwriting at Wrexham Library

Ever thought of writing a play? Local playwright Peter Read will be running an eight-week playwriting course at Wrexham Library, starting on Friday, October, 10am-noon. The course will offer you the chance to have a go at writing different aspects of a play and will help with how to market your play. It will cost £40 for eight sessions (£5 a session). For more details please contact Peter Read directly on: petersamread@gmail.com

Carers' Collection

Every Library in Wrexham has a collection of books to help carers access information about their caring role. The Carers' Collection has been established to help those who look after and support loved ones at home on an unpaid basis. Titles in the collection cover topics ranging from autism and dementia to carers' rights and the law and benefits and the emotional aspects of being a full time carer. There are also books containing advice on caring for children or adults with specific conditions, and looking after yourself as a carer, plus some of the books have been written by carers themselves who share their own experiences. For a full list of the titles visit: https://bit.ly/2SJJeJ3

Books can also be loaned from the mobile library and the Homelink service. For further information on the Carers' Collection, please contact Wrexham Library on 01978 292090.

Author of the Month 

Titles by Wrexham Libraries Author of the Month, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor and her mother was the first female Registrar. She studied medicine for a year at Nsukka and then left for the US at the age of 19 to continue her education on a different path. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science. She has a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Arts degree in African History from Yale University and many honorary degree's, fellowships and awards. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Orange Prize. Her 2013 novel Americanah won the US National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013. Her most recent work, Notes On Grief, an essay about losing her father, has just been published. She was named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015. In 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders. She is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ms Adichie divides her time between the United States and Nigeria, where she leads an annual creative writing workshop. Ms. Adichie's work has been translated into more than 30 languages.

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The Magic Faraway Tree - A New Adventure gan Jacqueline Wilson (Wedi'i Ysbrydoli gan Enid Blyton)

The Magic Faraway Tree - A New Adventure gan Jacqueline Wilson

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