Doors Open at 2.30, Event Starts at 3.00 Tickets £7/£5 Book Here Marsden Yorkshire Day/Friends of Marsden Library and Huddersfield Literature Festival presents an unmissable talk by a powerful and refreshing new voice in nature writing. After a race-hate crime, which left her with panic attacks and anxiety, Anita Sethi longed for wide-open spaces. In […]
180 million years of history in just one evening - how Northern England's people have shaped Britain and the world! Join Brian Groom, author of the bestelling 'Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day', who will read passages covering 180 million years of history. He will explain how northern England's people […]
Give the gift of Marsden this Christmas! The Friends of Marsden Library's Marsden 2023 Calendar is Now On Sale. Available from outlets around Marsden and Slawit or online from Marsden Mechanics. Online orders can be sent to an address of your choice, p&p is £1.65 per calendar (UK - International prices can be advised). Buy […]
Join us for an evening with local crime fiction author, Dave Rigby, for the latest from his Harry Vos series, plus an introduction to his new creation, DI 'Mac' Larsen. Dave will talk about his two new books, ‘End of the Line’ and ‘Mac’. ‘End of the Line’ is the third book in the Harry Vos, […]
Join us for an evening with graphic novelist Jamie Rhodes. Jamie will read an extract from his graphic novel, "A Castle in England" and tell us about the project that inspired it, in which he spent 4 months living in a National Trust castle creating stories inspired by the objects and documents in its […]
Friends of Marsden Library has partnered once again with Huddersfield Literature Festival to bring HLF to the Colne Valley. This year, we are offering you an unmissable event with one of our best-loved Yorkshire writers, Milly Johnson – a bestselling novelist who is much in demand as an after-dinner speaker and professional joke writer. Milly’s […]
Marsden Calendar Competition Awaits Your Entries! Open to all Pictures that capture the spirit of Marsden and the Colne Valley Minimum image size 1MB Horizontal orientation Enter Online until 30 June
Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? (or, ideally, 40: maximum capacity in Marsden Library!) We’re delighted to have Robin back again this year to talk about the book that came out of his 2021 tour, Bibliomaniac. Packed with witty anecdotes and tall tales, Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey […]