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  • Half Moon Books Poetry Showcase and Launch for National Poetry Day

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    We're continuing our collaboration with The Poetry Village to bring you a very special evening of poetry to celebrate this year's Poetry Day. Direct from the poetry town of Otley, we will be showcasing some of the most exciting new poetry published by local community interest company, Half Moon Press. The event will be hosted […]

    £2
  • Building your Family Tree on Ancestry.co.uk

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Volunteers Hazel Seidel and Marian Casler are running a workshop using the Library computers for anyone wanting to get started researching their family tree. Research into your family history is fascinating and rewarding, and the advent of the internet has made lots of key records easily accessible from home - come along to this free […]

  • Volunteers Celebration and Information Meeting

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    If you are interested in finding out more about volunteering in the Library, or can offer clubs or activities based on your hobbies, such as scrabble, or coding, please come along to the Volunteer Celebration to find out how to get involved.

  • Author Night: Crime Fiction, Flash Fiction, Short Stories

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Northern Writers Reading presents ... Dave Rigby and Amanda Huggins Wednesday 28th November Doors at 7pm, 7.30 - 8.30 Marsden Library Free entry, suggested donation £2 to cover room hire Refreshments available.

  • Poetry Village Live, NWR: An Evening with Gaia Holmes and Tom Weir

    Continuing our collaboration with Poetry Village we are delighted to welcome two of our most acclaimed contemporary poets to Marsden as part of the Northern Writers series. Both Gaia and Tom will be celebrating the launch of new titles at this festive event. Join us for a wonderful evening of poetry in Marsden's wonderful library […]

  • Author Event: An Evening with Sarah Hussain

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    Sarah Hussain is a Huddersfield based author and educator. Her first novel ‘Escaped from Syria’ was a winner finalist in the People’s Book Prize Award and her short story collection ‘Sit up, Stand up, Speak up’ was released in 2017. In 2018 she won the Ms Shakespeare competition in Yorkshire and was commissioned to write […]

  • Author Talk, Reading and Book Signing – John Ling

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    John Ling is a former children’s librarian, then teacher of deaf kids, and later, autistic kids. Now he is a mediator for special needs families, and facilitator for Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP).Always a writer and poet. “I could smell them and hear them long before I could see them. Soon the grove was filled […]

  • Matt Abbott, Two Little Ducks

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    https://youtu.be/Snlh5iWZhtI

    £6
  • Julian Norton: The Yorkshire Vet

    Marsden Mechanics, Upstairs Peel Street, Marsden

    Known across the UK from the popular Channel 5 series The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton talks about the drama and humour of his experiences as a rural vet, first at James Herriot’s old practice in Thirsk and now in the market town of Boroughbridge. His new book The Diary of a Yorkshire Vet, features many entertaining stories about […]

    £3 – £5
  • Author Event: D. R. Dixon Reading from Wired Thoughts

    Marsden Library Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

    D. R. Dixon doesn’t know how he got to where he is now as actually his biggest interest was music. He thinks he must have made a wrong turn somewhere but as it is he is very happy that he did; he says it’s not until he started writing that he really found out about […]