Little Book Stop, Wigan Road - Atherton

Little Book Stop, Wigan Road - Atherton Penguin have installed 90 Little Book Stops across the UK to celebrate their 90th birthday - with our very own in Atherton!

A free community library with a "Bring one, take one" ethos, number 560 Wigan Road is looked after by volunteer stewards 📚

The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testament's, launched on Disney+ yesterday! To celebrate we have a copy of Margar...
09/04/2026

The sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testament's, launched on Disney+ yesterday! To celebrate we have a copy of Margaret Atwoods 2019 hit land in the book stop today - with a special note from the author! Get it whilst it's still around 👀

Under His Eye

📍560 Wigan Road
📚 Open 24/7

All ready for the long weekend over at the book stop 👀 and we've had some eggtra special gifts dropped off from a book s...
03/04/2026

All ready for the long weekend over at the book stop 👀 and we've had some eggtra special gifts dropped off from a book stop regular ♥️

Open all weekend with new stock arriving all the time - No two visits are ever the same!

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📍560 Wigan Road, M46

05/03/2026

Hope everyone has had a fabulous world book day!
Don't forget, the Little Book Stop is open 24/7 ⌚📚 NEW book drop this weekend 👀🎉

📍560 Wigan Road

27/02/2026

It’s **Thriller Weekend** at our Little Book Stop! 🔎📚

Get ready for heart-pounding suspense, shocking twists, and stories that will keep you up way past bedtime. We’ve stocked the shelf with chilling reads from masters of suspense like Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and James Patterson—plus plenty of hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

We have a huge stock pile of edge-of-your-seat reads, keeping the book stop well stocked all weekend.
So stop by, grab a thriller (or two!), and lose yourself in a story full of mystery and suspense.

As always, our junior and young reader shelf will be fully stocked too 🎊📚

See you at the book stop 🎉

📍560 Wigan Road, M46 0GA

Hope everyone is having a restful weekend!We've had a young readers restock at the book stop - everything from Disney cl...
01/02/2026

Hope everyone is having a restful weekend!
We've had a young readers restock at the book stop - everything from Disney classics to a very special hardback copy of The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse 📚🥰🐴

📍You can find us at 560 Wigan Road - open to all!

27/01/2026

🎉📚 National Storytelling Week 2026 is almost here! 📚🎉
Wigan Borough Libraries are celebrating with a Storytelling Marathon — and you’re invited!

✨ Join us for FREE, drop in storytelling sessions across the borough. No booking needed, just come along and enjoy!

📚Storytelling Session Details:

📍Ashton Library
📅Tuesday 3rd February
⌚10am
📖Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson

📍Atherton Library
📅Wednesday 4th February
⌚12:30pm
📖Jungle Themed Storytime, Craft & Fun

📍Golborne Library
📅Monday 2nd February
⌚9:30am
📖The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s Ocean Hide and Seek

📍Hindley library & Community Centre
📅Monday 2nd February
⌚10am
📖Dear Zoo & Cut n Stick Crafts

📍Lamberhead Green Library
📅Monday 2nd February
⌚11am
📖Stay N Play Storytime

📍Lamberhead Green Library
📅Friday 6th February
⌚1pm
📖Play Pals Storytime

📍Marsh Green Library
📅Wednesday 4th February
⌚12pm
📖Teddy Bear’s Picnic - We’re Going On A Bear Hunt

📍Shevington Library
📅Monday 2nd February
⌚10am
📖Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale & Fun Crafts

📍Standish Library
📅Saturday 7th February
⌚10am
📖Storytime - Be Normal by Ged Adamson

📍Tyldesley Library
📅Wednesday 4th February
⌚10am
📖Playgroup - The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Crafts

📍Wigan Library
📅Friday 6th February
⌚10am
📖Room on the Broom & Crafts

Come along, get comfy, and let the stories begin… 🌟

📖 We’ll also be welcoming amazing authors into our libraries throughout the week for special class visits — inspiring the next generation of readers and storytellers!

Merry Christmas from your Little Book Stop! Hope everyone got some great new reads in their stocking's. We're a little l...
26/12/2025

Merry Christmas from your Little Book Stop! Hope everyone got some great new reads in their stocking's. We're a little late posting this due to the newest arrival in the steward household 🍼🫩😴 but Penguin have kindly sent some new books for the book stop 🎉

Including the newly released Wings: Story Of A Band On The Run by Paul McCartney - A landmark account of McCartney’s triumphant musical reinvention in the 1970s and the rise of one of the decade’s most iconic bands.

Some of the shops may be closed but the book stop is always open! 📚

📚 NEW RELEASES 📚Ian McEwan's What We Can Know has been shortlisted for the shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Fiction ...
09/12/2025

📚 NEW RELEASES 📚

Ian McEwan's What We Can Know has been shortlisted for the shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards Fiction Award 2025 🎉 The novel is set almost a century in the future, in 2119, in a UK partially submerged by rising seas, and is centred on Tom Metcalfe, an academic who is investigating a lost poem, read aloud at a party in 2014.

When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything In Between by Ruth Jones and James Corden was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller 🎉 A personal favorite of ours, Ruth and James tell the full extraordinary story of how they turned their little show into a full-on cultural phenomenon.

AND WE HAVE COPIES OF BOTH IN OUR LITTLE BOOK STOP.

Come down to 560 Wigan Road; the weather might be crappy but our book selection is anything but!

We're back! 🎉Restocked, weather-proofed and with some special gifts for (re)launch weekend. 📍560 Wigan Road 📚
08/11/2025

We're back! 🎉
Restocked, weather-proofed and with some special gifts for (re)launch weekend.
📍560 Wigan Road 📚

Our little book stop took a break, for a new roof and it's own sake! The paint is fresh, the wood is sound, the best boo...
07/11/2025

Our little book stop took a break, for a new roof and it's own sake! The paint is fresh, the wood is sound, the best book swap in all the town. Its cozy and weatherproofed now, you see, ready for readers - come and see. Pick a title, drop one in, let the joyful reading begin!

21/09/2025

Unfortunately our little library has taken a bit of a battering in the wet weather, so it needs a bit of TLC.
Penguin are going to collect it to give it a weatherproofing treatment and make it more suitable for our delightful weather!

We've removed the books for now so that they don't get ruined.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our little book stop so far. We'll absolutely be back, better than before!

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Wigan Road
Atherton
M460GA

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