BOLTON bookworms have been busy reading everything from Where’s Wally to the Highway Code this year, but which books have been the most regularly rented from the boroughs libraries? We asked Bolton Council, which runs the town’s 10 libraries, which books and DVDs were most popular with visitors in 2014.

Top of the pile is thriller writer Lee Child’s novel, Never go Back, part of his Jack Reacher series, which was the most regularly rented at three separate libraries in Farnworth, Harwood and Westhoughton.

Horwich’s readers went for a slightly more comical choice, with Martin Handford’s Where’s Wally book being checked out 48 times.

There was a similarly light-hearted victor at the High Street Library in Great Lever, which saw Francesca Simon’s children’s tale Horrid Henry’s Nits become the most popular read with 38 people choosing to borrow it.

At Bolton’s flagship town centre library in Le Mans Crescent, aspiring drivers steered the Official Highway Code to the top of the most-rented list with 55 rentals whereas Little Lever readers preferred a tense thriller in the shape of The Witness by Nora Roberts, which was borrowed 33 times.

The fashion-conscious folk in Breightmet rented First Sight by Danielle Steele, which tells the story of a style-guru 31 times while Ann Cleeves’ murder-mystery topped the charts in Blackrod with 20 rentals.

It would appear that children rule the roost in Bromley Cross with the most popular book I Want to be a Cavegirl by Tony Ross, which was checked out 23 times.

The most well-read author throughout the borough was Daisy Meadows which is actually a collective pseudonym for a number of ghostwriters who create the Rainbow Magic children’s fiction brand — their work was rented 3,374 times in 2014.

When it came to films, it was Hollywood blockbusters that topped the pile for Bolton film buffs.

The most rented DVD from the borough’s libraries was the Tom Hanks thriller Captain Phillips which recounts the true-story of a ship’s hijacking by Somali pirates.

In second place was Space-based spectacle Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, which was checked out 62 times.

British film Philomena, starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan came in third place with 56 rentals.