The People Development team (of which Knowledge and Library Services are part) spent a happy half hour this morning recommending music and books and films and TV shows to one another. The task was to pick ONE example of a Read More …
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GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review of The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber
Well this was a roaring success! Our packed reading group overwhelmingly enjoyed The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber. Despite some minor concerns about the title (gloves were a very minor part of the novel), our readers were absorbed with the story. Read More …
GEH Wellbeing reading group book review of The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey.
Lots of thumbs ups for this month’s reading group book, The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey. Told by a narrator and also through a diary written by David, one of the main protagonists, in 2015, and poems from Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review of Save me from the waves by Jessica Hepburn
The book our readers dug into this month was an epic one! Save me from the waves is the story of Jessica Hepburn’s journey to the summit of Mount Everest, by way of the entire back catalogue of Desert Island Read More …
GEH Wellbeing reading group book reviews and recommendations 2024 edition!
Our January Reading Group followed our now annual tradition of inviting our readers to tell us about their Christmas reads, the books they gave or received over the festive period, or books they’d like to recommend. Take a look through Read More …
Behold! The spoils of war
The winners of our inaugural KLS staff Christmas quiz were Stephen, Rayanne, Bev and Lisa, also known as the Old Guard. A brilliant game was played by the A Team which consisted of Gavin, Deb, Zoe and Nathan, and the Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review- The White Rock by Anna Hope.
We were kindly gifted copies of The White Rock by Anna Hope by the publishers for our reading group, and we were quite eager to read it. The book starts in 2020 with a minibus of strangers on a pilgrimage Read More …
Book Review- The Poetry Pharmacy Forever!
Thank you to the publisher for sending copies of this Poetry Pharmacy Forever by Willliam Sieghart for our reading group. I really enjoyed the look and feel of this book. The textured, old fashioned cover gives it weight and a Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review of The dark circle by Linda Grant
Our September read at George Eliot was The Dark Circle by Linda Grant. Written in 2016 and shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, it’s set in the 1950s and tells the story of teenage twins Lenny and Miriam. The Read More …
GEH Wellbeing reading group review of What July Knew by Emily Koch
We’d saved What July Knew by Emily Koch to read in July with our wellbeing reading group. Purely because of the name! Our readers enjoyed this book for the most part. There were some parts that were difficult to read, Read More …