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 …
Author: Lisa
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 …
GEH Kindness book giveaway
The Wellbeing Reading Team at George Eliot were thrilled to receive some books from a publisher, and decided the time was right for a kindness giveaway. We asked our fantastic colleagues at GEH to nominate a member of staff who Read More …
Team Insights training
For the first time on Thursday 8th June, the joint Knowledge and Library Service met for training together at the Eliot Park Innovation Centre. It was very useful for our whole team to meet, as we are normally based on Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Good People by Hannah Kent
This month’s GEH reading group meeting was full to the brim with discussion, opinions, emotions and history! We read The Good People by Hannah Kent, and as ever with our group, it evoked a mixed reaction from our readers. The Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review- A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
“An absolute banger of a book!” – Katie What more can I add to Katie’s review? Well let’s start with a synopsis of the book. In 1934 Christiane Ritter, an Austrian artist, joins her husband, an explorer and hunter, in Read More …