Knowledge and Library Services
for George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
“Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in presenting to the Warneford Hospital, for the use of the Medical Officers of the Institution for the time being, Quain and Wilson’s Coloured Anatomical Plates in Two Volumes Folio…” We’re thrilled to finally unveil Read More …
The joint Wellbeing Reading Group book choice for Pride Month turned out to be a bit of a Marmite book, with some of the group absolutely loving it, and some definitely not! The novel was a fictionalised account of the Read More …
Rupi Kaur is a New York Times Bestselling author, and has been described as a literary phenomenon. The Sun and Her Flowers is the second of her self published, self illustrated poetry collections. Her collections have sold over 11 million Read More …
After an astonishing career of more than thirty years’ service, colleagues from Warwick Hospital and beyond bid a fond farewell to librarian Nick Harden on Thursday 25th April. Both the NHS and libraries have seen profound changes since Nick started Read More …
This month’s read was a “cli-fi” novel by Jessie Greengrass. Set in the near future, it centred around the lives of Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy in the ark-like High House. This is a bleak dystopian future when floods have Read More …
The March book choice for SWFT was a bit of a change from our usual fare. Marple is a collection of short stories by 12 different authors, with the central figure of Agatha Christie‘s Miss Marple linking the tales. Miss Read More …
“Some men fight for glory. Others fight for coin. The Essex Dogs? They fight for each other.” Our book group choice for February was Dan Jones’s Essex Dogs. This is his debut historical novel, and the first of a trilogy. Read More …
This wasn’t technically a Christmas present, but it was something one of our readers acquired in December. It is the story of three characters, Opaline, Martha, and Henry and how their lives are tangled up in the secrets of a Read More …
The Education Centre Library were recently given a copy of The Trial by Rob Rinder to give an honest review and add to our Leisure collection. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve probably either heard of, or seen Read More …
Our book choice for December was The Ecliptic, a novel which was shortlisted for the Encore Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The book blurb looked interesting, setting the scene of an artists colony off the coast Read More …