The joint book group choice for this month was Lioness by Emily Perkins. Described as ‘perfection’ (Glamour magazine), ‘a thoughtful, intelligent novel about one woman’s search for more meaning’ (Good Housekeeping), ‘a coolly ironic look at modern womanhood’ (The Times) Read More …
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Celebrating Clinical Librarians on World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day
Happy World Evidence-Based Healthcare Day everyone from Rayanne and Lisa, your Clinical Librarian Team. This annual event highlights the importance of using the best available research evidence to inform clinical decision making and provide the highest quality patient care. In Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group’s Summer Reads
Summer has sadly come to an end and so we thought we would take the opportunity to find out what our members have been reading over the last couple of months. Whether it was the latest bestseller, a weighty tome Read More …
Library colleagues join the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge for GEH Charity
On Friday, three of us from the library team took part in the gruelling Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to raise funds for the George Eliot Hospital Charity. Rayanne, Zoe and Nathan joined a group of 15 colleagues and friends of Read More …
The Library Life of an Apprehensive Apprentice
What’s up? (Some delightful ceiling tiles; the clock; a fire exit sign… Sorry. Easily distracted.) Hello, I’m Nathan, the library apprentice at SWFT. If you’ve been into the library in the Education Centre at Warwick Hospital in the past year, Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler
Our read this month was The Tobacconist, written by Robert Seethaler in 2014 and recently translated from the German by Charlotte Collins. It is the story of Franz, a teenager from a small village in the Austrian lakes who moves Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
The book choice for July was the fascinating The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. This tale, partly based on real events, follows the fictional Esme Nicholl and the very real creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. So far, Read More …
Health Information Week – spotlight on Children’s Health
Last week was Health Information Week, and one of this year’s themes is Children’s Health. In this post we’ve partnered with Warwickshire Libraries Librarian, Phil, to highlight sources of trustworthy information about children’s health, their safety and wellbeing. Also with Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
where to begin with this experimental, award-winning piece of literature? a kaleidoscopic celebration of diversity with plenty to provoke discussion twelve characters from different generations, with wildly contrasting backgrounds and experiences, whose lives intertwine, converging on the performance of a Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
What have an estate agent, a pair of home renovators, two panicky parents-to-be, a bank manager, and a grandmother all got in common? They are all the accidental hostages of a would be bank robber in Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People, Read More …