“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 …
Category: Books
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 …
New books – commencing 12th Feb 2024
New books – commencing 12th Feb 2024 Therapeutic Communication in Mental Health Nursing Aesthetic and Metaphoric Processes in the Engagement With Challenging Patients Shira Birnbaum Publisher’s Synopsis Awarded first place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Psychiatric Read More …
New books at GEH week commencing – 29th Jan 2024
We have a few new books this week. All available to borrow now from our GEH Library. An Adult With an Autism Diagnosis A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed by Gillan Drew The effect of autism on social skills is Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group’s book reviews and recommendations
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 …
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 …
Book Review of The Trial by Rob Rinder
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 …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group review of The Ecliptic by Benjamin Wood
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 …
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 …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group review of Frostquake by Juliet Nicolson
On Boxing Day 1962, when Juliet Nicolson was eight years old, the snow began to fall. It did not stop for ten weeks. The threat of nuclear war had reached its terrifying height with the recent Cuban Missile Crisis, unemployment Read More …