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 …
Category: Wellbeing
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 …
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 …
Joint SWFT and GEH Wellbeing read: Lioness by Emily Perkins
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …