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 …
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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 …
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 …