The 25th July saw the Library’s bring and buy plant stall with all proceeds going to the hospital’s gardens. It all started when another health library in our consortium put a request in for all of our four gardening books. Querying Read More …
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GEH Kindness book giveaway
The Wellbeing Reading Team at George Eliot were thrilled to receive some books from a publisher, and decided the time was right for a kindness giveaway. We asked our fantastic colleagues at GEH to nominate a member of staff who 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 …
Team Insights training
For the first time on Thursday 8th June, the joint Knowledge and Library Service met for training together at the Eliot Park Innovation Centre. It was very useful for our whole team to meet, as we are normally based on Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review of The Good People by Hannah Kent
This month’s GEH reading group meeting was full to the brim with discussion, opinions, emotions and history! We read The Good People by Hannah Kent, and as ever with our group, it evoked a mixed reaction from our readers. The Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review- A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
“An absolute banger of a book!” – Katie What more can I add to Katie’s review? Well let’s start with a synopsis of the book. In 1934 Christiane Ritter, an Austrian artist, joins her husband, an explorer and hunter, in 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 …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review- Bridge of Clay
As the person writing this review I have a preference to declare. Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak is my favourite of all the books we’ve read at our reading group. Which is a big statement considering we’ve been running Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – Olive, Mabel & Me : Life and adventures with Two Very Good Dogs by Andrew Cotter
What did you do during Lockdown? Andrew Cotter, a well-known sports commentator whose voice is recognised by people across the world, decided on the spur of the moment to narrate a video he took of his two dogs eating, and Read More …