Our favourite books – 2023 edition!
Once again, we asked the library staff to share their favourite books of 2023 and compiled them for you in a list! It is as usual an eclectic record of…
What Richmond read in 2023
Just like that, 2024 is upon us, so let’s take some time to reflect on the literary whirlwind that was 2023, and revisit your favourite books of the last twelve…
Richmond Reads – the Season of Stories
You may have seen Richmond Reads on posters in our libraries or on our website, but what is Richmond Reads? In this blog post we'll explain what it is, when…
International Women’s Day recommendations
March 8 marks International Women's Day, a global celebration of social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. To celebrate it, we asked our library staff to choose their favourite…
What we read in 2022
Welcome back to our annual round up of recommended reads for the year. We asked staff across the library service for their top 3 titles of 2022 and here's what…
What do libraries mean to you? Part 2
It’s Libraries Week and to celebrate we asked local authors to share their love of libraries. Today it's the turn of Mary Chamberlain, novelist and historian, author of the international…
Celebrating Pride month: The LGBTQ+ books that inspired us
This year we asked our readers to tell us all about the LGBTQ+ books that inspired them. From fiction to true tales and spanning the ages, the list is wide…
Librarians Best of 2021
Once again we've made it to a fresh new year, and for our librarians that can only mean one thing: time to look back on all the great books we…
Why do I need the library?
Do you use your library? While we have plenty of dedicated users, we know there are people out there who don't think the library is for them. In this post,…
Pulp Fiction: sex sells
Welcome to our new series on pulp fiction - the literature, not the film. To end LGBTQ+ History Month, today we're looking at gay, bisexual, trans, and particularly lesbian pulps.…