The Current 2018 – Quality reads for older teens
Coming soon to a library near you, The Current 2018, the annual booklist produced by Richmond Libraries aimed at the 15+ age-group. It is designed to highlight the best new fiction…
Local authors team up at Richmond Literature Festival
Reading is our passion here in Richmond upon Thames Libraries and our mission is to get more people reading. We aim to provide you with not only inspiring things to…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
With new Harry Potter films and a Hocus Pocus remake in the works, the occult seems as popular as ever. But before Twilight and American Horror Story became cultural touchstones,…
Cover Story 2017-2018: The best in teen fiction
Once again librarians from our Reading and Learning Teams have been busy promoting Cover Story our annual pick of the most exciting teen fiction reads published throughout the last year. Our…
What’s hot? The most in-demand books of 2017
In 2013 with the introduction of a new library management system, Spydus, the reservations service was reinvented as a click-and-collect process to rival that of any commercial organisation. We can now…
Are you a Book Groupie?
In the rather anonymous building next door to Richmond Library there is a dimly-lit room full of rolling book stacks. On these shelves lives a collection of more than 150…
Jane Austen: Behind the Bonnets
Many will have seen the films and luscious TV adaptations of Austen's works - beautiful costumes, affluent country houses, the carriages. And at the centre of it all, an attractive…
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: 20th Anniversary
Just in case you didn't know ..... Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, written by Rowling, was published twenty years ago on 26 June 1997 and fans across the globe…
Cityread: London 1583 – Spies. Suspicion. Murder.
As another fantastic Cityread London festival draws to a close we are tired but triumphant here in Richmond upon Thames Library Services. We have put on 11 successful Elizabethan themed…
Books Are Good For Your Health!
Reading Well is a partnership of Libraries, the Reading Agency and the Wellcome Trust. It is intended to promote the benefits of reading for health and wellbeing and has two…