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…
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…
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…
Librarians Recommend 2020
It's a new year and we've been looking back on all the books we read in 2020. With online literature festivals (including Richmond LitFest), a huge September-October publishing boom, a…
Favourite Books of 2019
It's a new year, and you may have seen all the new reading challenges being shared by people keen to read more in 2020. People are aiming to read 10,…