NHFT virtual book club - our next read is Brother of the More Famous Jack

Following on from our reading of Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris, our next novel for the NHFT virtual book club will be Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapedo.

Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the volatile, stroppy Jonathan and his older, more beautiful brother Roger, who wins her heart. First love quickly leads to heartbreak and sends her fleeing to Rome but, ten years on, she returns to find the Goldmans again.

The next meeting will be Thursday the 12th of August at 7pm via MS Teams where we will be discussing the novel. You can find the link via the Events Calendar on the Staff Room.

Hope to see you there.

Uplifting resources for NHS staff

Heath Education England and the Reading Agency have crowd-sourced a selection of uplifting digital and print resources for NHS staff aimed at boosting your mood.

 The collection includes podcasts, websites, poems and apps.

You can find all the digital resources on the HEE web site.
 

As well as these digital resources, they have also supplied us with copies of 10 print books which we have added to our leisure reading collection.

• Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesey
• Three Things About Elsie by Joanna Cannon
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• The Lido by Libby Page
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
• The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
• Calypso by David Sedaris
• The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
• Happiness FM by Mary Dickins

You can find all the books from our leisure reading collection, both fiction and nonfiction, on our catalogue here.

We hope you enjoy them.