Christmas opening at the libraries

All of the libraries will be open up to Friday the 24th of December. 

Berrywood Hospital Library will be staffed from Wednesday the 29th until Friday the 31st of December as usual, and then will reopen on Tuesday the 4th of January.

Isebrook Hospital Library will be closed after Friday the 24th of December for the Christmas period and will reopen on Tuesday the 4th of January. Please contact one of the other libraries if you require any help during this period.

The Richmond Library at Northampton General Hospital will be staffed from Wednesday the 29th until Friday the 31st of December as usual, and then will reopen on Tuesday the 4th of January.

24 hour access will be available to registered users as normal throughout the Christmas period at the Richmond library.

We would like to wish you a very happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year. We look forward to seeing you in what we hope will be a better 2022.

Online membership form out of action for essential maintenance 17th - 20th December

The Trust is undertaking some essential maintenance on its web site from Friday 17th of December until noon (ish) on Monday the 20th.

This means that our online membership form for registration will not be available during this time. 

If you wish to join the library during one of these times please contact one of the library sites for information.

Apologies for the disruption.

NHFT virtual book club - our next read is The Bees

Following our encounter with PT Barnum in 19th century New York in The Mermaid we are going somewhere completely different for our first read of 2022, a bee hive, in The Bees by Laline Paull

Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen.

But Flora is not like other bees… 🐝

Shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction, and winner of the Orion Book Award, The Bees is a thriller based on real honey bee biology. 

“Few novels create such a singular reading experience. The buzz you will hear surrounding this book and its astonishing author is utterly deserved.” The New York Times.

The next meeting will be Thursday the 13th of January 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.