August bank holiday closure

 All the Libraries will be unstaffed on Monday the 29th of August for the bank holiday.

24 hour access will be available as usual to registered members via our swipe card system at the Richmond Library.

The Berrywood and Isebrook Libraries will be closed over the bank holiday.

We reopen as normal on Tuesday the 30th at all of our sites.

Our leisure reading collections are on the move

The Library has a great collection of leisure reading titles, both fiction and non-fiction, covering a broad
variety of topics and genres.

We have moved a large selection of the stock between the different libraries to enable everyone to access a different set of titles at each of the sites.

Of course, you can find all our leisure titles on the library catalogue, but sometimes browsing is more satisfying and this gives all our users the chance to peruse a different set of books.

With the summer here, it is the perfect opportunity for you to find a great read you can enjoy in the sunshine... 

NHFT virtual book club - our next read is The Death of Vivek Oji

After solving a murder mystery at The Sanitorium in the Swiss Alps, we are now going to visit Nigeria in the critically lauded The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi (author of the excellent Freshwater).

One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body stretched out on the veranda, swaddled in akwete material, his head on her welcome mat.

What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious.

The Death of Vivek Oji transports us to the day of Vivek's birth, the day his grandmother Ahunna died. It is the story of an over protective mother and a distant father, and the heart-wrenching tale of one family's struggle to understand their child, just as Vivek learns to recognize himself.

“A robust literary triumph. . . . A sensitively drawn, achingly beautiful portrayal of the boundaries of personal, gender and societal identities.”  - Chicago Review of Books 

“Emezi has a gift for prose that is often as visceral, tender and heart-breaking as what it describes. . . . While the novel sets out to solve the mystery of Oji’s death, what gives it power is how it uncovers the story of a person shielded by the peace of self-acceptance against the pain of the world. Here is proof of what good fiction does best: it is an antidote to invisibility.”  - The Guardian

The next meeting will be Thursday the 8th of September 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.

Libraries unstaffed 11th August

The library team are having an away day on the 11th of August and all the libraries will be unstaffed for the day.

The Richmond Library will be accessible to registered members via our swipe card system, but the libraries at Berrywood and Isebrook will be closed.

We reopen as normal on the Friday the 12th.

Apologies for an inconvenience.