NHFT virtual book club meeting #27 - The Poison Artist

After our visit to revolutionary France with Madame Tussaud in Edward Carey's Little, we are moving to a contemporary, fog-shrouded San Francisco in the shape of Jonathan Moore's twisty psychological thriller, The Poison Artist.

Caleb Maddox is a toxicologist who just wants to drown his sorrows after an ugly breakup with his girlfriend

At a bar he meets the beautiful and bewitching Emmeline who has a taste for absinthe but then vanishes into the night.

He must find her.

As his search begins, Caleb becomes entangled in a serial-murder investigation. The police have been fishing men from the bay, and the post-mortems are inconclusive. One of the victims vanished from the bar the night Caleb met Emmeline. When questioned, Caleb can’t offer any information, nor does he tell them he’s been secretly helping the city’s medical examiner, an old friend, study the chemical evidence on the victims’ remains. 

The search for the killer soon entwines with Caleb’s hunt for Emmeline, and the closer he gets to each, the more dangerous his world becomes...

'An electrifying read... I haven't read anything so terrifying since Red Dragon.’ Stephen King

The next meeting will be Thursday the 24th 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.

The NHFT Virtual Book Club - the video!

We were really pleased to be asked to take part in the 2023 Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival to talk about the virtual book club and our love of reading.

You can find more about all the books we have shared on our blog or watch the video on YouTube from the Wellbeing Festival.

Health Information Week - children's health

Today is the last day of the Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival and day 5 of Health Information Week #HIW2023.

Today’s headliner is Gok Wan, who has talked in the past about childhood obesity and bullying. This ties in with the theme for #HIW203 which is Children’s health.

You can access a range of books from the library on various aspects of children’s health, see our catalogue at https://nhft.koha-ptfs.co.uk/

There are also online resources you can access such as:

• Better Health, Healthier Families: https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/
  
  
• Young Minds: https://www.youngminds.org.uk/
  
  
• Action for Children: https://www.actionforchildren.org.uk/
  
  
• Podcasts from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/podcasts      

Health Information Week - mental health and wellbeing

It is Health Information Week #HIW2023 and today is all about mental health and wellbeing, which ties in nicely with the Northamptonshire Virtual Wellbeing Festival which started on Monday.

Do you know how the library can support your mental health and wellbeing?

•  Leisure collection: find your summer reading here! A mix of fiction (including the virtual book club books) and non-fiction books supported by the Northamptonshire Health Charitable Fund.
  
  
• Your Health collection: includes how to reduce stress, menopause management and using nature for wellbeing.
  
  
• Lots of other books on topics such as managing stress, anxiety, overcoming depression, men’s  health, being happy and wellbeing (both clinical and non-clinical).
  
  
• Games: alternatively why not try a game in a team meeting for a fun and different way to learn? Try the Working stress game or the Teams that care game.

 Find all these on the library catalogue https://nhft.koha-ptfs.co.uk/