AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2020: Blue is the Warmest Colour by Julie Maroh

Originally published in French as Le Blue est Une Couleur Chaude, this graphic novel by Julie Maroh focuses on the lives of two young women in the late 1990s. It incorporates those typical coming-of-age, teenage concerns such as school, exams, parental (dis)approval and love. Clementine, a young girl in high school, finds herself inexplicably drawn […]

JUNE/JULY 2020: BLACK BY Kwanza Osajyefo

Black plays with history, both its relevance and its erasure. A collaborative effort between creator and writer Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith 3, Jamal Igle, Khary Randolph and Sarah Litt, Black is a Kickstarter success story and is now available on Amazon and ComiXology. Black’s premise starts with: what if only Black people had super-heroic abilities? […]

QUARANTINE Reads

During the Covid-19 pandemic the library staff are all busying themselves at home with supporting all of our users, but without our collective hours of commute we are also finding more time to read. We have decided to let you know what we have been getting our noses into in the hope to encourage you […]

75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

15th April 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. The Library and colleagues from the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies were due to work together on a project to appropriately recognise the involvement of British troops and nurses in the liberation of the Concentration Camp. Unfortunately, this important communal project seemed […]

Easter Lock down Reads

Make this Easter lock down an opportunity to get into some relaxing reading. From short books to epics, classics to childrens fiction, there is something for everyone. Below are a list of 15 titles that you can access for free, from our library catalogue and from the newly launched National Emergency Library which has been […]

APRIL/MAY 2020: This One Summer BY Mariko and Jillian Tamaki

Created by cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer is a coming-of-age story focusing on two pre-teens, Rose and Windy, who are vacationing in Awago. The oldest of the two, Rose, narrates the turbulent events of the summer while she feels caught between the ‘childish’ games she and Windy liked to play in the […]

LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH 2020

For LGBT+ History Month 2020 we have selected some of our library stock which focuses on stories of an LGBT+ perspective. Check them out in this list and for real so you can hold the book in your hand and escape for a bit. It will do you the world of good, we promise! Sister […]

Brokeback mountain (2005)

Directed by Ang Lee 134 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 BRO As it is LGBT+ History Month and Oscar season I felt it was high time that I finally watched Brokeback Mountain, which had been on my to watch list for far too long. Back in 2005, which is depressingly long ago now, this […]

February/March 2020: For the Love of God, Marie! By Jade Sarson

In 2014, an extract from For the Love of God, Marie! by Jade Sarson won the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition. In 2016, the full book finally hit the shelves. A whirlwind about love and sexuality, this novel makes us think about what it means to love and what it means to be family. Marie, […]

The Aviator (2004)

Directed by Martin Scorsese 163 minutes Floor 3 Pink zone 791.4372 AVI Don’t adjust your TV sets the grass really is blue. Well, for the first 50 minutes anyway. The Aviator is a biographical film following the life of John Logan played by, a very young looking, Leonardo DiCaprio. Logan’s name may not be too […]