Our July Book Picnic recommendations
Our monthly Book Picnics are a joy. It’s so much fun hearing what other people are reading, and I’m always amazed by how diverse people’s reading choices are. I never fail to come away with new authors...
View ArticleReaders of Colour Recommends
Readers of Colour is a thriving community of women and non-binary folks of colour who meet once a month to discuss literature, film, podcasts and more by women and non-binary creatives of colour. Visit...
View ArticleGreen Learning
We’d like to share with you what has been recently been shaping our thinking about climate justice, carbon reduction and our role in caring for our environment. Guest speakers Nishma Doshi, a Climate...
View ArticleBook Picnic Recommendations-August 2020
Our monthly Zoom meet ups to discuss what we’ve been reading are one of the ways our team of staff and volunteers have stayed connected through lockdown. We always enjoy hearing what others recommend...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘Select and Collect’ book borrowing
Great news! We’ll be lending books again from 2nd September! We’re delighted to be able to start lending books again, with our new ‘Select and Collect’ service, which you can start using from Wednesday...
View ArticleSeptember Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us some valuable...
View ArticleThemes of Isolation in our collection
Emilie was on placement with us in the spring and has just finished writing her dissertation for her MSc in Information and Library Studies at Strathclyde on the language used in “Equality, Diversity,...
View ArticleOctober Book Picnic Recommendations -2020
Happy Libraries Week to all! On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely,...
View ArticleNovember Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us some valuable...
View ArticleBooks about Gardening, Plants, Seeds and Growing
Hello! My name is Holly and I am a volunteer with GWL. I love books and had lots of fun looking through the collection to find books for this list. Hope you check some of them out :) (they will be...
View ArticleBHM: Black Women Writers
October 2020 marked Black History Month, first celebrated in the United Kingdom in 1987, BHM is an annual event to remember celebrate and honour the achievements, culture and history of Black people....
View ArticleDecember Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us some valuable...
View ArticleBest feel-good books: comfort reads you can enjoy over the winter months
It might be cold, dreich and dark outside but there’s plenty to love about winter: the chilly, grey days are the perfect excuse to stay inside and indulge in one of our favourite pastimes, reading. The...
View ArticleJanuary Book Picnic Recommendations
After our holidays some of our volunteers and staff got together online to share what they’d been reading over the festive period: lots of fiction, including for children and young adults, and a...
View ArticleFebruary Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
View ArticleMarch Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
View ArticleUna Donna by Sibilla Aleramo
Our volunteer Joy shares her thoughts on this new translation of Una Donna by Sibilla Aleramo, first published in Italian in 1906. The autobiographical novel Una donna (A Woman) was first published in...
View ArticleFinding Jessie
By our volunteer Anabel Marsh. At the end of 2012, I joined GWL’s Women Make History group as a tour guide. I’ve lost count of the number of walks I’ve helped to lead and have learned about some...
View ArticleApril Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
View ArticleMay Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
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