Barnsley Libraries Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Join us and children's author @JamesENicol on Saturday 17th July at 10am for a fab online workshop for kids, based on James' fiction series, The Apprentice Witch 😊 This session is free to attend - find out more, including how to book a place, online here https://t.co/vcw59fF36t https://t.co/JZTMio2tuh

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These are our top 3 loans over the last 12 month period, with Richard Osman's 'The Thursday Murder Club' being checked out a whopping 148 times! Are you one of the people who's borrowed one of these titles? Would you recommend it? https://t.co/K6DV4LGtMX

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Plenty of novels are getting the TV treatment in 2022. Among those to look forward to is the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends. Channel 4 will screen Queenie by Candice Carty Williams & Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam will be dramatised on Netflix. https://t.co/V9karANEdM

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Caroline from the Lightbox has chosen ‘The Library at Mount Char’ by Scott Hawkins for #WorldBookNight: “This is definitely a book that is hard to describe. It’s part thriller, part fantasy, darkly comic & exciting from the start. Not one for the faint-hearted" https://t.co/LH5CeZUFbq

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Things Fall Apart is considered one of the greatest African novels of all time. Its Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was born on this day in 1930. He has been a huge influence on those who have followed. We also hold copies of his other novels: Man of the People & No Longer at Ease. https://t.co/o93RHSaZKO

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We're part of the Big Read! Join us at Dodworth Library on Monday 26 June at 3pm to hear Reader in Residence Luca Veste discuss Ann Cleeves' The Long Call, one of Library Journal’s crime books of the year. Call into Dodworth Library to sign up & get your free copy! @HarrogateFest https://t.co/HMgbASxzSW

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To celebrate #WorldBookNight on Sunday April 23rd, Barnsley Library staff are letting you know about their favourite reads. Lee at Wombwell Library chose Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. We’d love to know what you recommend – post a picture with your favourite read! https://t.co/Cvog6Fg0Pt

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Plenty of novels are getting the TV treatment in 2022. Among those to look forward to is the BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends. Channel 4 will screen Queenie by Candice Carty Williams & Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam will be dramatised on Netflix. https://t.co/V9karANEdM

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To celebrate #WorldBookNight today we are sharing our favourite reads. Beth from The Lightbox chose ‘The Year of the Witching’ by Alexis Henderson: “It is a horror fan’s best friend, part Handmaid’s Tale, part The Village. It has you holding your breath until the very last page.” https://t.co/O4WtPbinPw

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The new YA book club (for 11-13-year-olds) meets on the first & third Wednesday of the month at 4:30 at the Lightbox. The next meeting is on May 4th and you can pick up your copy of our first book; Coraline by Neil Gaiman at the Lightbox this week! All welcome! https://t.co/BI2RTbXWr0