The library is now open three afternoons a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 2.30-4.30pm. Two public computers are also available for use during sessions on a first come, first served basis. A Call and Collect service is also still available, you can either phone the library on 0116 237 6162 or pop a note into the book return box, and just leave your name, contact number and details of the book(s) you'd like to reserve.
When visiting the library, please remember to wear a face mask and use hand sanitiser (this will be available on entry to the library) before and after your visit. Please also be assured that we continue to liaise closely with Leicestershire County Council to ensure that we are adhering to government guidance, and have in place all requisite COVID19 precautionary measures, including social distancing, quarantining of books prior to re-shelving, adherence to track and trace requirements, an enhanced cleaning regime and a large perspex screen at the issuing desk for the benefit of visitors and volunteers.
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Upcoming Events
Community Book Club - Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell (2020)
Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 11 in 1596. It won the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction and the Fiction Prize at the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards. The novel was included on 15 lists of the best books of 2020.
All welcome - whether you have read the book or not. We are currently meeting on Zoom, if you would like to join us please email the library or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.
Community Book Club - Under the Skin, Michel Faber (2000)
Under the Skin is a 2000 science fiction novel by Michel Faber. Set in northern Scotland, it traces an extraterrestrial who, manifesting in human form, drives around the countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet.
All welcome - whether you have read the book or not. We are currently meeting on Zoom, if you would like to join us please email the library or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.
Community Book Club - Where the Crawdags Sing, Delia Owens (2018)
Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world–until the unthinkable happens. In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.
Community Book Club - Snuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart (2020)
Shuggie Bain is the debut novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart, published in 2020. It tells the story of the youngest of the three children, Shuggie, growing up with his alcoholic mother, Agnes, in the 1980s, in a post-industrial working-class Glasgow, Scotland.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.
Community Book Club - Burnt Sugar, Agni Doshi (2020)
In Avni Doshi’s Booker-shortlisted novel, Tara chooses to pursue her own desires, even as they come at an appalling cost. A restless and discontented young woman in 1980s India, she becomes so enthralled by a guru at a local ashram that she neglects her baby and abandons her marriage. She is absent and unrepentant, thoughtless of her daughter Antara, who later dispassionately describes how she “would disappear every day, dripping with milk, leaving me unfed”.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.
Community Book Club - The New Wilderness, Diana Cook (2020)
The New Wilderness is Diane Cook's debut novel that brings to life a wildly imaginative and terrifying dystopian story of a mother's battle to save her daughter from a world ravaged by climate change. Touching on humanity and our contempt for nature, this is a timely and compelling novel.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link
Community Book Club - The Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (2017)
Homegoing is an epic novel in every sense of the word - spanning three centuries, Homegoing is a sweeping account of two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana and the lives of their many generations of descendants in America.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link
Community Book Club - Redhead at the Side of the Road, Anne Tyler (2020)
Redhead by the Side of the Road is an intimate look into the heart and mind of a man who sometimes finds those around him just out of reach - and a love story about the differences that make us all unique.
All welcome. Meetings are currently held on Zoom - if you are interested in joining us, please email or message us via facebook and we will send you the link.