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.
This month's book is Station 11, by St John Mandell. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America.
The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.
If civilization was lost, what would you preserve?
And how far would you go to protect it?
Everyone is welcome, whether you've read the book or not.
| Event Date | 08/04/2020 7:15 pm |
| Event End Date | 08/04/2020 8:15 pm |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Individual Price | pay as you like |
This month's book is Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Everisto. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019. Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gloriously new kind of history, a novel of our times: celebratory, ever-dynamic and utterly irresistible.
The book group meets on the second Wednesday of each month, and is open to everyone, whether you've read the book or not.
| Event Date | 13/05/2020 7:15 pm |
| Event End Date | 13/05/2020 8:15 pm |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Individual Price | pay as you like |
Black Swan Green charts a year in the life of a sensitive boy apt to be bullied, who writes poems under the pen name Eliot Bolivar, but whose real name is Jason Taylor. He has a sister who leaves home to go to university and parents who eventually split up as it is discovered that the father has been having an affair. If you'd like to take part in the book group - all meetings are currently online - please email the library.
| Event Date | 12/08/2020 7:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 12/08/2020 8:00 pm |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Individual Price | N/A |
The Cuckoo's Calling, by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling). Contact us if you would like to join us and you willl be sent a link.
| Event Date | 11/11/2020 7:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 11/11/2020 8:00 pm |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Individual Price | Free |
A Kind of Loving, by Stan Barstow. Please contact us if you would like to join us and you willl be sent a link.
| Event Date | 09/12/2020 7:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 09/12/2020 8:00 pm |
| Capacity | Unlimited |
| Individual Price | Free |