Find out which books have been selected for World Book Night 2023. Featuring fiction, non-fiction, Quick Reads and audiobooks for adults and young people aged 16+, this list has something to encourage everyone to pick up a book. Take a look at the booklist for inspiration.
Source: The King’s Fund Library
This newsletter combines all the discussions from the November and December book group meetings and looks ahead to the books we’ll be reading in 2023.
Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast
What better way to discover new books than through recommendations from the shelves of inspiring women?
In this episode singer and songwriter Joy Crookes talks about rude awakenings and the feeling of being ‘slapped in the face’ by books.
Joy was initially recognised in 2013 for her cover of Hit the Road Jack which she posted on YouTube, gaining over 600,000 views (one of whom was to be her manager). Three years later, she released her debut single, New Manhattan, at just age 17. She went on to release her debut EP, Influence, with Speakerbox and Insanity Records, performing one of the songs on global music platform COLORS. Since then, she’s won two UK Music Video Awards, a Remarkable Women Award and performed at Glastonbury Festival. Her music focuses on themes of mental health, relationships and culture.
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. The 2022 longlist was announced recently, with the winner being announced on the 15th June.
Take a look at the list here to find out more about individual books and how you can get involved.
Source: Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast
Zawe Ashton, acclaimed actress, director, playwright and author, hosts Season Four of the chart-topping Women’s Prize for Fiction Podcast. The new Women’s Prize Podcast season continues to celebrate the best fiction written by women, by interviewing inspirational women about the books that have most influenced their life and career.
Radio DJ and TV presenter Edith Bowman talks to Zawe Ashton about their shared teenage obsession with Marilyn Monroe, being part of the early days of MTV UK, and how Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple changed her life.
Over her long and impressive career in broadcasting, Edith has acted as a touchstone and a guide into music, cinema and the media world for so many people. From her early days on Hit List UK for MTV, to bringing the nation together for huge communal events like Glastonbury or The Baftas – and now through her music and film podcast, Soundtracking.
Meet the judges for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction and find out what they’ll be looking for in a winning book.
Please see our display in the library for new fiction titles added to stock for Autumn. Why not pick up a good book to curl up by the fire with?
Please email the library team with any requests: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
As part of Health Literacy Month, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Services are running a shared reading session on Wednesday that has a Health Literacy aspect. They will be reading a couple of extracts from Karen Havelin’s ‘Please read this leaflet carefully’. It looks at the patient experience and her experiences of endometriosis, through diagnosis, treatment, and managing day to day life with a long term medical condition.
The session is on Wednesday 13th October. It is open to everyone with an interest in health literacy. There is no need to book, just turn up! It will take place via Teams from 12-12.30pm. The meeting link is here: Click here to join the meeting
Windrush Day honours the British Caribbean community, and the half a million people who travelled to the UK after the Second World War. The first Windrush Day was held on June 22 2018. More people than ever before are taking part this year to support the Windrush Generation, and show sympathy with the hardships they have endured.
For more information please read here.
We are currently promoting a collection of books inspired by the Windrush Generation in the library. If you would like one of these books to be posted out to you please email us academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. The 2021 shortlist was announced on 28th April, with the winner being announced on the 7th July.
