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Reading events
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Aloud in the Cloud shared reading group (in-person)
14 October 2024
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St John's Wood Library crime reading group (in-person)
15 October 2024
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Shared reading group at Paddington Library (in-person)
17 October 2024
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Pimlico Library book group (in-person and online)
28 October 2024
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Westminster Writers Group at Mayfair Library (in-person)
5 November 2024
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St John's Wood Library book club (in-person)
6 November 2024
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Staff book recommendations
Touching the void by Joe Simpson
Reading and Literacy Librarian, Laurence Foe, gives us a insight into Joe Simpson's book, 'Touching the Void'.
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner
Library Officer Helen Bailey reviews Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner. A radical, joyful novel.
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
Library Officer, Helen Bailey, gives us an insight into her thoughts of Mary Jean Chan's poem, 'Bright Fear'.
Between the woods and the water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Reading and Literacy Librarian, Laurence Foe reviews 'Between the woods and the water' by Patrick Leigh Fermor.