Our librarian Wendy Kirk and her volunteers, along with library users, have picked out books old and new to inspire and challenge you.
Take a look at the latest books to be added to the lending library collection, or find out about our latest Book of the Month. We also have new books available to be reviewed.
We love books at the Library, and we’re always looking for our new favourite book: why not recommend a book you love?
Recent Reading Ideas Posts:
Book of the Month – Not a passing phase: reclaiming lesbians in history 1840-1985
To celebrate LGBT History Month, we highlight a fascinating book from the library collection which tackles the difficulties of writing lesbian history. Have lesbians been expunged from history by academics and biographers who wish to deny their existence? The authors of Not a passing phase certainly believe so. Written in 1989 by the Lesbian [...]
Absolution
would recommend this book to read as the author has made the characters so real and the crimes so dark and horrifying that it sent shivers down my spine. It is a great thriller, I just couldn’t put it down.
Book of the Month – Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters
A fresh, blunt and fun style of writing is used by Valenti to help young women make the transition from a woman that doesn’t identify herself as a feminist but has feminist values, into a proud and informed feminist.
