Tag: reading

Read Out! Read In!

Artists Kate Davis and Faith Wilding developed Feminist Lines of Flight in 2010, inviting a diverse group of people to add their feminist ‘must reads’ and ‘must sees’ to an inspiring list now available on our website.

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World Book Night

World Book Night, is an opportunity for our community to share some of our favourite books. Come along and receive free books, whilst chatting with women from across Scotland, including some up and coming and established authors. If you are a world book night giver, and your books are written by women, bring along your titles to share with other women.

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Feelings are Facts: A Life

In association with Tramway, the legendary Yvonne Rainer will be at the library to
give a reading and sign her book, Feelings are Facts: A Life. Don’t miss out on this
fantastic opportunity to hear the work of one of the most important feminist,
avant-garde artists working today.

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Book Reviews

We have a lovely collection of review copies in the library. If you would like to review a book for our newsletter, and see your name in print (!)…

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Reaching for the Stars

I will always carry on reading now.

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1000 books you should read?

Last week, the Guardian published ’1000 novels everyone must read’, and after I’d worked out how few of them I’d read, I started to work out how many of their choices were written by women…

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Book Swap Site

I was looking through Glasgow Gumtree for ads that I recently placed on forthcoming events and I saw a site that I thought people might find of interest. It’s a book sway site that is free of charge, you register and then can browse and swap books with other users and all you have to [...]

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Book swapping

Calling all book lovers (and tree lovers) out there! We’ve now got a book-swapping shelf in the library for, yes, you guessed it, women to swap books with each other. As well as being a great way to save money and discover new authors, book swapping can also help us to make a positive change [...]

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