“Tea at Three” tea party with author Mandy Morton
Wednesday 10th May, 3:00 – 4:15pm
Tickets £10 (includes a scone tea and a free book!)
Enjoy a miaowvellous afternoon of cats, comedy, crime and scones as Mandy Morton introduces “The Windmill Murders”, the latest of her No.2 Feline Detective Agency novels. Ask in Histon Library, or email:
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Matthew Green – Shadowlands: A journey through lost Britain
Great Shelford Library
Wednesday 3rd May, 2pm
Tickets £5
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. Join historian Matthew Green to explore the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost towns and vanished villages: our shadowlands.
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Jim Kelly – The Silent Child
Milton Road Library
Thursday 20th April 2023, 7pm
St Ives Library
Thursday 27th April 2023, 7pm
Tickets £5
She can’t have a future until she has a past. Author Jim Kelly introduces his powerful and moving historical novel, The Silent Child – a survivor’s search for lost identity after World War II.
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Join us online for a free interactive 6-week course on short stories from around the world, running every Tuesday from 25 April-30 May (6-7pm).
This course will explore how place and culture inform the short fiction form. Over six weeks, we will read six stories, one from each inhabited continent. The stories will be pre-circulated before each class, but there will be no other coursework to be completed outside of class time. No prior knowledge is necessary, and all are welcome!
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On World Book Night, 23rd April, we celebrate the joy that books bring us.
Do you read to relax or to stimulate your mind? To learn or to escape? Are books your windows into the world or mirrors that help you reflect on your own life and experiences?
Probably most or all of the above! Whatever books mean to you, World Book Night is the time to share your passion for reading. Gift or recommend a book to a friend or neighbour or just sit down with them for a chat about titles you have enjoyed.
Library staff are always happy to suggest great reads when you visit your library, or you can check the Staff Picks and Recommended Reading lists on our online catalogue. For less confident adult readers we have a selection of Quick Reads, the perfect length to jump-start your reading.
World Book Night is an annual campaign by The Reading Agency – tackling life’s challenges through the proven power of reading.
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Last chance to see this exhibition.
Until April 24th St Ives Library will be hosting the British Library’s Chinese and British exhibition panels, exploring and celebrating this community’s contributions to life in the UK.
For a glimpse of one Chinese and British experience in Cambridgeshire, watch Ying’s story, a short video created for the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network.
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Click on the button below to take a look at our selection of new books for April.
Top pick
Wrong Place Wrong Time- Gillian McAllister
Can you stop a murder when it's already happened?
It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake, and it is yesterday.
Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lie the answers, and you don't have a choice but to find them.
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Our Cambridgeshire Listens and Cambridgeshire Reads collections bring you a wide range of books to borrow in eBook or eAudiobook format. Multiple use, they're great for reading groups and workplace reads. You could read and listen at the same time!
Each month the selection of adult, young adult and children's titles refresh - they're available to borrow over a 60 day period. Try the links to look at this month's offerings. We have 8 titles available as both Reads and Listens this month including: The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake, The Curfew by T.M. Logan, Winchelsea by Alex Preston, Odd Girl Out by Laura James, Black British Lives Matter by Lenny Henry, Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko, Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket and Two Terrible Vikings by Francesca Simon.
We also have 8 adult fiction, non fiction and children's titles available as just Listens including: The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting, The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns, Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan, Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton, The Wine of Angels by Phil Rickman, The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman, Show Us Who You Are by Elle McNicoll and Springtime Stories by Enid Blyton.
The Library Presents: Choosing Events Update
Thank you for all your choices for this year’s programme of music, theatre, dance, art and more in libraries. We are now counting the choices of everyone and working with artists and libraries to make events happen. All events will be announced in June. Join The Library Presents mailing list to find out as soon as events are available to book.
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You can borrow a laptop, tablet or mifi device from us for 7 days. You'll find them at our larger libraries and you can place a request and have one delivered to your nearest Cambridgeshire library. There are no fees or charges.
Great for coursework, job seeking and video calls.
You do need to have a library card.
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Ready, Set, Read!
We're excited to share that the Reading Agency has teamed up with @YouthSportTrust for the Summer Reading Challenge 2023! This summer the Reading Challenge will encourage children to unleash the power of play, sport and physical activity through reading.
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Did you know that your Cambridgeshire Libraries card gives you free access to Oxford Dictionaries? This resource includes a dictionary and thesaurus of current English language learning support and English grammar resources, and bilingual dictionaries for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and Portuguese.
All of this and more is available from home via our Online Reference Library – all you need is your library card number!
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Are you aged 40-74 and registered with a GP in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough? You may be eligible for a free NHS Health Check!
A Health Check looks at your general health, recording your height, weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
It’s recommended that you have a health check every 5 years, if you have not had a stroke, nor have you been diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes or kidney disease.
Healthy You provide Health Checks within your local community. Your appointment will only take 20-30 minutes. You will receive your results immediately with tailored lifestyle advice and information on specialist support if needed.
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Knitting obsessed? Crochet mad? Always wanted to try? Come join us at Central Library on the third Monday of the month (11.30am to 12.30pm) for a friendly and relaxed morning of crafting and to meet fellow stitchers! All levels are welcome.
This event takes place on the 3rd floor of Cambridge Central Library, in the café area. The space is wheelchair accessible and there is baby change and an accessible toilet on site. For full details of Central’s facilities, click here.
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Relive, research and lose yourself in the past with thousands of digitised videos and television programmes, from the 1960s to the 2010s.
Cambridgeshire Libraries are excited to be among the first to offer BFI Replay, a new online platform from the British Film Institute National Archive and partner UK Regions and Nations Film Archives – only available in public libraries.
BFI Replay will appeal to local history enthusiasts, people interested in TV history, and anyone who just fancies a trip down TV-viewing memory lane! Come along and explore - for fun, discovery, nostalgia or research.
This living digital archive will grow and evolve as newly digitised content is added. To view it you can use one of our library PCs or your own digital device – you just need to be logged onto library WiFi.
Find more details on our website, or ask about BFI Replay in your library. Meanwhile, here’s a taster on YouTube. Happy watching!
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