 Loneliness Awareness Week is an annual campaign which aims to get people talking about loneliness.
Libraries are working with the Reading Agency to provide Reading Friends, bringing people together through books, stories and talking, helping to combat loneliness in the community.
Reading Friends Groups meet on a regular basis in libraries to talk about reading as well as anything else that interests them. You don't need to read anything before or at the session and everyone is welcome, so come along, meet new people and share stories together.
Reading Friends can also be enjoyed as part of our home library service with Reading Friends visiting people in their homes to share stories and chat.
 This Refugee Week we are hosting Gulwali Passarlay at Hastings Library.
Gulwali Passarlay fled Afghanistan and endured a terrifying journey in the hands of people smugglers. He travelled through10 countries, was sent to jail on three separate occasions, escaped from an Iranian prison, and attempted to board a lorry in Calais over 100 times, before eventually crossing the channel in a refrigerator truck of bananas aged just 13 years old.
He is now intent on changing the world. His story is a deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring tale of our times a "testament to the courage of all those fleeing conflict in search of safety." The Independent on Sunday.
 Meet Kathryn Colas author of the bestselling How to Survive Menopause Without Losing Your Mind at Crowborough Library.
Kathryn is called upon for expert opinion, media interviews and public speaking. She’s the first lay person to be appointed to the medical advisory committee of the British Menopause Society.
Kathryn will be talking about her life, her book and answering questions.
 With your library card and PIN you can reserve 6 books.
You can also renew your books, download eBooks, eAudio, magazines and newspapers and digital comics. Make a SavedList of books you want to read or write a review of a book you loved.
Next month you’ll need your PIN to sign-up for the Summer Reading Challenge.
 ‘Bageye at the Wheel’ by Colin Grant.
This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of his ten-year-old son. It’s a wry and gentle comedy about unfulfilling day jobs and late-night poker games, of illegal mini-cabs and small-scale drug-dealing. It is also about a family struggling to belong in post-Windrush Britain and growing up in a vanished world of 1970s suburbia.
“Like the best memoirs, the book reads like a novel – a lively and dramatic one, with a full cast of vibrant local characters and long-suffering family members.” Read and loved by Joanna.
Colin Grant is visiting Hastings Library to talk about his books, tickets are free, but must be booked.
The tricky part can sometimes be finding the right book to read, so every month we suggest our favourites – old and new – to help you, on our Get In Our Good Books page!
This month our quote is from The winter of our discontent by John Steinbeck
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