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Book Review – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
What makes this book is the quality of the research that has gone into it. The result is a detailed and absorbing study of a crime, a family, and a rural community at the height of the Victorian...
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Book Review – Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson Wright
The insight into the author’s unhappy childhood is interesting, but the meat of the book is her decade long descent into alcoholism. We had a lively discussion about whether the author is a sympathetic...
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Book Review – Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre
Although it has been meticulously researched, this book reads like a war-time thriller. It gives a fascinating insight into covert operations, and the mixture of planning and chance that goes into...
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National Reading Group Day Saturday 25th June
This Saturday is the first ever National Reading Group Day. It’s an opportunity for people who are already reading group members to get together and celebrate, and for anyone who is interested in...
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Bookclub on Radio 4
If you’re looking for something new to read, why not give the Radio 4 Bookclub a try. This is a monthly programme, with a website of hundreds of interviews. Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to...
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Reading for Wellbeing
Did you know that reading can cut stress levels by 68%?* At Leeds Reads we’re celebrating Leeds City Council’s Wellbeing Week by relaxing with a good book, so why not join us? We’ve chosen The Little...
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Book Review – Room by Emma Donoghue
Some of the newspaper comments put me off – I don’t want my heart broken or my gut wrenched. However having got into the book I found it very well written, very clever in giving everything from a...
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Book Review – The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price Purveyor of...
Our readers group at Wetherby Library recently read this interestingly titled book. Here are some of their comments:- “The book is written in a gentle way, it completely reflects the behaviours and...
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Crime Scene Leeds
We have been celebrating National Crime Writing month in Leeds Libraries and so far have enjoyed a number of author events in various different libraries. The month kicked off with the Theakston’s...
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Leeds Central Library Crime Club
The Crime Club at Leeds Central Library (next to the Town Hall and Art Gallery in Leeds) has been running since February 2012 and we have had a good following from the first meeting. We are a...
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New Year’s resolution – join a readers’ group
We love discussing books, having a chat and meeting new people! if you do too, why not join a readers’ group – great places to meet other people who love to read, talk about books and discover new...
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Book Review – The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
This book was one of our readers group collections that was read by a number of our readers groups across our libraries in the city. Halton Readers group were the last group to read it, and I received...
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