The August edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.
Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department.
If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
We have been busy managing our book stock in the library over the last few months to keep our collections up to date and make way for new books coming in.
Our Library Assistant, Sue Clarke, has withdrawn over 400 books and these have been donated to Better World Books where they will hopefully find a new audience! Better World Books is a socially responsible book store and back in April they celebrated having sold a million books, keeping books out of landfill and readers supplied with new material.
Some of the books we have withdrawn are available to buy or swap from the trolley in the library. Please feel free to swap a good quality pre-loved book with one from the trolley or re-home one for a small donation. All donations will go to MacMillan Cancer Support.
We are constantly adding to our catalogue with new and donated books. There is a selection of new titles for this summer currently on display in the library, details are in the library catalogue here.
If you would like us to post one of these books out to you please email academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk or use the self-issue machine in the library when taking books from the display or the library shelves.
The July edition of the Library Newsletter is now available to view here.
Please feel free to download and share with your colleagues and/or department.
If you would like to see any additional features on our newsletter or have any queries regarding information featured in this month’s newsletter, please get in touch by emailing: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Windrush Day honours the British Caribbean community, and the half a million people who travelled to the UK after the Second World War. The first Windrush Day was held on June 22 2018. More people than ever before are taking part this year to support the Windrush Generation, and show sympathy with the hardships they have endured.
For more information please read here.
We are currently promoting a collection of books inspired by the Windrush Generation in the library. If you would like one of these books to be posted out to you please email us academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
Windrush Day honours the British Caribbean community, and the half a million people who travelled to the UK after the Second World War. The first Windrush Day was held on June 22 2018. More people than ever before are taking part this year to support the Windrush Generation, and show sympathy with the hardships they have endured.
For more information please read here.
We are currently promoting a collection of books inspired by the Windrush Generation in the library. If you would like one of these books to be posted out to you please email us academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. The 2021 shortlist was announced on 28th April, with the winner being announced on the 7th July.
The judges of the 2021 International Booker Prize have shortlisted six books in contention for the prize, which celebrates the finest translated fiction from around the world.
See the shortlist here.
Thank you to all of the authors who kindly gave up their time to answer our questions and offer words of wisdom and comfort to our valuable and brave front line staff. Their words have been interesting, inspiring and poignant and have also raised a few smiles during a difficult winter.
If you missed any of the posts you can catch up on them here
Thank you Jason Beresford, Vera Waters, Katie Fforde, Neil White, Catherine Jones, Milly Johnson, Debbie Johnson, Charlie Connolly, Laura Kemp and Araminta Hall for taking part in this project. We wish you all great success with your future writing projects.
We have a selection of books by these authors on display in the library. See the collection in our catalogue here. Please email us with any requests: academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk
The Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious annual book award celebrating and honouring fiction by women. The Prize celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women in English from throughout the world. The 2021 longlist was announced in March, with the winner being announced on the 7th July.
Take a look at the list here to find out more about individual books and how you can get involved.
Araminta Hall has worked as a writer, journalist and teacher. Her first novel, Everything & Nothing, was published in 2011 and became a Richard & Judy read that year. Her second, Dot, was published in 2013.
She teaches creative writing at New Writing South in Brighton, where she lives with her husband and three children. She is the great niece of Dodie Smith and great granddaughter of Lawrence Beesley, who survived the Titanic and wrote a bestselling account of the tragedy in the book, The Loss of the SS Titanic.
Her book, Our Kind of Cruelty, was published by Penguin Random House in 2018. It is a deeply unsettling thriller of a love story, in which a secret game between lovers has deadly consequences… This was followed by her latest novel, Imperfect Women, published by Orion in August 2020.
As our featured author, Araminta has kindly answered a few questions for us about books that have entertained and inspired her and her work as an author.
Read the interview here.
For more information about Araminta and her books follow her on Twitter or Instagram.
