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Books and Reading

If there's something you would like to read or listen to and we don’t have it, just suggest it to us, it’s free.
Check out the on-line suggestion form on this page or ask at your nearest library.

So far this year we have bought over 1000 of the titles that were chosen by you, including….
Practical books on electrical installation work, Polytunnel gardening, Building with bales!
Britain’s lost railways, new biographies of Wallis Simpson, Roald Dahl and Virginia Woolf.
More Phil Rickman and M C Beaton novels, Lonely Dead and Straw man by Michael Marshall, The Night Circus by Morgenstern and lots more Good Read titles are coming too.

Teen & children’s titles include more Asterix books, Vampire Academy and Wizard Heir.

DVD suggestions included "Made in Dagenham", "Downton Abbey" and new copies of the Harry Potter films.
Available from your spoken word suggestions are "Cider with Rosie", "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", "Wolf Hall" and of course language CDs - Beginner's French and Welsh Language.

What to Read Next
Who Writes Like
Who Else Writes Like is designed to help anyone who enjoys reading fiction to expand the number of writers they read. It is designed to answer the perennial question "I've read all the books by my favourite authors, who shall I read next?" You just need to login with your library card number.
Enter Who Else Writes Like

Which Book is a novel way to choose fiction and poetry that suits your mood and your taste.
Enter Which Book

 

Donations
We are happy to consider some donations to the library. However because of cost and space implications we can only accept certain kinds of book. Please see our donations policy in the resource box to the right for clear details about this.  

 

readers groups
Did you know there are over 100 Readers' Groups in Herefordshire?
If you are in a readers' group and would like to borrow sets of books, if you are starting a new group, or if you need some fresh ideas, you've come to the right place. Find out more here.
local authors
Local authors - Herefordshire breeds creative people: Phil Rickman, Rebecca Tope, Shoo Rayner, Caro Peacock, to name but a few. Find your favourite local author
 
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