There is a special delight in choosing a new book from the Library shelf. What will it be? A novel – crime, romance, historical or thriller – each provide a voyage of discovery to a fictional world peopled by characters formed in the imagination of…

Rules, and lives, are changing. Schools and nurseries are cracking open their doors. People are returning to work. We’re taking tentative steps towards seeing our friends and loved ones. We continue to peep round corners, give strangers a wide berth, but the pace of life…

We are already challenging budding and established writers. Now we have something for the artists among you. The Library is asking you rise to a new challenge to keep yourselves busy in these strange times. As with the Creative Writing we will post a theme…

How very different lockdown would have been without technology to help us stay in touch with each other. Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, WhatsApp have all helped to make the separation from family and friends so much easier. Humorous gifs and memes have given us reason to…

Another week, another Jesmond Library Creative Writing Challenge! We’ve received some fascinating entries so far to our lockdown writing challenge – some funny, others thought-provoking, and some quite fantastical. All are brilliant. We hope you’ll continue to send us more! This week we start the…

… Jesmond keeps busy! Even though we’re not allowed to reopen the Library just yet, it doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on. Book Group The library book group will next meet (online) on Wednesday 3 June at 7:00 pm, to discuss “The Return” by Victoria…