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…

Sadly it’s not possible to visit Jesmond Library at the moment. In the meantime we’d like to invite you to enjoy this virtual tour. The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. – Albert Einstein Libraries allow children to…

I thought that it might be useful to post sites where it is possible to get online books for free – though if your computer is anything like mine it seems to be becoming harder and harder to get online! The city library has an…

My holiday itinerary always seems to involve going to, or staying on, islands. I seem mysteriously to feel the pull of these often isolated places. There is something about that distance between shore and the mainland, viewed often from a deck of a ferry, as…