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Never Stop Learning About Yourself

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 This Libraries Week do something different and take a look at our Reading Well collection. We’re not just here for the must-have text book or latest clinical update. We’ve got a range of titles including self-help books, poetry and popular fiction.

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Access the Collection

You can browse through the collection online via the Library Search catalogue. See something you like? Just request it and you can pick it up later.

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Or just pop along to the Health Library and browse the shelves – this collection is to the right as you enter through the glass doors.

Montage image of book covers

What books are available? Here is a selection (from the images above):

  • The Keeper of Lost Things (Ruth Hogen)
  • The Lido (Libby Page)
  • Calypso (David Sedaris)
  • Dear Mrs Bird (AJ Pearce)
  • Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems (Wendy Cope)
  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Charlie Mackesy)
  • The Lost Spells (Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris)
  • The Guest Cat (Takashi Hiraide)
  • The Moon#s a Balloon (David Niven)
  • Sour Heart (Jenny Zhang)
  • The Reader on the 6.27 (Jean-Paul Didierlaurent)
  • Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)

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