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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.

Montage image of book covers

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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