Articles from 2020

2020. A year like any other. A year where nothing unusual happened… That’s not true, is it. None of us will ever forget 2020. Of course, in Guernsey we’ve been astonishingly fortunate compared to most of the rest of the world, and we are all…

Want a literary Christmas? Take a leaf out of Iceland's book... There’s nothing better than snuggling up with a book and a hot drink, and no one knows this better than the people of Iceland. They’re a nation known for their love of reading, with…

Local film buff Clameur du Cinema picks out his Halloween favourites. Looking for a good horror to get you in the mood for Halloween? Clameur du Cinema’s Wynter Tyson has written a guest blog for us listing his top ten chilling favourites.   1…

Memories from our school days of struggling through classic works of literature might make us reluctant to re-read them as adults. All that analysis can suck out the pleasure of reading the book. But, says our Fiction Librarian Tracey Woosley…

It's the start of a new chapter for storytelling at the Library. A full refurbishment has been carried out on the Story Tower, transforming the room at the very top of our historic building into a magical new storytelling space. The Tower has been…

We'd like to wish all our LGBTQ readers a very happy Channel Islands Pride!Here are 9 novels that you might like to read in celebration:   Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland…

Ever been reading a novel and had a sneaking suspicion that you might not be getting the full story? That things might seem very different from another character's point of view? After all, we all see life through our own eyes, with our own opinions…

Library Assistant Beth Brown shares the joys of shared reading Remember at school when everyone would sit in a circle and you'd take turns reading a story together? That is shared reading, and it doesn't only happen in the classroom - there's a…