Libraries NI (Northern Ireland)

Highlights

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BookCited Podcast Specials - Daily Author Conversations for Book Week NI 2025

Watch our Livestreamed Events from Book Week NI 2025

Wi-Fi is available and free to customers in all of our libraries [Highlight tile 3]

Free Wi-Fi in libraries. Members can use Wi-Fi on their own portable devices. Find out more

e-Books and e-Audiobooks free to borrow from Libraries NI [Highlight tile 4]

Borrow books the digital way and download eBooks and eAudiobooks. Find out more

Features

September 2025 Go On IT sessions; book for free [Feature tile 1]

Go On sessions during October to help you with your IT needs. Come along to a free session! Find out more

Storytime events in libraries [Feature tile 2]

Storytime events; join us for free! Sessions spark imagination and a love of reading! View events

Knit and Natter events in libraries [Feature tile 3]

Knit and Natter in libraries - free sessions in a relaxed space to stitch and chat! View locations and times

Rise And Thrive Book Collection from Libraries NI [Feature tile 4]

The Rise and Thrive book collection - build your skills, confidence and future! View the titles now and borrow

Cultural Heritage resources from Libraries NI [Feature tile 5]

Cultural Heritage resources including the Newspaper Library, Exhibitions, Family and local history. More info

eMag of the Week is Celebrate! Halloween Treats and More!

Book Recommendations

Staff Picks, favourites and reviews!

Killing Time by Alan Bennett

What happens when a care home becomes a stage for rebellion?

Alan Bennett’s Killing Time is a razor-sharp, darkly funny novella set in a superior council-run care home during the Covid lockdown. The story follows a cast of eccentric residents, such as Mr Peckover, a deluded archaeologist; Mr Cresswell, a flamboyant ex-cruise ship hairdresser; and Mrs Foss, an enterprising schemer, presided over by the formidable Mrs McBryde. Among jigsaws, dry sherry, and petty squabbles, the eccentric residents seize unexpected freedoms as routines…

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods

The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods is a spellbinding tale of love, literature, and second chances, wrapped in mystery and magic. Set between 1920s Paris and present-day Dublin, it follows three characters whose lives are bound by a vanished bookshop and a lost Brontë manuscript.

Opaline Carlisle escapes a stifling life in London and finds herself among literary legends at Shakespeare and Company. Her quest for a forgotten Emily Brontë manuscript becomes a journey of self-discovery and defiance. In the…