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*Christmas Holiday Closure Info* Note: customers can borrow up to 18 books (increased borrowing until 1 January). Read full details
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Celebrate the magic of the season with festive storytimes, crafts and family events! View timetable
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To help brighten everyday routines this winter, we have SAD Lightboxes available in every library. More info
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Free online Yoga on Tuesdays 11:00am - 12 noon from January - March 2026. Register once to access full series

Features

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Bookcited! podcast - on Friday 19 December we look back over some of the best books in 2025. Listen to episodes here

Author Joseph O’Connor has won the An Post Book of the Year award. Revisit our Bookcited! episode with the man himself. Listen now
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Remembering author Joanna Trollope - she wrote with warmth, about real situations that have relevance to women of all ages. Browse her books
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Sophie Kinsella author of the bestselling Shopaholic series of novels, remembered in her writing. View books
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Smoothie eMagazines and eBooks - delicious recipes to give you a health boost for Winter! Download now
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eMag of the Week is Country Living. Borrow now for free

Book Recommendations

Staff Picks, favourites and reviews!


Book cover image of James By Percival Everett

James by Percival Everett’s

Percival Everett’s James is a bold and brilliant reimagining of Mark Twain’s classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Told from the perspective of Jim, here called James, the novel transforms him from a caricature into a deeply intelligent, literate, and resourceful man. When James overhears plans to sell him and separate him from his wife and daughter, he flees to Jackson Island, where he meets Huck Finn, who has staged his own death to escape abuse. Their journey down the…

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Book cover of My Name Is Emilia Del Valle By Isabel Allende

My Name is Emilia Del Valle by Isabel Allende

Born in 1866 San Francisco to Molly Walsh (a former novice nun) and a Chilean aristocrat who vanishes without a trace, Emilia del Valle grows up in the city’s Mission District under the care of her strong-willed mother and loving stepfather. Fiercely independent and unwilling to conform to the expectations of women in the late 19th century, Emilia begins her literary career writing sensational dime novels under the male pseudonym Brandon J. Price. Her ambition soon pushes her into journalism,…

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