• alert-low
Interruption to catalogue search
Due to an unforseen technical issue with our library management system, catalogue search is currently unavailable. This issue has been reported. We apologise for any inconvenience caused at this time. 

Better Library Catalogue

Explore our catalogue

Explore our catalogue

Join a Library

Join a library

New in this month

The top picks hitting the shelves this month from our Librarians

Recommended Reads

Ready to find your new favourite book? Take a look at newest arrivals and hear what our librarians have to say about them. 

In our Dragonrider era

Dive into your dragonrider era with this collection of romantasy titles. 

Become a member

Join a local library today
Explore memberships

Bestsellers

Explore the latest bestselling reads to hit the Paperback top 10

Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025

Librarian's comments

The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in Non-Fiction written by women.
The 2025 longlist varies in subject matter, style and genre, and the 16 books make for an incisive and original reading list. Find out more about the books here or visit our library.


Private revolutions: coming of age in a new China

Yang, Yuan, author.

Agent Zo: the untold story of fearless WW2 resistance soldier Elzbieta Zawacka

Mulley, Clare, author.

The story of a heart

Clarke, Rachel (Physician), author.

Raising hare

Dalton, Chloe, author.

The eagle and the hart: the tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

Castor, Helen, author.

Embers of the hands: hidden histories of the Viking Age

Barraclough, Eleanor Rosamund, author.

Autocracy, Inc: the dictators who want to run the world

Applebaum, Anne, 1964- author.

The peepshow: the murders at 10 Rillington Place

Summerscale, Kate, 1965- author.

Wild thing: a life of Paul Gauguin

Prideaux, Sue, author.

A thousand threads

Cherry, Neneh, author.

Why fish don't exist

Miller, Lulu, 1983- author.

What the wild sea can be: the future of the world's ocean

Scales, Helen, author.

Something different

Stuck in a reading rut? Browse our list of books that aims to broaden your horizons and help you discover something new.

Discover Digital

Explore our large and growing collection of eBooks, eMagazines and eNewspapers, Audiobooks, and Music, available free with your library card. With hundreds of thousands of titles from all major publishers and authors, there is always something new to discover. 
Learn More

Staff picks

Librarian's comments

What are we reading? Find out your local librarian's top picks. 

Comedy, comedy, comedy, drama: a memoir

Odenkirk, Bob, 1962- author.

James Joyce: with 124 illustrations

Anderson, Chester G.

Dawnlands

Gregory, Philippa, author.

The missus

James, E. L., author.

Historical fiction

Stuck in a reading rut? Browse our list of books that aims to broaden your horizons and help you discover something new.

World Book Day

Find inspiration for who to dress up as this World Book Day with our collections of children's favourites