by Sharon Marriott | Sep 14, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Books, New books
Thank You so much to Jackie Fisher for donating copies of her new comic book ‘The Child Detectives – The Pet Burglar’ to our library. The comic tells the story of some children who help the police find out who has been stealing the pets from the...
by Sharon Marriott | Sep 12, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Books
A HUGE BIG Thank You to Speaking Volumes for their contribution to our Community Library. With £500 worth of new books we are sure to have a book to suit everybody! From children’s books to adult fiction, non fiction, health and wellbeing – we have all...
by Sharon Marriott | Aug 11, 2023 | Book Reviews
Book Review: A Time for Mercy by John Grisham In ‘A Time for Mercy’, we meet up again with Jake Brigance the brilliant young defence lawyer, working in Clanton, Mississippi who we first read about in Grisham’s earlier novel “A Time to Kill” (if you haven’t read that...
by Sharon Marriott | Jul 13, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Books
We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Louise Fitzgerald for giving us some copies of her new book ‘The Quickest Bedtime Story Ever’ for our Children’s Section. Louise is going to be coming to the library in August for a special Interactive...
by Sharon Marriott | Jul 12, 2023 | blackfen community announcement, Books
Get ready for The Summer Reading Challenge, arriving at Blackfen Community Library this summer. Starting on Sat 8th July to 8 Sept. Children are being asked to read 6 books. As they read library books, they will collect stickers for their folders. If they want to read...
by Sharon Marriott | Jun 15, 2023 | Book Reviews
Book Review: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig I read this book a while ago but continue to recommend it to all my friends and to anybody who hasn’t yet read it. It is about a girl, Nora Seed, who gets the chance to see what her life would have been like if she had...
