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Monday 20 April 2026

Libby Update

Sunday 12 April 2026

School Holiday programme

Friday 10 April 2026

He Kakano

Friday 3 April 2026

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Thursday 2 April 2026

LEGO Club

Saturday 28 March 2026

Genealogy Drop-In Session

Friday 20 March 2026

Silent Reading Group

Friday 20 March 2026
Librarian Recommended Reads
Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation
by Eleanor Barnett
A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the life of food through preservation, the culinary reuse of leftovers and the recycling of food scraps
Wild Fictions: Essays
by Amitav Ghosh
Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection.
Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group and Braille Collective Story
by Daniel Beban
Future Jaw-Clap tells the story of a highly influential movement in New Zealand music: the self-made musicians of pioneering free jazz ensemble Primitive Art Group, who carved out their own radical musical language in the cold, hard reality of 1980s Wellington, and have gone on to richly diverse careers in music.
Seoul Food: From Kimbap to Kimchi, Delicious Recipes from the Heart of Korea
by Haebin Sudo
Embark on a culinary adventure through the rich and flavoursome world of Korean cuisine as author Haebin Sudo recreates 60 carefully selected dishes for her first cookery book. Seoul Food is full of delicious dishes that showcase authentic Korean meals, both for everyday and for special dinner parties.