Northamptonshire Central Library

In The Rest of Our Lives, Benjamin Markovits turns one road trip into a piercing portrait of long marriage – emotionally astute, understatedly funny, and all the more affecting for its elegance. The kind of novel that leaves you thinking about love, damage and endurance long after it ends. Find it on BorrowBox now.

GoCitizen is an online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK test or British citizenship test and features:

• Online version of the latest official study materials licensed from the Home Office, the people who write the handbook
• Hundreds of practice test questions in the same format as the official test
• Additional interactive learning resources and teaching aids

You can get free access to this resource in any library or from home: https://northamptonshire.gocitizen.co.uk/library/t0c68fdl1iu

You may be interested in borrowing Etiquette for Lovers and Killers by Anna Fitzgerald Healy from Northamptonshire Central Library 😉

About the book:
What are the chances of receiving a love letter and an engagement ring for a perfect stranger, only to see that same woman murdered the very next day?
It's 1964 in the tiny town of Eastport, Maine, and Billie McCadie is bored to death. She's surrounded by dull people with more manners than sense, and no sign of the intrigue or romance that fills her beloved novels. That is, until an engagement ring and cryptic love letter turn up, addressed to 'Gertrude'. Until she meets yacht-club handsome Avery Webster. Until the unsettling phone calls and visits from a man in a fedora begin. Until she's one of the last people to see Gertrude alive . . . and the first to see her dead.
What follows is an intoxicating cocktail of stalking, blackmail, Jell-O salads, and champagne secrets, all served along the rocky Maine coastline. Everyone is a suspect. Everyone has a secret. And (strangely) everyone has a boat. But who is willing to kiss and tell? As the body count rises and the danger nears, why does Billie feel like she's more than just a side character? And after yearning to be in the action for so long, would it be terribly unladylike to have some fun of her own?
A love letter to uncivilized behaviour, Etiquette for Lovers and Killers blends mystery and romance into a twisty, murderous delight that aches for better manners.

Join us for Reading Friends on 17th June from 11 am to noon at Northamptonshire Central Library.

This month, our theme will be Travel the World (Armchair Travel). Thinking of memoirs, regional fiction, and anthologies, you can journey anywhere, from bustling streets to tropical beaches.

Did you know that we have information on the boot and shoe trade in Northampton? In Discover, we have various trade journals and books that cover all aspects of our historical major industry throughout Northampton and reaching across the county.

To find out more, visit the Discover department at Northamptonshire Central Library, which is open from 10am to 4pm, Tuesday to Friday.

You can borrow The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunday Times bestselling author Sunyi Dean from Northamptonshire Central Library.

About the book:
Mercy Chan is a triad exorcist with a mysterious past. After washing up on the shores of Hong Kong with no memory during World War II, she found a home in Kowloon Walled City, an infamous, ghost-infested slum full of lost and traumatised civilians. Since the war ended, Mercy has rebuilt her life and found work as a ghost-talker for the local triad, dealing with the angry and bitter spirits who haunt this place.
But the past she can’t remember won’t let her go. An unusually powerful ghost lurks in Kowloon’s waterways, drowning innocents and threatening the district. Unnervingly, it claims to know Mercy – and her forgotten childhood.
As Mercy is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with this malignant spirit, she begins to realise that the monster she fights within these walls may well be one of her own making.

Connie doesn’t believe in magic – until the Faraway Tree starts to fade. Enid Blyton fills The Folk of the Faraway Tree with wonder, worry and magical friends old and new. Beautifully narrated by Kate Winslet. Climb into the adventure. Now on BorrowBox!

You can now borrow The Tunnels by Ian Watson from Northamptonshire Central Library.

About the book:
Sam Samuel is in trouble.
After a visit to his local supermarket takes an UNEXPECTED TURN, Sam is press ganged into a subterranean treasure hunt and now he doesn't know who to trust.
His BICKERING TEAM MATES clearly hate each other. A GRUMBLING MINOTAUR and TWO THUGGISH HEAVIES are obviously up to no good. His new best friend TAKARA has a fluid relationship with the truth. THE DUKE, THE INSPECTOR, THE MIGHTY MALPHAS, THE GREY CLOWN and A GANG OF ANDROIDS with a suspiciously sweet tooth aren't making things any easier. And REALITY ITSELF - which seems to have given up on the basics - isn't being an enormous help either.

Theory Test Pro is a highly realistic online simulation of the UK's driving theory tests for all vehicle categories. It contains all the official test questions licensed from the DVSA, the people who set the tests.

The resource includes:
• Unlimited access to all the official questions from the DVSA in the same format as the official test
• Includes online version of Highway Code
• Realistic hazard perception video simulations
• Access to test banks for car, motorcycle, passenger carry vehicle and heavy goods vehicle categories
• Machine translation into over 40 different languages
• Speech-enabled tests so you can listen to questions

Access this resource in any library or from home to start practicing: https://northamptonshire.theorytestpro.co.uk/library/6nhyv3

Our Mini Makers took part in the Space Trail in the town centre and made space rockets with personalised messages.

Complete the Northampton Space Trail. You could win one of two £50 vouchers to spend in Northampton town centre! One of eight space-themed installations is waiting to be discovered at Northamptonshire Central Library - https://vicinitytrails.com/trail/planetarium-space-trail-1777455353148 👨‍🚀

Join us for the next Mini Makers session at 2.30 pm today. This is a drop-in session for children aged 11 and under, with a fee of £1 per child. New crafters are accepted up until 3 p.m.