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Gateshead Libraries@gateslibraries
16 Jan 2025
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It's Day 24 of #BookAdventCalendar and fittingly it's The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald. #YuleLoveIt
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Our seasonal opening hours can be found on our library website gateshead.gov.uk/article/964…
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ALT Poster with Christmas Opening Hours 23rd December Open as usual 24th December Closed 25th December Closed 26th December Closed 27th December Open as usual 28th December Open as usual (except Chopwell Library Closed) 29th December Closed 30th December Open as usual 31st December Closed 1st January Closed 2nd January Open as usual
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It's Day 23 of #BookAdventCalendar and it's The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier - Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle. #YuleLoveIt
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Day 22 of our #BookAdventCalendar with Under Your Spell by Laura Wood - a lovely romantic treat. #YuleLoveIt
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Day 21 of #BookAdventCalendar - it's the perenially popular Stephen Fry with Odyssey - can a hero find his way home? #YuleLoveIt
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Day 20 of #BookAdventCalendar is The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina - an evocative and atmospheric read. #YuleLoveIt
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Day 19 of our #BookAdventCalendar and it's The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola. It's another brilliant historical read, #YuleLoveIt
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It's Day 18 of our Book Advent Calendar and it's The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston. It's a compelling and powerful story set in Scotland and France in 1919, in the aftermath of the First World War. @florajowriter #BookAdventCalendar #YuleLoveIt
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It's Day 17 of our Book Advent Calendar! 🎄We've got another musical memoir for you this time with Under a Rock by Chris Stein 📖 #YuleLoveIt #BookAdventCalendar @chrissteinplays
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We're onto Day 16 of #BookAdventCalendar and with it we have the brilliant 'The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne' by Freya North 📖 When your present meets your past, what do you take with you - and what do you leave behind? #YuleLoveIt @freya_north
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GatesheadSoundGallery@GatesheadSound
16 Dec 2024
Just in time for Christmas is the CD Preservation Society in The SoundGallery at Gateshead Central Library today from 5pm. Tonight it’s Free’s Fire and Water with the classic All Right Now.
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More #ReadingHou festive fiction now with Lovelight by B.K. Borison. Stella tries to save the Christmas tree farm she's loved since childhood by winning a competition cash prize. She's said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. But there is no boyfriend. Enter Luka...
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Some more #ReadingHour crime now with local author Trevor Wood and The Silent Killer. DCI Jack Parker has faced tough cases but now a serial killer stalks the streets of Newcastle, one of his closest colleagues is dead and he's got early onset dementia - really gripping!
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And now it's our first festive read recommendation for #ReadingHour with Make My Wish Come True by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick. Teen actor Arden's messy reputation is damaging her career. Can fake dating her childhood best friend help? And is it all fake?
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First up for #ReadingHour, it's The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose. Molly the maid sees everything at The Regency Grand Hotel. When a famous mystery writer drops very dead on the tearoom floor it's up to Molly to mop up the clues. Entertaining!
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Morning! Welcome to #ReadingHour. This week we've mostly been reading either #crimefiction or #festivereads - how about you? Let us know!

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Day 12 of #BookAdventCalendar sees our first children's book - Twice Upon A Time by Michelle Harrison - a gripping adventure mystery. #YuleLoveIt @MHarrison13
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11 Dec 2024
‘Share The Light’ for Spellow Library 📚✨ Gateshead Central Library is among more than 120 libraries across the country lighting up tonight (11 December) to celebrate the reopening of a Liverpool library that was torched during the racist riots in the summer. #ShareTheLight
Gateshead Central Library is lit this evening (11 December) for the 'Share The Light' campaign.

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It's Day 11 of our #BookAdventCalendar with Nature's Ghosts by Sophie Yeo @some_yeo. Sophie was at Gateshead Central Library last week talking about her book and answering some great audience questions! #YuleLoveIt
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