Friends of Redland Library

We are a voluntary group set up to support Redland Library and its services within the local and wider community

[Friends of Redland Library @FORedlandLib]

📣 TOMORROW

🎥 📖 Thursday 12th November
🎥 📖 7pm (doors open 6:45pm)
🎥 📖 Redland Library, Bristol

🎥 📖 “From Screen to Page: A Life in Stories”,
🎥 📖 A talk by author Jayne Chard

🎥 📖 Admission £3 (pay at the door - cash only)

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the Critics’ Circle Rose Bowl for Distinguished Service to the Arts, recognising his contribution to literature and the wider arts. 👇 https://t.co/W5RkDs4IJ6

[Bristol Libraries Forum @BristolLibForum]

📣 Today in all Bristol Libraries

❗❗❗ Due to unexpected problems with our provider, Wi-Fi, Public PCs and Printing Services are currently unavailable at all library branches.❗❗❗

We apologise for this inconvenience and are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

[The Reading Agency @readingagency]

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry is a playful, stirring meditation on history and storytelling: on what makes a King 'Great', and a life meaningful

Article: https://t.co/ecsJQv5AC7
Guide: https://t.co/D1l4hjHU3A
Extract: https://t.co/30iqkPl0qf
Film: https://t.co/w2CBWteu4L

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

John Berger’s TV series “Ways of Seeing” popularized a Marxist view of art and made him a star. In his centennial year, his wide-ranging output continues to inspire and infuriate. https://t.co/RmHISd7FI2

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

M John Harrison has won the £50,000 Booker Prize 2026 for The End of Everything (Serpent’s Tail), with the novel described by chair of judges Mary Beard as a “book that turns you upside down, raises a wry smile and, surprisingly, given the subject matter, leaves you with a twinge of optimism”.👇 https://t.co/hiAVlShCyw

[Dr Lucy English @Lucyenglish1]

It's tonight! 10 November at Shrewsbury Poetry! The next date in the Dream Time Tour 7.15 at The Hive, Belmont. Sign up on the door and open mic slots. Dream Time is published by Burning Eye Books.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

The story behind one of the greatest poems ever written, and a rare recording of Dylan Thomas reading it https://t.co/KVfQwz2AII

[Redland Library Events @RedlandLibEvent]

Many thanks to our Redland Library staff for this book display

✍️ Thursday 12th November
✍️ 7pm (doors open 6:45pm)
✍️ Redland Library, Bristol

✍️ “From Screen to Page: A Life in Stories”
✍️ A talk by author Jayne Chard

✍️ Admission £3 (pay at the door - cash only)

[Redland Library Events @RedlandLibEvent]

📣 NEXT WEEK

🎥 📖 Thursday 12th November
🎥 📖 7pm (doors open 6:45pm)
🎥 📖 Redland Library, Bristol

🎥 📖 “From Screen to Page: A Life in Stories”,
🎥 📖 A talk by author Jayne Chard

🎥 📖 Admission £3 (pay at the door - cash only)

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Zalina Kishova

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today's Daily Cartoon, by David McCaw.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The generosity of selfishness – C.S. Lewis on how to be interesting https://t.co/yAkzRxfEKr

[Paroles d'auteurs @Paroles_auteurs]

Umberto Eco, qui possédait 50 000 livres, disait ceci à propos des bibliothèques personnelles :

"Il est insensé de penser qu'il faut lire tous les livres qu'on achète, tout comme il est insensé de critiquer ceux qui achètent plus de livres qu'ils ne pourront jamais en lire. Ce serait comme dire qu'il faut utiliser tous les couverts ou les lunettes, les tournevis ou les forets que vous avez achetés avant d'en acheter de nouveaux.
Il y a des choses dans la vie pour lesquelles nous avons besoin de toujours avoir suffisamment de provisions, même si nous n'en utilisons qu'une petite partie.
Si, par exemple, nous considérons les livres comme des médicaments, nous comprenons qu'il est bon d'en avoir plusieurs à la maison plutôt que quelques-uns : quand on veut se sentir mieux, alors on va au « placard à pharmacie » et on choisit un livre. un livre aléatoire, mais le bon livre pour le moment. C'est pourquoi vous devriez toujours avoir un choix nutritionnel !
Ceux qui n'achètent qu'un seul livre, ne lisent que celui-là et s'en débarrassent ensuite. Ils appliquent simplement la mentalité de consommateur aux livres, c'est-à-dire qu'ils les considèrent comme un produit de consommation, un bien. Ceux qui aiment les livres savent qu'un livre est tout sauf une marchandise."

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Twelve books have been shortlisted for this year’s Polari Prizes, with six nominated for the Polari Prize and six for the Polari First Book Prize. 👇 https://t.co/5zdICjy7uM

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

This week’s cover is “Leaf Chic” by Carter Goodrich. Explore the issue: https://t.co/LcuKe0ZqPt

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The new miniseries “Tip Toe” confirms Russell T. Davies’s standing as one of the most fascinating television creators active today, Inkoo Kang writes. The five-episode drama is a minor work with visible budget constraints, and yet it offers more thoughtfulness and innovation than most of the year’s prestige programming. The show opens with a flash forward in which Leo (Alan Cumming), the owner of a bar in Manchester’s storied queer quarter, is found hanged from a lamppost outside his home; his presumed killer is his next-door neighbor, Clive Goss (David Morrissey). The timeline then jumps back ten days, when, after more than a decade of wordless coexistence, the two men interact and become enmeshed in each other’s lives. “ ‘Tip Toe’ is at its best when it captures what it feels like to live through the present-day backlash,” Kang notes. Read her full review: https://t.co/uM9WcZuKhG

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Shortly after he became the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, Albert Camus sent his childhood teacher this moving letter: https://t.co/nQnyWxEbLO

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“Without George Sand, there would be no Jane Eyre, no Adam Bede, no Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” —Kathryn Hughes https://t.co/3B97un9IMA

[Hull Libraries @hull_libraries]

Gulliver's Travels is 300 years old today. Published in 1726 and never out of print.