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Hello and welcome to the Falkirk Libraries podcast with Tanya and Vikki. You can find the books mentioned here on our library catalogue, if you want to request them.
Today’s episode is all inspiring women
What we have been reading and listening to:
Tanya has been reading and listening to:
- The colour of Bee Larkham’s murder, Sarah J Harris
- Recipes for love and murder, Sally Andrew
- Welcome to Nightvale podcast
Vikki has been reading:
- The Librarian – Salley Vickers
- Last Rituals, Yrsa Sigurdardottir
New and forthcoming adult books:
- Scent of Death. Simon Beckett
- Identity Crisis, Ben Elton
- The Garden of Lost and Found , Harriet Evans
- A Time of Blood , John Gwynne
- The Swap, Fiona Mitchell
New and forthcoming children’s titles:
- I’m not Grumpy Steve Smallman, Illustrator Caroline Pedler (0-5)
- The Naughtiest Unicorn, Pip Bird (5-7)
- Robin the First and Teen Titans Go … Fish, Amy Wolfram (Author), Sholly Fisch (Author), Jorge Corona (Illustrator), Chris Gugliotti (Illustrator) (7-9)
- Head Kid, David Baddiel , Illustrator Steven Lenton (9-11)
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson (Teen)
DVD recommendations:
- Bohemian Rhapsody (12)
- Johnny English Strikes Again (PG)
Our Reading Agony this week: ‘We would like to add an animal addition to our family can you help?’ Below are a few suggested titles
- 21 days to the perfect cat: the friendly boot camp for your imperfect pet, Kim Houston
- 21 days to the perfect dog: the friendly boot camp for your imperfect pet, Karen Wild
- The complete book of pets and pet care : the essential family reference guide to pet breeds and pet care, David Alderton
- The ultimate encyclopaedia of caged and aviary birds : a practical family reference guide to keeping pet birds, with expert advice on buying, understanding, breeding and exhibiting birds, David Alderton
- Complete puppy and dog care : what every dog owner needs to know, Bruce Fogle
If all of this puts you off we do have an alternative – cheaper and less stressful
- Knit your own Pet, Sally Muir
Staff quote of the day “Are you a Lizard?”
Our Discussion was all about inspiring women and their achievements – Among our selection we’ve chosen a few potted female history and biography collections, as well as books by inspirational women. Hopefully they will be a jumping off point for reading more detailed historical titles or biographies.
- Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
- Where are the women? A guise to an imagined Scotland, Sara Sheridan (published May 2019)
- Wild Women, Mariella Fostrup
- A History of Britain in 21 Women, Jenni Murray
- Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention, Cathy Newman
- Yes She can –Why Women Own the Future, Ruth Davidson
- A Woman’s shed: spaces for women to create, write, make, grow, think and escape, Gill Heriz
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History , Vashti Harrison
- The Skills: From First Job to Dream Job – What Every Woman Needs to Know, Mishal Husain
- So here I am Speeches: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire, Anna Russell
- Equal Power: Gender Equality and How to Achieve It, Jo Swinson
- Everywoman, Jess Phillips
- A History of the World in 21 Women, Jenni Murray
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- 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
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This is our last podcast before a 6 week break. We begin our new, refreshed season 3 on 15th May.
But keep an eye on our blog for new posts and feel free to go back and listen to some of our older episodes.
Thank you for listening to the Library Love podcast, we hope you’ve enjoyed yourself and if you did, then join us on rate and review us on Apple so that more people can find out about us. We love to hear from you and if you’d like to get in touch with us, or if you’ve got a Reader Agony of your very own then go to www.librarylovefalkirk.com, Falkirk Libraries on Facebook or @LibFalkirk on Twitter