This Book Week Scotland, folk across the nation have been filling their windows with their favourite reads. Below are a few of our staff choices.
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Librarian picks
Gavin’s family have gone for: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline; Star Wars Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse; Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney; Yardie by Victor Headley
Lynne’s house picked: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving; His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman; The Road by Cormac McCarthy; The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.
Larbert Library picks
The Larbert staff have filled the window with Children’s picture books the love and made a display of their favourite reads.
Jennifer – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Val – The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
Maayan – The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Lucy – Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Lindsay – The Ice Twins by Sean Thomas
Anne – Cross stitch by Diana Gabaldon
Rosie – The Hobbit – Graphic Novel edition by JRR Tolkien
Jane – The Odd Women by George Gissing
Lynn – Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell
Bo’ness Library picks
Like true library staff, Bo’ness have organised their choices. And, of course, there’s a book about Bo’ness in there!
Scottish Books
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Kids
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling; Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery;The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
Adult fiction
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen; On the Beach by Neville Shute; Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Non fiction
Diary of Anne Frank; Life on earth by David Attenborough. Bo’ness : the fair town by William Fyfe Hendrie