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Hello from Bristol Libraries! We're a public library service with 27 libraries across the city. This account is monitored during office hours.

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📚✨ Love reading Nonfiction books? Join Our Book Club! ✨📚
🗓 When? First Tuesday of every month
⏰ Time? 5:30 PM
📍 Where? Westbury Library
💌 Interested? Email us at:
✉️ [email protected]
🔑 Note: Extended Access on your library card is required, ask Westbury Library staff for details
Poster for Westbury Library’s Nonfiction Book Club. The top section has the Bristol Libraries logo and the title “Westbury Library Nonfiction Book Club” in bold orange and brown text. Below, blue text asks: “Do you like reading and talking about history, psychology, biographies, science, art, society, etc?” The main image shows a person sitting comfortably on a sofa, wearing a cozy sweater and jeans, holding an open book in their lap. At the bottom, details in blue text read: “5:30 PM, First Tuesday of the Month. To find out more & get involved, email: nonfiction.bookgroup2023@gmail.com. Note: you will need Extended Access on your library card.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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📚 Poetry as Protest ✒️
Join us at Redland Library for an evening of words that spark change!
🗓 Thu 27 Nov | ⏰ 7 PM (Doors 6:45)
🎤 With Martin Kiszko – UK’s Green Poet 🌍
💷 £3 cash at the door
👉 No booking needed – just come along!
More info: FriendsOfRedlandLibrary.org.uk
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Event poster for Poetry as Protest at Redland Library, Bristol. Join Friends of Redland Library on Thursday, 27th November at 7 pm (doors open 6:45 pm) for a performance and talk by Martin Kiszko, the “UK’s Green Poet.” Admission is £3, cash at the door. Poster features bold text, colorful book covers on the left, and a hand holding a quill pen on the right. Contact details and website link included at the bottom.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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🌿 Huge thanks to the Friends of Henleaze Library for doing a wonderful job tidying up the garden ✨
📚🤝📅 Would you like to get involved with the Friends? You're in luck - they've got a meeting coming up this coming Tuesday 25th November, 5:30pm at Westbury Tavern - maybe see you there
#henleaze #bs9
The Friends of Henleaze Library standing smiling in front of the library holding gardening tools, next to an attractive flower bed
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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🐒🌿 Go bananas at Marksbury Road Library! 🌿🐒
Our amazing staff have created a monkey-themed jungle display 🐵🍌
📚 Swing by and explore our brilliant selection of animal-themed books for curious little readers 🦁🐯🐒
#MarksburyRoadLibrary
A colorful jungle-themed children’s library display between two bookshelves. The display features green vines, large leaves, and paper cutouts of monkeys and other animals hanging from branches. There are illustrated jungle scenes in the background, with bright colors like green, orange, and purple. Books are arranged on the surrounding shelves.
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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🎉 CENTRAL LIBRARY LEGO CLUB 🧱🤖🚀
✨ FREE!
📅 2nd & 4th Saturdays of each month
🕑 2:30 – 3:30 PM
👧🧒 Suitable for children aged 4–10 years
👨‍👩‍👧 Children must be accompanied by an adult
🌐 www.bristol.gov.uk/libraries
📧 [email protected]
📞 0117 903 7215
💡 No booking required – just walk in!
Bright yellow flyer with bold red and black text promoting Central Library LEGO Club. Includes details: Free event, 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 2:30–3:30 PM, ages 4–10, no booking required, Bristol Libraries logo, contact info and website.
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Totally normal Friday afternoon at Central Library. Just taking one of our library trees for a walk ahead of #NationalTreeWeek next week. 🪴🌳🌿
A member of library staff pushing a library book trolley with a large plant balanced on top
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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🎉 Celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th!
📅 22 Nov | ⏰ 1 PM
📍 Sea Mills Library
Enjoy 🍰 cakes, 🎨 art, ✏️ silhouette drawing, 📖 storytime & more!
✨ Costumes welcome. Free entry!
👉 More Info: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=252...
#JaneAusten #SeaMillsLibrary #SeaMills
Poster for “Jane Austen Celebration” with floral decorations and pastel colors. Text includes: 22nd November from 1.00pm, Sea Mills Library. Banner reads Cakes and Refreshments available. Activities listed: Children’s Drawing Exhibition, Raffle, Silhouette Drawing, Children’s Storytime, Giveaways, Public Reading. Bottom section invites guests to a 250th anniversary event celebrating Jane Austen’s life and works, encouraging costumes. A quote reads: “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends…” – Northanger Abbey, 1818.
November 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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📚 Lunchtime Talk: Writing Historical Fiction with Author @finavon.bsky.social

🗓️ Thursday 27th November
🕧 12.30–1.30pm
📍 Holden Foyer, Bristol Central Library

🎟️ Tickets are free! Sign up on our events website:
👉 bristol.events.mylibrary.digital
Lunchtime Talk: Writing Historical Fiction with Author David Cairns Thursday 27th November 12.30–1.30pm Holden Foyer, Bristol Central Library Join us for a free lunchtime talk with author David Cairns, who will discuss the research behind making his fiction as 'real' and accurate as possible, his inspiration from British writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, and his love of a good mystery. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. Tickets are free! Sign up on our events website:
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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🎲 BOARD GAMES DAY
📍 at Sea Mills Library
📅 Saturday 8th November
🕙 10:30am – 1:30pm
🔗 Free, please book: www.meetup.com/tabletopgame...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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🦇 Dracula & Frankenstein: their literary roots
🦇 Thursday 30th October, 7pm (Doors open 6:45pm)
🦇 A talk by Richard Gadz
🦇 Redland Library, Bristol
🦇 Admission £3 (Pay at the door - Cash only)
🦇 Presented by the Friends of Redland Library: friendsofredlandlibrary.org.uk
Text as in the post, with images of Dracula and Frankenstein books and characters, bats, and the Friends of Redland Library logo
October 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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👀😈Watch out there's a monster about!
👀😈 Friday 31st October at 11.15 at Westbury Library
👀 😈Songs, story and craft!
👀😈Children must be accompanied by an adult
Image of poster with monsters.
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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We had a FUN filled day on Saturday for @funpalaces.bsky.social weekend! ✨
Over 60 people joined us at Bristol Central Library for:
🧘 Tai Chi
🎨 Friendship bracelet making
🍄 FUNgi Haiku
👻 A spooky story
It was great to see so many people trying something new which is one of the keys to happiness! 😊
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🎧 STREET! launches today on #NationalPoetryDay!
A digital poetry project placing GPS-triggered soundpools outside 12 Bristol libraries.

Walk into a soundpool & hear poems about street life, neighbourhoods & local vibes.

📱 Find out more and download the app: ralphhoyte.org/home/street/
October 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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We were so pleased to welcome The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of Bristol, Cllr Henry Michallat & Cllr Stephen Williams, with children & families from our libraries 🏅🌳🌼
For our Summer Reading Challenge prize-giving 🌤🌞🐸
A BIG Well done to EVERYONE who has taken part!
@readingagency.bsky.social
group of children and the Lord Mayor in the library
September 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Image of child and parent playing chess, really having a good time.
September 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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📚 September is here and this month's Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox have arrived!

These 📖 E-books & 🎧 E-audio titles are available to borrow now - without the wait!

➡️ Browse this month's collection online here: bristol.borrowbox.com
📚 September 🎉 Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox From Bristol Libraries! 📖 E-books & 🎧 E-audio: 📘 Somebody I Used to Love – Eve Ainsworth 🏰 The Prisoner's Throne – Holly Black 🌫️ Raven Black – Ann Cleeves 📝 The Headmaster's List – Melissa De La Cruz 🐇 Raising Hare – Chloe Dalton 🕵️‍♀️ Guilty by Definition – Susie Dent 🚫 Break Every Rule – Brian Freeman 🌊 Fire on the Horizon – Imogen Robertson & Wilbur Smith 🎼 Intermezzo – Sally Rooney ⏳ The Stolen Hours – Karen Swan 🎧 E-audio only: 🌌 Big Sky – Kate Atkinson 🐶 Started Early, Took My Dog – Kate Atkinson 💕 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 🕵️‍♂️ Deborah Goes to Dover – M.C. Beaton 🏫 New Class at Malory Towers – Enid Blyton & others 📕 The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Bluebonnets – Matt Eversmann & James Patterson 📖 The Book That Broke the World – Mark Lawrence 🕯️ My Love by Candlelight – Faith Martin 👑 Murder Most Royal – Rhys Bowen 🎒 The Boy at the Back of the Class – Onjali Q. Rauf
September 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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📢 We're hiring! We're looking for a professionally qualified Stock Librarian to join our team at Bristol Central Library.

📅 Application closing date: 21st September

🔍 For the job description and person specification, search 'librarian' on the council jobs website here: www.bristol.gov.uk/jobs
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September 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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A huge thank you to author @benaaronovitch.bsky.social for his event with us on Saturday night! 🎤📚✨

It was a pleasure to host you and thank you to a wonderful audience for all of your questions. 🙏

Thanks also to @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social for selling books on the night! 📖🌟
Author giving a Q&A in a library, speaking to a seated audience with a presentation screen behind them. A display of books featuring Ben Aaronovitch's novels, including 'Amongst Our Weapons' with a blue and gold cover, surrounded by other titles and bookshelves in the background.
August 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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☀️🍦🕶️ August Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox From Bristol Libraries! This month's titles for 📚 e-books & 🎧 e-audio

📱 Download the app or browse our Borrowbox shelves online here: bristol.borrowbox.com

#bristol #libraries #summerreading #borrowbox #ebooks #eaudiobooks #audiobooks
August Unlimited Loans on BorrowBox From Bristol Libraries! 📚 E-books & 🎧 E-audio A Wedding for the Bomber Girls – Vicki Beeby City of Vengeance – D.V. Bishop The Rising Tide – Ann Cleeves One Perfect French Summer – Lucy Coleman Jericho’s Dead – William Hussey We Were Liars – E. Lockhart Heartless – Marissa Meyer Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling The Boy Who Sang with Dragons – Andy Shepherd 🎧 E-audio only When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson Dead on Target – M.C. Beaton Well Done, Secret Seven – Enid Blyton Eruption – Michael Crichton & James Patterson Things We Do For Love – Miranda Dickinson Know Your Rights – Amnesty International UK Verity – Colleen Hoover The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman Shadows in the Moonlight – Santa Montefiore Join BorrowBox here! BorrowBox. Get it now
August 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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✍️Join our Monthly Online Creative Writing Group!
🕐📆 The next session is Friday 22nd August 2-3pm.
🎟️ Book a place for FREE on our booking website: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=23558
📧 Any questions or problems, please email: [email protected]
Text says: Write On, Bristol! Online Creative Writing Group. Monthly Mondays or Fridays 2-3pm. Free to book on our website. Open to new and experienced writers. The infographic is of a person sitting on a big ball and holding a big pencil over their head. The Bristol Libraries logo is at the bottom alongside the Reading Agency and Reading Friends logo.
August 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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📚 Avonmouth Community Centre Association presents: An evening with Andrew Child in conversation with Roger Corke

🎟️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/acca
🗓️ Tuesday 22nd July
🕕 6 pm to 8 pm
🚪 Doors open at 5:15 pm

#avonmouth #library #bristol #bristollibraries #avonmouthcommunitycentre #free
July 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Do you know someone who struggles to read? 📚

ReadEasy offers free and confidential one-to-one reading coaching for adults. Help someone you know improve their reading skills and gain confidence!

📧 Email: [email protected]
📞 Call: 07554 117 763
🌐 @readeasynnt.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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St Pauls Library will be closed on Saturday July 5th, including the Public Network PCs in the Cafe. This is due to the St Pauls Learning Centre being closed while St Pauls' Carnival is happening.

Junction 3 Library will remain open as normal.
St Pauls Learning Centre in Bristol
July 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🌿 Thank you to everyone who came along to our Incredible Plants and their Secret Worlds event last night!

🌸 A huge thank you to panellists Francesca Gardener, Sarah Shuttleworth (@plantlife.loveplants) and Danny Clarke (@theblackgardener), and event chair Katherine from @britishlibrary.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Next week! ✨🌿 Join us for an evening with gardener Danny Clarke, @plantlifeuk.bsky.social botanist Sarah Shuttleworth and pastoral literature scholar Francesca Gardner for a lively discussion exploring the power and poetry of plants

📆 Monday 30th June, 7-8.30pm
🎟️ Free! Sign up on Eventbrite
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM