Truro Community Library

22/07/2025

Deborah Levy's book has been made into a film starring Emma Mackey as Sofia and Fiona Shaw as Rose, her overbearing, hypochondriac mother, whose relationship reaches boiling point in the heat of a small Spanish village.
It looks an excellent adaptation of an excellent book.
Have a look for the book in the library.

22/07/2025

Recently found in the library (not an actual library book🤣)

No worries Marian, we love your outlook and optimism!

20/07/2025

20/07/2025

We love a book with the word library in the title!
Especially one with such a beautiful setting.
Set on the rural West Coast of Ireland, Hanna drives the mobile library van, trying not to think of the London lifestyle she abandoned after finding her barrister husband in bed with another woman.
She's living in the back bedroom of her mother's retirement bungalow in the small town she walked away from in her teens, her daughter Jazz is travelling the world, and her relationship with her mother growing increasingly fraught, Hanna is determined to reclaim her independence.
And when the threatened closure of the library puts her plans in jeopardy, she finds herself leading a battle to restore the heart and soul of Finfarran's fragmented community.

19/07/2025

Chocolat continues!
Vianne is the prequel, set six years before the events of the original.
Twenty-one year old Sylviane arrives in Marseille to start a new life working as a waitress in a run-down bistrot. Under the guidance of eccentric Guy Lacarrière she discovers the joy of cooking, a secret love affair and, for the very first time, the true magic of chocolate.

Yet as she starts to dream of making a future for herself in the town, she finds herself at the centre of a growing conspiracy that will threaten everything she's fought so hard for.
Needless to say there's a huge queue but it's worth the wait.

18/07/2025

Another read that’s great inside and out thought Ted

18/07/2025

The Lego will be out tomorrow until lunchtime.
Don't come in barefoot....

18/07/2025

Maggie says: “In a sense, gaps in history are frustrating for a biographer or historian. But for a novelist, those gaps are quite enticing. They form this kind of vacuum that you are able to step forward and fill with whatever story you yourself want to tell. Because obviously, my Agnes (Hamnet) and my Lucrezia (The Marriage Portrait) are fictional characters – they have the names and the framework of real people, but other than that, I just made it all up.”

18/07/2025

Look out for the adaptation of Jim Crace's brilliant book Harvest, hopefully at a cinema some where near us! The visual imagery is perfect for making into a film.
It is late summer and the final fields of barley are being harvested when three outsiders - two men and a dangerously magnetic woman - arrive on the woodland borders of the village, triggering a strange series of events.
Walter Thirsk sees his village unmade in just seven days, the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, cruel punishment meted out to the innocent, and allegations of witchcraft abound.

Catch up on the beautifully lyrical prose of the book first.
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/film/news/watch-trailer-scottish-drama-harvest

17/07/2025

Nothing very cosy about this book.
The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet has shades of The Talented Mr Ripley and Brideshead Revisited but no less impressive for that. In fact it makes reference to Brideshead 👏
There's an ancestral home, a lot of entitled and moneyed folk, blackmail and a clever but from a different class lad, Edward, who is just about getting by in a world he cannot afford, scurrying after his posh friends.
Until...
Excellently read by Jack Davenport on Borrowbox with an illuminating Q & A.
https://cornwall.borrowbox.com/product/BOL_5385928/title/the-kellerby-code

16/07/2025

Last Storytime at Truro Library this summer !
Don’t forget to join us at Victoria Gardens at 2pm every Wednesday until end of August
🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸🧸 🧸🧸

16/07/2025

Very apt for today! 🌂☔
But sunny again tomorrow! 🌞😎