The Diverse Book Awards 2022 - shortlist announced!

Created by The Author School, the Diverse Book Awards highlight the best of diverse voices, novels featuring Black, Asian, Latin American and/or inclusive main characters, published in the UK.

The Awards are divided into three categories, children's, Young Adult and Adult, with eight books shortlisted per category.  The books nominated in the YA category, some of which are available to borrow from the EPHS Libraries, are:

The winner will be announce on October 20th 2022 at Waterstones Piccadilly.

London Literary Festival - Malorie Blackman

The London Literary Festival takes place from the 20-30th October at the Southbank Centre in London. Among the highlights are Greta Thunberg and author Malorie Blackman, who is just about to release her memoir Just Sayin: My Life in Words', published by Stormzy's #Merky books imprint on 22 October 2022.  

To find out more Malorie's talk click here.  Her memoir is on our wish list!  

Meanwhile, you can browse and borrow Malorie’s books, including her Noughts + Crosses series, from the EPHS libraries.

Banned Books Week 2022

This week is Banned Books week, a campaign that celebrates our freedom to read.  This year's theme is "Books unite us. Censorship divides us".  Celebrate, by exercising your right to read!

A banned book is any that have been censored, banned or where its removal or restriction has been called for from libraries, schools, bookshops or public circulation. A book might be challenged by individuals, private pressure groups or governments who disagree with its content or message and therefore wish to censor or silence the author’s voice.

Many children's and YA books have previously been banned, including the Harry Potter series by J K Rowling, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Maus by Art Spiegelman. All of these are available to borrow from the EPHS Libraries.

Queen Elizabeth II 1926 - 2022

Yesterday, Buckingham Palace announced the sad news that the Queen, Elizabeth II, had died at the age of 96. 

The Queen is our longest reigning monarch and was on the throne for 70 years.  You can find out all about her life and reign in a special article on the BBC’s Newsround website.

You might also like to check out this special edition of the Sky Kids children’s new series FYI, recommended by First News, a weekly newspaper for children to which the Library subscribes. Presented by children, this programme includes accounts from children who actually met the Queen, as well as advice from experts on how to deal with being upset about the news of the Queen’s death.  Click here to view.

Welcome back!

Welcome to our new Year 7s and new members of staff and welcome back to the rest of our EPHS students and staff! We are really looking forward to seeing you all back in the Libraries and meeting all our new starters.

Congratulations to our first cohort of GCSE students, some of whom will be joining our brand new EPHS Sixth Form.  

We hope that everyone has found time to read over the Summer and we will be creating a display of postcards in the Lower Library with your book recommendations.  Email Mrs Nolan at cnolan@eph.e21c.co.uk  with what you were reading or pop along to the Lower Library and fill in a postcard