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We’ve some more book recommendations for you today as part of Black History Month. Today’s recommendations are books for children and come from library user Fadzi. Here’s what she has to to suggest: “S P K Mushambi who writes delightful

As you may know it is Black History Month, and here at FOLIO we’ve been having really interesting conversations with some of our supporters who are Black or who have African and/or Caribbean heritage about great books they’d like to

FOLIO Sutton Coldfield is delighted to welcome Dr Mike Hodder for our first public online event, an illustrated talk about the archaeology of Sutton Park. Dr Mike Hodder was born in Sutton Coldfield and he has been researching the archaeology

An epic, romantic and mesmerising quest for (almost) mythical treasure, spanning more than 250 years, replete with curious characters, terrible evil and despair, incredible generosity and stunningly beautiful landscapes, this page-turner is not an all-consuming novel but a breathtaking, astonishing

A page turner that allows you to imagine a parallel life, who you might be and whether you could really cope in a new life without any links to the old, Gillian McAllister’s How to Disappear is escapism on every

This can be one of the most important non fiction novel for the modern time. Since the evolution of internet, we have seen an overload of information and opportunities. Today saying being busy makes you sound cool. But are we

Have you ever imagined how your life might have turned out if you had taken a different decision at some point? If you had taken a job you turned down? Said no to something you didn’t really want to do

A wonderfully atmospheric moody window into a brief moment of time, with glorious utterly, believable characterisation, Summerwater by Sarah Moss is like a film in slow motion, with a growing sense of trepidation as you move towards the final moments

2020 isn’t proving to be an easy time to remain optimistic. But if you’re looking for something that might help you feel hopeful, Humankind by Rutger Bregman, part philosophy book, part call to arms, is a stimulating and easy-to-read place

There are many things we use all the time without really paying attention to them. That’s normal and even helpful a lot of the time; life would slow down impossibly if we couldn’t move relatively seamlessly through certain tasks or