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The tuk-tuk on campus - come say hello when it next visits!

Looking for fun fiction and pleasure reading? The public library tuk-tuk truck is visiting the campus twice in two weeks!

The public library offers a vast collection of fiction and popular nonfiction that goes far beyond what is taught at the University and therefore is beyond what the University Library can hope to offer. If you love listening to audiobooks (fact and fiction), browsing digital magazines (do check out our PressReader app as well!), and reading fiction in print or downloading novels to read on your ebook reader, you will love the free collections available from your local public library.

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The tuk-tuk on campus - come say hello when it next visits!

Looking to read more for pleasure? Fan of fiction? Love listening to audiobooks? You’ll love your local public library!

The only thing you might love more is that they are coming to campus to save you visiting them to join. The Library tuk-tuk van is visiting on 13 May for Feel Good Fest and 18 May for Global Week, signing up new members for free and sharing the vast print, electronic and audiobook collections of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines the public library has to offer.

They would love to meet you, and we feel sure you would love what they have to offer!

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Our ever popular Blind date with a book event is back and this time we have given it a romantic twist in the run up to Valentine’s Day. Borrow one of our specially wrapped, hand picked books we think you might love from the Library Atrium and discover something you might not otherwise ever have read.

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7 February is Charles Dickens Day, when we celebrate Portsmouth’s most famous Victorian author. Born to a Victorian Portsmouth in 1812, the son of a naval payroll clerk, Charles Dickens was prodigiously industrious and despite an interrupted schooling, enjoyed a …

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The Invisible Story by Jaime Gamboa & Wen Hsu Chen

Award winning children’s book publisher Lantana have just announced that The Invisible Story has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2025 in the illustration category, which is fantastic news for this wonderful book. The Invisible Story was the subject of our recent exhibition relating …

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