New Books April 2025
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during April. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
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Celebrating a local author
Nestled in our Quick Choice books collection in the new relaxation corner of the Library, you can find many fantastic reads; today I’d like to highlight one written by the mother of one of our students who published the novel Cry of the hornbill with one of India’s most reputable traditional publishers. Not only has Mrs Iqubal kindly donated a copy of her new book to the Library, but she agreed to tell us more about the writing process and becoming a published author.
Princh – printing at Portsmouth libraries
he cheapest way to print anything is always to use the University’s printing services but there might be times you need to print something vital and cannot make it in to the campus. Or perhaps someone you know who isn’t a student needs to print something in a hurry. That’s where the public library service comes to the rescue!
You can now print anything through your local public library at competitive prices using a simple new streamlined, cloud-based printing solution called Princh. Send your printing through the mobile app or website, pay, and tell Princh which public printer you want it printed for instant quality printing.
New Books March 2025
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during March. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
Look after yourself this Stress Awareness Month
One of the best ways to get a good night’s sleep is to establish a regular bedtime routine. Switching off screens, stretching, having a warm bath, and reading for pleasure for a few minutes are all excellent ways to wind down, release tension and let go of the concerns of the day. Of these, reading for pleasure is good for you! Reading for pleasure for just 30 minutes a week is associated with increased life satisfaction, self-esteem, better sleep, creativity and happiness, perhaps because it reminds us of our common humanity and reconnects us everything we are.
Public library popping up on campus
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.
Meet the travelling tuk-tuk!
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!
New Books February 2025
The following is a list of new books received by the Library during February. More complete listings for the year can be found on our website’s new books page.
Go on a blind date with a book this Valentine’s Day
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.
Happy Charles Dickens Day!
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 …
