Award winning TRS student donates £250 to TRS Libraries

One of last year's TRS Jack Petchey achievement award winners, avid reader and regular Library user Oscar (now 9 Gauss), has chosen to use his award money to buy books for the Libraries.  The award recognises outstanding young people between the ages of 11-25 throughout London and Essex. 

Oscar with the his chosen books.

The books, which Oscar chose in consultation with the Librarians, are largely fiction, with a small selection of graphic novels, and are available for you to borrow from the Discovery and War Memorial Libraries. 

A selection of Oscar's books in the Discovery Library

Thank you Oscar!  Come and browse and borrow the collection!

Man Booker Shortlist 2018

The Man Booker Prize is awarded each year for fiction and is open to authors writing in English, regardless of their nationality, and published in the UK and Ireland.

The six books on this year's shortlist are:

The Man Booker Shortlist 2018

• Milkman by Anna Burns 
• Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
• Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• The Long Take by Robin Robertson

The winner of the year's Man Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday, 16th October.

Previous Man Booker Prize winners and shortlisted titles are available to borrow from the War Memorial Library.

Post-a-Read 2018

Thank you to the students and staff who told us what they were reading over the summer holidays as part of our Post-A-Read Competition. We've had postcards from Dubrovnik to Norkfolk and Florida to Pompeii, with lots of excellent book recommendations!  All the students who sent us a postcard have been awarded achievement points.

Come and have a look at our display, which is on the noticeboard outside the Discovery Library.  Remember, we are a reading school, so feel free to ask you teachers what they are reading!

Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on Why We Need Libraries

Champions of reading for pleasure and libraries, Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell have created an inspiring, beautiful and heartfelt essay using words and illustrations on the why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming.

Both are amazing award winning authors and illustrators, who understand the fundamental importance of cultivating, enabling and allowing our children to read for pleasure and the crucial role that librarians and libraries play in this.  To read their essay for yourself on The Guardian website click here.

Words by Neil Gaiman and illustrations by Chris Riddell
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/sep/06/neil-gaiman-and-chris-riddell-on-why-we-need-libraries-an-essay-in-pictures

Roald Dahl Day 2018

13th September is Roald Dahl Day, and this year marks 101 years since his birth!  As well as a being a marvellous author, Roald Dahl was also a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and a medical inventor. We have a great collection of his books, including The Twits and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as well as his autobiographies, poetry and fascinating facts about the author in the Discovery Library.

If you like Roald Dahl, why not try one of the David Walliams novels, such as Mr Stink and Gangsta Granny.