At Calibre we’re fighting back against the January blues by listening to some of the most inspirational stories from incredible people, so if you’re in need of a spark of inspiration or want to learn how to regain motivation for workouts or the year ahead, limber up, take your pick from this selection and prepare for a grueling adventure.

Following Calibre Audio being recently added to the Dolphin EasyReader app, we are delighted to invite our members to an exclusive free webinar. Join Dave Salisbury and Colin Shales from Dolphin and Emma Scott from Calibre Audio to discover how to use the EasyReader app to find, download and read titles from Calibre Audio.

An unexpected Christmas gift to Calibre that has resulted in some new and exciting books being added to our collection. 

This month’s new books list has something for every age group, and even some that can be enjoyed by adults too. We are especially excited about a particular offering for our youngest members - The Big Mog Collection by Judith Kerr, about Mog, the much loved cat.

This month’s new books list is choc full of crowd pleasers, including a handful of love stories and family sagas.

Not an exhortation to reinvent yourself in the style of a New Year, New You magazine article, but simply a chance to gather together an interesting collection of Calibre books related to making a new start, or being forced to move on to a new country, or a new way of life.

For those of you bursting to know the answer to the one question you couldn't get, we're happy to oblige! Here's the answers to our Christmas Family Quiz 2020.

12 festive and captivating books to read over the Christmas season. With best wishes for Christmas from us to you!

Winter is here, and don’t we know it, and what could be nicer than sitting in the warm whilst reading a book where a cold, wintry environment plays as much a part of the story as any of the characters.

We may not have many new books for young people going into the library this month, but to make up for it every single one is an absolute cracker! Although primarily aimed at Key Stage 2, I defy anyone not to enjoy them, even the grown-ups.

This month our list of new books is especially rich in contemporary fiction, 20th century classics and crime.

Two new books by Alex Wheatle, some fantasy fiction with a Celtic twist and a book containing four short stories about a family of mice living in Brambly Hedge. Our November books really have provided for all!

Non-fiction titles are to the fore again this month with books on food, cricket, football, nature, travel, and philosophy. Couple them with some cracking good fiction, and there's something for everyone.

With Halloween on Saturday, we've searched the library for some book suggestions that will have you quaking in your boots, hiding behind your sofa, avoiding black cats on your walk to school or failing that, curling up on the sofa with a hot chocolate ready for a spookingly good read!

If you’ve started GCSE English this year, you may have been given a pretty big reading list! But don't worry, we have many of these texts in our audiobook collection and are here to help you stay on top of your workload so you can focus in the classroom.

October is Black History Month in the UK, a time to celebrate the culture, history and achievement of Britain’s African and Caribbean communities. Across the country a wide variety of events are being held, from exhibitions of art and photography, to film screenings and poetry workshops.

A round up of all the new books that we have recently added to our collection, specifically for children and young members.

If you're in need of a laugh (and who isn't) then this month we have just the thing with two new books in the Mr Majeika series and a new Diary of a Wimpy Kid!

As part of Libraries Week, we spoke to Calibre Audio member and author Lynne Reid Banks about one of the books that helped shape her world.

With autumn now officially here, we have a bumper harvest of new books going into the library this month.

Banned Books Week UK is a nationwide campaign held in the last week of September to celebrate the freedom to read.

Today is National Poetry Day, the perfect opportunity to either embark on a deeper exploration of the subject, or just dip your toe in the water. Here are some the wonderful poetry books that we have added to our collection this year.

There seems to be a bit of a theme emerging in our new fiction for younger members this month with tales of swapping or choosing family members, rather than having to put up with the ones you’ve got.

Although the high temperatures and blazing sun of this summer are beginning to fade like a dream, we can console ourselves with the prospect of spending more time reading as the days draw in, not that we need an excuse to enjoy a good book! This month’s list of new books is a great place to start with a selection of non-fiction, horror and contemporary fiction to choose from.

This Roald Dahl day find out exactly how much you know about his books with our whizzpopping quiz...

With school still a distant memory, and the new term a little while off, it’s time to listen to some great stories before the compulsory reading list appears on the horizon!

With another month comes another intriguing and entertaining selection of new books for the Calibre library.

Tradition demands that now July is here, we should all be enjoying the quintessentially British pastimes of cricket and tennis, relaxing in the summer sunshine with our strawberries and cream and glasses of Pimms.

It’s a new month, with new books, and we have a new author for you to try whose tale of an extraordinary gorilla sailing the high seas has been described as providing ‘several hours of joy’ by no less than Philip Pullman...

The Black Lives Matter movement has left a lot of people wanting to better understand what it means to be black in a society where white privilege is the norm. To support this, we've been adding new black authors to our diverse collection of audiobooks.

This month we have a great selection of non-fiction titles to suit even the most jaded reader, and more! See the full list here for books on the environment, sport, pop culture, self-help, and biographies.

For the second week of Hi VIS Fortnight 2020 we are highlighting the BBC’s list of 100 ‘Novels that Shaped the World’ which can be accessed in alternative formats.

Our new books for young people this month include one from this year's Greenaway Prize shortlist and wait for it - two books about poo written by members of the band McFly in their hugely successful Dinosaur books. I think it's fair to say we have something for everyone!

Summer is here, so why not put your feet up and get stuck into some of the new books on offer this month. We have a tremendous selection for you to choose from, despite the fact most of us are working from home, all thanks to the magic of technology.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, readers are being asked to vote for their favourite of the past 24 winners, and to join in the conversation around the amazing prize winning books on the list.

Here is a complete list of the children and young adult books that we have added to our collection so far this year.

This month we have a real mix of titles from a football legend, a fairytale adventure in a world of mermaids and pirates and a hilarious tale about the Bolds, a family of hyenas in disguise...

We may all be in lockdown but Calibre staff are working as hard as ever to add new books to the library, whilst maintaining their social distance, of course. This month’s offer may be fewer in number but the range and interest are as good as ever.....

April 23rd, what a day! Not only is it St George’s Day and Shakespeare’s birthday but it’s also a time to celebrate books, and for sharing the benefits that reading for pleasure has on our lives. Something that is more important than ever in these times of social isolation.

For those of you who are able to entertain yourselves at this time of increased leisure time (for some) by watching films, here are some suggestions of screen adaptations of books that have caused some controversy.

It’s Easter, the chocoholics’ favourite time of year! So we have put together some books themed around Easter, featuring easter eggs, easter bunnies and chocolate galore...

There are some tasty treats for April from the latest titles added to the Calibre children’s collection....

The new crop of books we’ve added to the Library over the last month is so chock-full of brilliant titles that we're having trouble limiting our list of highlights to a manageable number....

Keep your young people occupied with our vast collection of childrens books - all free to stream to your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Discover our new selection of March titles for chidren and young people, all now available to borrow.

One of the latest offerings from Netflix which has got everyone talking is The Stranger but did you know this was based on a book by Harlan Coben?

2020 is set to be a bumper year of bestsellers and classics getting the onscreen treatment, be it television adaptations or big budget movies.

Women in Science Day gives us the opportunity to stop and look at those women who played pioneering roles in an industry that has historically been, and still is, dominated by men. Lets's celebrate the women in these books as role models for young women and girls today....

Following on from this fascinating BBC video article about a small town in India which is home to hundreds of pairs of twins, we have searched out 8 of our best books about twins