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Office and phone line closures during festive bank holidays

Our offices and phone lines will be closed between 25-27 December and 1 January. For emergencies please check our out of hours numbers.

Libraries/community centres - Christmas and New Year opening times

There will be changes to our opening times during the festive period - get more details.

Events, news and reading

We work in partnership with national and local organisations to bring you a range of exciting activities and initiatives to support reading, learning and community life in Leicester.

 

Book News newsletters
Our newsletters have information about events, activities and the exciting books we have on our shelves.

Third Tuesday @Central 

Third Tuesday is a regular programme of author talks, writing workshops and other reading events taking place at Central Library. Find out more here

Events and activities for children and young people

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Reading groups 

A reading group is an exciting opportunity to get together with others, to try authors and titles you might not have considered and share your thoughts about books. For further details, visit our reading groups section. 

Booklists 

We frequently produce booklists to help our members find the books they love. Lists we have produced have including crime fiction, great books for 11+ year olds and 'ghostly and gruesome'. We aim to give our readers a sample of the great books we have. 

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