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HB Williams Memorial Library

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Christmas and New Year Open Hours

Thursday 18 December 2025

Summer Holiday Programme

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Nohongu Quiet Time

Tuesday 11 November 2025

LEGO Club

Monday 10 November 2025

Te Pihinga

Saturday 8 November 2025

He Kakano

Friday 7 November 2025

Justice of the Peace

Sunday 2 November 2025
Librarian Recommended Reads
Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation
by Eleanor Barnett
A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the life of food through preservation, the culinary reuse of leftovers and the recycling of food scraps
Some Strange Music Draws Me In
by Griffin Hansbury
Some Strange Music Draws Me In is a compassionate, gripping and emotionally charged narrative, peopled by an unforgettable cast of characters bound in electrifying relationships. Griffin Hansbury's elegant and fearless prose dares to explore taboos around gender and class as he offers a deeply moving portrait of friendship, family and a girlhood lived sideways.
Odyssey
by Stephen Fry
The Final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey—Can a hero find his way home? Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years—battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon—to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.
Wild Fictions: Essays
by Amitav Ghosh
Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed him over the last twenty-five years: literature and language; climate change and the environment; human lives, travel, and discoveries. The spaces that we inhabit, and the way in which we occupy them, is a constant thread throughout this striking and expansive collection.