Staff Reading Journey

Library staff have been doing loads of reading over the last few months and some of them have been discussing their books on our forum- 'Book Chat', which is attached to this blog. If you want to chat with us then just click the tab at the top of this page and either post as an unregistered user or join (makes it easier to post regularly).
Also look out for our Staff Reading Journey posters on display in the Library. You can see whether anything we've read would interest you. I'll post some of the images on here in the next few weeks. 
Happy reading...

Library Competitions

The Library at Northampton College is running some fantastic competitions at the moment. You can choose from:

 

Short Story and Book Review Competition

• If you would like to enter please submit one story of a maximum of 1500 words on any subject you wish or
• a book review with a maximum of 500 words on a book you have read recently

Photography Competition

• If you would like to enter please submit one photograph, size A4, on the subject of 'College Architecture'

The deadline for both competitions is April 2nd 2012. You will need to attach an entry form to each submission, which you can download from the library website or pick up from any of the College Library sites.
Good luck to all who enter, we look forward to seeing the results!!
http://library.northamptoncollege.ac.uk/

Short Story winners

A big well done to all the people who took part in this year's Short Story Competition. There were a lot of entries and the judges had a tricky time deciding on the winners, due to the high standard of the writing. But this decision had to be made and so here they are.
1st Prize- New Kitchen (author has decided to remain anonymous)
2nd Prize- A Dream of Freedom (Corrinne Bosworth)
3rd Prize- Laura's Never Treasure (Claire Durbin)

Here is an extract from the winning entry.
Domestic disharmony turns into something more sinister in New Kitchen
"Poor downtrodden George, all he wanted was a calm and content home life, well maybe not the content part. George never expected much from life, but if only Kitty would stop cheeping in his ear incessantly, day in, day out. It never stopped, she wouldn't stop and he was sure she couldn't."

Good job everyone, look forward to reading next year's entries.