Something from the trolley?
Book Gems I’ve come across accidentally.
I love my job in the library. Not only do I work with
fantastic people and get to help wonderful library users, I have fallen in love
with so many books I would never have come across if it weren’t for the place I
work.
I frequently take advantage of the staff ‘perk’ of free
reservations to order in books I’ve heard about, seen advertised or had
recommended to me. As a result, I’ve managed to read a lot of great stuff.
However, I’ve also done a lot of unplanned reading that has been great too.
Books I’ve come across on the returns trolley or on a display shelf or in the
course of returning a title to its rightful place on the library shelf. I’ve discovered
some brilliant new fiction this way and some incredible new authors, but I’ve also,
and more interestingly, found some fantastic non-fiction titles too. Here are
just a few of those gems: