Join Merton Libraries as they chat to Hafsa Zayyan, author of ‘We are all Birds of Uganda’ – the winning novel of the first #Merky Books New Writer’s Prize. Moving between two continents over a troubled century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is a multi-layered, moving and immensely resonant novel of generational love, loss and what it means to Read more…

Where the Crawdads Sing’ by Delia Owens We hope you enjoyed reading our first book!  Our book club discussion on Facebook will take place on Thursday, 14 May, from 7pm to 8pm.  Just go to our FB page Wimblecomm Virtual Book Club where you can find a list of book club questions and a poll to share your rating of Read more…

The Booker Shortlisted author will be discussing her new novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World – an intensely powerful novel about a young woman reflecting onlife after death. Elif is the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul, Three Daughers of Eve and The Forty Rules of Love. Elif Shafak is a twice TED Global speaker and Read more…