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The Summer Reading Challenge is now in full swing – but you can join at the library right up to Saturday 3 September. Children aged four-12 get a special wallet, stickers to collect and – if they read six books – a certificate, a mini frisbee and a medal. Under 4s can also join a…

Thursday 10 August, 6.30pm This month’s book is Night Train (1997) by Martin Amis, son of Kingsley Amis, who became Sir Martin just before he died this year. It’s a comedy parody of American detective novels. (Female) veteran detective Mike Hoolihan re-investigates the case of a friend’s daughter who committed suicide… or did she? Pick…

  On  May 22nd Naomi Clifford, a historian from our community well known to Friends of Tate South Lambeth Library, will be discussing her recently published book Out of the Shadows This is a collection of essays on the work of 19th century societies to aid discharged women prisoners. Naomi focuses in particular on Susanna…

May 15th will see the second of the series of guided local nature and heritage walks setting off from Tate South Lambeth Library. The walk includes a tour and visit to ’Roots & Shoots’, an inspirational long-established local charity in Kennington that trains people in landscape skills. It is based at a site on Walnut…

On Saturday 10 June from 10am-4pm, Tate South Lambeth Library will have something for all ages – festivities, food, music and fun for all the family in an international celebration for the Portuguese community. Activities all day, with children’s crafts from 2pm.

May 2nd will see the first of a series of guided local history walks setting off from Tate South Lambeth Library. This walk includes a guided tour of the Lambeth Palace Archives and a visit to the current exhibition  “A Declaration of our hopes for the future” -Coronations from the Middle Ages to the present…

Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday May 11th  at 6.30 to 8pm. This month we’ll be discussing The Trees by Percival Everett. A series of brutal murders take place in  a small town in Mississippi. These present a puzzle – in each case there is a second dead body, which resembles…

Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday 13th April from 6.30- 8pm. This month we’ll be discussing Mr Loverman by Bernardino Evaristo A story set in Britain’s older Caribbean community, which shows how people fear the consequences of being true to themselves. Pick up your copy at the library. Come along and…

February will see two special events at the library  to mark LGBTQ+ History Month – a fair and a film screening

Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday February 14th at 6.30 to 8pm. This month the book we’ll be discussing is Trumpet, the first novel by Jackie Kay, Scotland’s Makar (national poet) and winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize. The death of a legendary jazz trumpeter exposes an intricate lie unknown to…

Simon Keable-Elliott talks about his recently published biography of his grandfather on Wednesday January 18th at 7pm ( doors open at 6.30) Slated by critics, dubbed ‘utterly immoral’ by F Scott Fitzgerald and mocked in The Great Gatsby, Robert Keable’s novel Simon Called Peter became a worldwide bestseller in the 1920s. It was turned into a…

  Tate South Lambeth’s next reading group session is on Thursday January 12th  at 6.30 to 8pm. This month the book we’ll be discussing is Small Things like These, the Booker prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan.   It is 1985, in an Irish town. A local coal and timber merchant feels the past – the…