Aylsham Library

22/10/2026

We will be there. 🧡

💚 ONE TOWN. LOTS OF SUPPORT. ALL UNDER ONE ROOF.

There's just two days to go until Aylsham's Healthy Town Event!

From fitness and healthy living to caring for loved ones, local healthcare, emotional wellbeing and practical support, there will be plenty to discover.

Local organisations will be there to answer questions, share information and help you find out what's available in our community.

And don't forget:
☕ Free café
👕 Second-hand Aylsham High School uniform for sale
💚 Completely free entry
📅 Saturday 24 October | 10am–1pm
📍 Aylsham Town Hall

No need to book. Just come along!

22/10/2026

𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 📚

The story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires.

💧Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets.

💧Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until - betrayed and brokenhearted - she must turn to the person she thought she needed least.

💧Omelogor, Chiamaka's bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself.

💧And Kadiatou, Chiamaka's housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America - but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.

Available in paperback, e-book, CD, hardback

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22/10/2026

Gilly and Caspar are not with us today but will be back next week. 🐾

21/10/2026

𝗙𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 🌹

We are delighted to share that we are starting a new 'Fantasy Book Group' on the 2nd of November.

This fabulous weekly get together will focus on fantasy fiction with a monthly book and discussion but there will be creative collage as well.

The first book is 'Phantasma' 🌹💀🌹

When Ophelia's sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize - a single wish.

In a maze of twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, Ophelia will face nine challenges, each more dangerous than the last. Just as fear threatens to overwhelm her, a mysterious stranger offers her a bargain.

Charming, arrogant and infuriatingly attractive, Blackwell claims he can guide her through the lethal trials ahead. Ophelia knows she shouldn't trust Blackwell.

Worse still, she feels a dark and irresistible attraction drawing them closer and closer. And in Phantasma, the only thing deadlier than losing the game is losing your heart.

Reading, chatting and crafting - the perfect mix!

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We hope you will join us and our
new volunteer Charlotte.

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📆 Every Monday

⏰ 5 - 6pm

🎟️ Drop in and enjoy

👛 50p per session, all materials provided

* Please note that this is an adult only group due to the potential subject matter.

Image description: A photo of a fantasy book with a skull and a locket on the front cover with red roses around it.

21/10/2026

The crochet group were making pumpkins last night. We couldn't help but smile at the joy. 🧡

19/10/2026

It's nearly time for the Aylsham Town Read. 📖

This special partnership event with our friends at The Book Hive is when we turn our wonderful town into the biggest book group of all!

Join them on Wednesday the 25th of November in the Friendship Hall for the sixth where they will be in discussion with author Jeremy Page discussing his freshly re-issued title 'New York to California', one man’s poignant journey across the East of England.
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Novelist, traveller, scriptwriter, photographer: Jeremy Page is a man with a broad view of wide horizons. But on approaching middle age, he experienced a calling to return to the place which he – and his ancestors – had called home.

Like the migratory eel, retracing a route back to somewhere it had once fought to leave, he decided to take a long, slow journey through a landscape both familiar but also separated by time and distance from his current life.

Starting in the tiny Lincolnshire fen-village of New York, Page sets off with an eccentric companion and a dog, following a similar path to his forebears – through fenland, along coastlines, into cities and across broads. His destination: another village with an improbable stateside name – California – on the East Norfolk coast.

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You can borrow a copy free from us shortly when our display is live or buy a copy from at a reduced price.

Just book your ticket for the meeting and prepare for a brilliant conversation between the author and your fellow readers.

📅 25th of November
⏰ Doors 6:30pm for a 7pm start
📍 The Friendship Hall
🎟️ To order a free ticket visit their Eventbrite page

Image description: A monochrome photo of the writer Jeremy Page, beside him is a copy of the book. There is an image of a holiday park bungalow with washing hung up outside.

19/10/2026

We have some spaces remaining on tomorrow's free' Creative Writing' hosted by The Healing Harbour Charity
2-4pm. 🖋️

19/10/2026

This week we would ❤️ to see you at any of these 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 sessions...

𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 10-7pm (Open Libraries Access 8-10am)
🚛 Book Delivery
🎵 Bounce and Rhyme with Anna 10:30-11am
🧸 Stay and Play 11am onwards
☕ Just A Cuppa 11-12pm with Carole sponsored by Kingsley Home Care - North Norfolk
🎴 Pokémon Club 3:30 - 4:30pm
📲 Digital Support with Rod 5 -7pm

𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 10-7pm (Open Libraries Access 8-10am)
💻 Tech Skills For Life with Erika drop in 11-2pm
🖋️ Creative Writing with The Healing Harbour Charity 2-4pm FREE just book with Library Staff
🧶 Crochet Club with 'Hooking 2 Help' 5-7pm

𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 2-7pm (Open Libraries Access 8-2pm)
🚛 Book Delivery
♟️ Aylsham Library Chess Club 10-12pm
🎲 Board Games for Families 3:30-5pm
🃏 Board Games for Adults 5-7pm

𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 10-7pm (Open Libraries Access 8-10am)
💐 Bereavement Cafe 10 - 11am with Carole
✂️ Adult Crafting Club with Louise - paper
🐾 Sorry no Gilly and Caspar this week

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 10-7pm (Open Libraries Access 8-10am)
📲 Digital Support with Rod 10:30-12:30pm
🎵Bounce and Rhyme with Ruth 10:30-11am
🧸Stay and Play 11am onwards
💠 Dementia Café 11-12pm volunteer led and supported by Co-op Market Square, Aylsham
📚 Storytime and Craft 3:30pm onwards with Richard and Cindy

𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 10-4pm (Open Libraries Access 8-10am)
✂️ Craft Time for children with Ann 10:30 -12pm
🟥 Lego Club 12pm onwards

𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 Open Libraries Access 10-4pm

We look forward to welcoming you.

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18/10/2026

𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗢𝗳 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 📚



Linus Baker is a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. 💫

He is given a curious and highly classified assignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six dangerous children reside - a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green blob, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist.

Linus must set aside his fears and determine whether or not they're likely to bring about the end of days...

Reserve a copy of 'The house in the Cerulean Sea' by TJ Klune today

This is available in paperback, e- audiobook and e-book from Norfolk Library and Information Service
You can visit our website or use our app to order it.

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17/10/2026

𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 (𝗣𝗟𝗥) 📚

Did you know that by borrowing books from Norfolk Libraries you are supporting your favourite authors like Heidi Swain Author L J Ross Author Ross Greenwood Roald Dahl Lee Child Elly Griffiths and Alison Weir to name a few. ❤️

The Public Lending Right (PLR) is a scheme that allows authors to be fairly paid for each loan when their work is borrowed through public libraries. The rate per loan is 11.76p (2023/2024) so authors can get anything from £1 to a maximum of £6,600.

The PLR figures are based on loans data collected from a sample of UK public libraries 1 July - 30 June every year. Norfolk Library and Information Service is a Public Lending Right sample library.

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