Axminster Library

🌟An extra special Bounce and Rhyme happening this Thursday!🌟

Come along for a special story, rhyme and play session with Dominique on Thursday 18th June. You can also get a FREE Book Start Toddler or Pre-Schooler pack for children under 5 if you come. It's going to be lots of fun!

Thursday 18th June
9.30am - 10.30am
FREE
All welcome
Axminster Library

Alice is reading 'Remarkably Bright Creatures' by Shelby Van Pelt this month before she watches the film (as we all know the book is always better! 🤭)

What about you?

We need someone to regularly look after and tidy up our garden space - can you help us? 🙏🏡🪴

We would really like to open up our garden space for the summer but it needs a bit of TLC. Your tasks would be to sweep up, w**d a little, sow seeds, plant plants and just make it look pretty! Not any heavy duty tasks if not suited to. An hour or so here and there when we are open would help us out so much!

If you are interested or know anyone who would be, please email us at [email protected]

Thanks!!

Katherine will be coming back during Bounce and Rhyme this week to answer any questions you may have about your child's speech development or anything else you need you help with!

Thursday 11th June
9.30am - 10.30am
Axminster Library
FREE

It's National Crime Reading Month! 🚓📚

Crime is our most popular genre here in Axminster (I don't know what that tells you!😬) so we have plenty to choose from.

We have a new member of staff who joined us a few weeks ago so you'll be seeing what she reads now too! 🌟

This month Marie is reading The Only Suspect by Louise Candlish. 📖

Let us know what you're reading!

Can you help us share the books everyone wants to read this month? 📚

There’s high demand for our 10 most wanted titles, and many eager customers are waiting to borrow them. We’ve purchased as many copies as our budget allows, but if you’re able to help, we’d be truly grateful.

If you have a pristine copy, you’ve finished reading - whether it’s one you bought yourself or received as a gift - you can donate it at any library in Devon or Torbay. We’ll add it to our collection to help reduce the waiting list.

Thank you so much for your support! 💚

Our 10 most popular titles this month are:

1. The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
2. Land by Maggie O'Farrell
3. Ironwood by Michael Connelly
4. Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
5. The Midnight Train by Matt Haig
6. Whistler by Ann Patchett
7. The Names by Florence Knapp
8. The Final Target by Nora Roberts
9. London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
10. Enough by Dawn French

We love our volunteers! We've made little gift bags for them to show them how much we appreciate them! 😁💚

Happy Volunteers’ Week! 💚🥳 This week, we are celebrating our amazing library volunteers. Thank you for gifting your time and expertise to our libraries.

Volunteers bring so much to our libraries; they make a real difference to their local communities. We are grateful to all of our invaluable volunteers. Your dedication, kindness and passion inspire us every day!

Stay tuned this week as we share our Libraries Unlimited Volunteer Awards winners 2026!

Alice Ealdmoor, our Volunteering Development Manager, shared: “This is my first Volunteers' Week with Libraries Unlimited and I feel very lucky to be working alongside such a dedicated group of volunteers. In just a few months, I have been struck by the zeal and commitment so evident in everyone I meet across the charity, but especially the volunteer teams. It has been a pleasure to be a part of the 2026 Libraries Unlimited Volunteer Awards; every individual nomination was inspiring and altogether they show how volunteering really is enriching lives and building communities across Devon and Torbay.”

A fabulous time spent last Tuesday creating clay creatures with Anna! 🐢🐡🏺

Thanks all for coming!

Coming to our catalogue this June! 💚

Can’t find a book on the library’s shelves? Order it from our online catalogue and have it delivered to the library.