Pollokshields Library holds the Glasgow Libraries record for the highest number of children taking part in the Tesco Bank Summer Reading Challenge in each of our 33 libraries. Last year a whopping 293 young people aged 0-12 took part in the Challenge.

Pollokshields Library is one of six Glasgow Libraries built thanks to Andrew Carnegie’s donation to the city of Glasgow.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman

This book was recommended to me by a borrower from Pollokshields Library and I’m so glad she did. I couldn’t put it down. It had me laughing out-loud, crying, wondering and feeling in shock. 

It’s a book full of courage, loneliness, humanness, kindness, compassion and trauma that has day to day things we all recognise ‘The Archers’, ‘Which’, crosswords. It was very refreshing, and I was completely taken to see someone’s blindness to their own faults in black and white – very amusing and jaw droppingly O..M…G!

I can’t wait to read it again see how the film turns out.

Eleanor drinking from her favourite mug:

“I purchased it in a charity shop some years ago, and it has a photograph of a moon-faced man. He is wearing a brown leather blouson. Along the top, in strange yellow font, it says ‘Top Gear’. I don’t profess to understand this mug. It holds the perfect amount of vodka, however, thereby obviating the need for frequent refills.”

Mary, Pollokshields Library