Kickstart your business
Need help on your business journey? We’ve teamed up with the Business and IP centre to provide you with practical tips to kickstart your business. The free, accessible workshops are for new and existing London-based business owners across the capital. We will guide you through the considerations of starting a business and the hurdles you may encounter, as well as how to utilise the BIPC's resources to protect your intellectual property.
Edmonton Green Library is hosting two workshops on August 6, 10am to 3pm and August 6,10am to 5pm run by the BIPC teaching you how to kickstart your business idea. Sign up by clicking on the links above. More Workshops with the BIPC will be coming up soon, so watch this space.
As part of this partnership, Enfield Library users will have access to COBRA, the Complete Business Reference Advisor, which offers everything you need from starting to developing your business. Enfield library members get free access to factsheets, market reports, contacts, funding sources and support. You can also get hundreds of practical guides for starting more than 350 types of businesses.
South Asian Heritage Month
- What is South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM)? - SAHM was established to honour, mark and appreciate South Asian history and culture, as well as to better comprehend the various heritage of countries and South Asia.
- When is SAHM? - SAHM runs from 18 July to 17 August every year and was first launched in 2019.
- Which countries make up South Asia? - South Asia comprises of eight countries; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- How can you celebrate SAHM? - Celebrate SAHM at Enfield Libraries by celebrating South Asian stories and storytellers. All the books on display are written by authors of South Asian heritage, and they are all available for you to borrow at the counter or the self-service machine.
Happy SAHM!
We at Enfield Libraries are celebrating South Asian Heritage Month by championing South Asian stories and South Asian storytellers. We have put together a display filled with books from across genres written exclusively by authors of South Asian heritage, which are all available for you to borrow! Head into Palmers Green Library and see the display, located on the First Floor, first hand. Make sure to borrow a book or two (or three or four…) from the display at the counter or the self-service machine and do your part to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month this year!
Read more and see the display on our blog.
New regular events
Free English Conversation Club
For English beginning learners who want to improve their speaking and listening skills is a friendly environment. Please speak to a staff member for more information.
Tuesday 2pm to 3:30pm
Palmers Green Library
Broomfield Lane
Palmers Green
N14 4EY
Tel: 020 8379 2727
Terrific Tuesdays
For 6 to 10 year olds to:
- be creative
- build great friendships
- explore our feelings
- do what we love and have fun
- think about how we get our ideas across
- explore our talents and culture
At Edmonton Green Library on 6, 20, 27 August and 3 September, 10 to 11am.
New one-off events
Make a memory patchwork wall
- Free crafts
- Suitable for ages 5+ (limited spaces available)
- Call 020 8379 2727 to book your spot - your spot may be given away if you are more than 15 minutes late
At Oakwood Library on 7 August from 10:30 to 11:30am and Palmers Green Library on 9 August from 10:30 to 11:30am.
Check out these upcoming August craft events as well, as part of the Summer Reading Challenge: Marvellous Makers!
- Story Crafting Workshop (ages 8+) 12 August from 3 to 4:30pm at Ordnance Unity Centre
- Tote Bag Decorating - (ages 5+) 19 August from 11am to 12:30pm at Ordnance Unity Centre
- Create a Crystal Heart - (ages 5+) 23 August from 10:30 to 11:30am at Palmers Green
- LEGO Club Special - (all ages) 30 August from 3 to 5pm at Ordnance Unity Centre
New in...for children
Toddler books
Bear’s Wash Day by Nicola Kent
With flaps, wheels and a slider, your little ones can learn about household tasks in a fun way as they follow Bear and his friend around the house.
The perfect exploration of grown-up tasks for tiny tots!
Picture books
Zeki Eats Out by Anna Mcquinn
Zeki has been playing 'restaurant' with his toys but he is now going to a real restaurant with Daddy and Nana G.
Find out where he sits, what he eats and how he behaves.
Dyslexia Friendly Junior fiction
Reek by Alastair ChisholmSparrow lives in the world after the Reek, when the climate catastrophe left the people of Earth fighting for oxygen. The atmosphere is poisoned and Axel Brodie, the tech billionaire, controls the supply of clean air.
Sparrow’s brilliant friend, Miriam Fenn, invents technology that could break Brodie’s monopoly on the air supply but he is powerful and hard to defeat. Brodie will do everything in his power to stop Miriam and Sparrow.
Who will win this battle to breathe?
Junior Fiction
Three Cheers for The River School by Sabine Adeyinka
The final of the trilogy set in a Nigerian boarding school.
Jummy has been looking to the new term and to playing football but it has been banned! Instead, the girls have to host a music competition that the rival boys' school is likely to win.
Will Jummy and her friends come up with a successful plan in time?
New in...for teens and adults
Older Teen Fiction
The Thread That Connects Us by Ayaan Mohamud
Safiya’s dad left them and moved to Somalia. She has no faith in love, despite liking boy-next-door Yusuf. Then her dad moves back to town with his new family, devastating her again. Halima resents her stepdad for moving the family to England, where she is without her friends and is bullied.
When the girls come together at school, they hate each other.
But as they discover their parents' secrets, they begin to realise that the solution to their problems may lie in their sisterhood…
Non-fiction
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
In 'The Nineties', cult author Chuck Klosterman makes a home in every element of 90s culture - the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan.
In perhaps no other book ever written could the sentence, 'The video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany' make complete sense.
Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis that's equal parts smart and delightful.
The Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne
Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation by focusing on the main characters of the eight major dynasties.
He starts with myth and goes on to the greatest achievements of language and ideas, cultural treasures, wars won and lands lost to the Mongols.
He finally arrives at the 1912 Revolution, which contained within it the seeds of Communism and the overthrow of the last emperor.
Gascoigne sheds light on an empire and its peoples which were, for centuries, inaccessible to the West.
Crime
Gaslight by Femi Kayode
Jeremiah Dawodu, Bishop of a Nigerian megachurch, is arrested at the pulpit for the murder of his beloved young and prominent wife, Folasade. The arrest is televised all around Lagos and the community is shocked.
The Bishop maintains his innocence and his congregation believe him but his wife remains missing.
Philip Taiwo, compassionate investigative psychologist, investigates.
However, as he searches for Folasade, his own beloved family begins to show cracks...
Fiction
Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong
A suspenseful and disturbing story of a man found dead on the beach in a village which has had its fair share of strange happenings.
After months of unsuccessful investigation, the stranger is buried in an unmarked grave, but the mystery of his life and death remains.
Different voices come together to unravel the story of the man and a portrait emerges, threaded by lives both true and imagined, real and surreal, past and present.
The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
Five-year-old Samuel Adler’s father disappears during Kristallnacht in Vienna 1938. His mother secures transport for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone.
Seven-year-old Anita Diaz and her mother board a train to Arizona in 2019, fleeing danger in El Salvador and seeking refuge in the US. They are separated and Anita finds herself alone at a camp in Nogales.
The two characters’ tales are interwoven as is the past and present.
It is a testament to the sacrifices that parents make and a love letter to the children who survive the most unfathomable dangers.
You can also download our Enfield Libraries August 2024 newsletter (PDF, 1773.45 KB).