Welcome to 2025, and what we hope will be another fantastic year of reading for everyone at KWS!

We’re delighted to welcome all of our students and staff back into the library for 2025, and we hope everyone has a wonderful year of book-related adventures ahead.

As well as encouraging our students to enjoying reading and to develop a lifelong love of books, the staff team at KWS also like to lead by example. We run a regular staff book club, with many members of the team meeting to discuss the chosen book for that half term.

We recently read Soniah Kamal’s book Unmarriageable, as part of Islamophobia Awareness month. It’s a modern-day retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with the re-imagined versions of the original characters easy to spot despite the book being set in Pakistan. It’s a colourful and vibrant story, and was well received by many of our book club members.

Next up is Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton. This is described as “a humorous, big-hearted, and boundlessly beautiful romp through the apocalypse and the world that comes after, where even a cowardly crow can become a hero.” It’s clearly a very different genre of book to Unmarriageable, so we shall see what we all make of it at the next book club meeting in February.