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It's Day 24 of #BookAdventCalendar and fittingly it's The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald. #YuleLoveIt

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It's Day 23 of #BookAdventCalendar and it's The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier - Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle. #YuleLoveIt

Day 22 of our #BookAdventCalendar with Under Your Spell by Laura Wood - a lovely romantic treat. #YuleLoveIt

Day 21 of #BookAdventCalendar - it's the perenially popular Stephen Fry with Odyssey - can a hero find his way home? #YuleLoveIt

Day 20 of #BookAdventCalendar is The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina - an evocative and atmospheric read. #YuleLoveIt

Day 19 of our #BookAdventCalendar and it's The Book of Secrets by Anna Mazzola. It's another brilliant historical read, #YuleLoveIt

It's Day 18 of our Book Advent Calendar and it's The Paris Peacemakers by Flora Johnston. It's a compelling and powerful story set in Scotland and France in 1919, in the aftermath of the First World War. @florajowriter #BookAdventCalendar #YuleLoveIt

It's Day 17 of our Book Advent Calendar! 🎄We've got another musical memoir for you this time with Under a Rock by Chris Stein 📖 #YuleLoveIt #BookAdventCalendar @chrissteinplays

We're onto Day 16 of #BookAdventCalendar and with it we have the brilliant 'The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne' by Freya North 📖 When your present meets your past, what do you take with you - and what do you leave behind? #YuleLoveIt @freya_north

Just in time for Christmas is the CD Preservation Society in The SoundGallery at Gateshead Central Library today from 5pm. Tonight it’s Free’s Fire and Water with the classic All Right Now.

More #ReadingHou festive fiction now with Lovelight by B.K. Borison. Stella tries to save the Christmas tree farm she's loved since childhood by winning a competition cash prize. She's said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. But there is no boyfriend. Enter Luka...

Some more #ReadingHour crime now with local author Trevor Wood and The Silent Killer. DCI Jack Parker has faced tough cases but now a serial killer stalks the streets of Newcastle, one of his closest colleagues is dead and he's got early onset dementia - really gripping!

And now it's our first festive read recommendation for #ReadingHour with Make My Wish Come True by Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick. Teen actor Arden's messy reputation is damaging her career. Can fake dating her childhood best friend help? And is it all fake?

First up for #ReadingHour, it's The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose. Molly the maid sees everything at The Regency Grand Hotel. When a famous mystery writer drops very dead on the tearoom floor it's up to Molly to mop up the clues. Entertaining!

Morning! Welcome to #ReadingHour. This week we've mostly been reading either #crimefiction or #festivereads - how about you? Let us know!

Day 12 of #BookAdventCalendar sees our first children's book - Twice Upon A Time by Michelle Harrison - a gripping adventure mystery. #YuleLoveIt @MHarrison13

‘Share The Light’ for Spellow Library 📚✨ Gateshead Central Library is among more than 120 libraries across the country lighting up tonight (11 December) to celebrate the reopening of a Liverpool library that was torched during the racist riots in the summer. #ShareTheLight

It's Day 11 of our #BookAdventCalendar with Nature's Ghosts by Sophie Yeo @some_yeo. Sophie was at Gateshead Central Library last week talking about her book and answering some great audience questions! #YuleLoveIt