The English Library, Tenerife

A British institution in Puerto de la Cruz for over 100 years.

The English Library
Calle Irlanda 5, Parque Taoro
Puerto de la Cruz 38400
+34 922 383098
Opening Hours:
Wednesday & Saturday 10am-1pm

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Clinton and Patterson join forces for thriller

2nd September 2018 by Graham Taylor

FORMER US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton is jointly credited with best-selling author James Patterson in one of the highlighted new titles just added to the Library shelves, along with offerings from Robert Crais, Liz Lawler and Gail Honeyman.

The Promise

by Robert Crais

WHEN ELVIS COLE is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case – until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defence contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives.

Meanwhile, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to, locate a dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected. soon, Scott and Maggie find themselves targeted and, as their case intertwines with Elvis and Joe’s, they join forces to find the missing woman, not only before she is killed but before the same fate happens to one of them.

Don’t Wake Up

by Liz Lawler

ALEX TAYLOR WAKES UP tied to an operating table. The man who stands over her isn’t a doctor. The choice he forces her to make is utterly unspeakable but when Alex re-awakens, she’s unharmed – and no one believes her horrifying story.

Ostracised by her colleagues, her family and her partner, she begins to wonder if she really is losing her mind. And then she meets the next victim….

The President Is Missing

by Bill Clinton and James Patterson

‘CLINTON’S INSIDER SECRETS and James Patterson’s storytelling genius make this the political thriller of the decade,’ says Lee Child.

The Presidents disappears. The world is in shock. But the reason he’s missing is much worse then anyone can imagine. When details only a president could know, and the kind of suspense only James Patterson can deliver it’s a ‘bullet train of a thriller.’

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

ELEANOR OLIPHANT LEADS a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend.

Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled existence. Except sometimes everything…

DVD Corner

Peaky Blinders Series Four

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WHEN TOMMY SHELBY receives a mysterious letter on Christmas Eve he realises that his entire family is in danger of annihilation. As the enemy closes in, Tommy flees his country house and heads to the only safe place he knows…

In May of this year, with this gritty drama series a big winner at the BAFTA TV Awards, series creator Steven Knight confirmed his "ambition of making it a story of a family between two wars, and by ending it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham", which was 25 June 1940. He said it would take another three series, making seven in all) to complete the story up to that point.

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Don’t miss this delightful British film

2nd September 2018 by Graham Taylor

OUR NEXT Film Club showing is on Thursday, September 27 and features a delightful British film, The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society.

Based on the best-selling and much-loved novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, the film tells how Julies Ashton, a London-based writer, in 1946 began exchanging letters with residents on the island of Guernsey, which had been occupied by the Germans during World War Two.

The strangely-named society had begun as a cover for residents breaking curfew. Feeling compelled to visit the island, Ashton, played by Lily James, gradually begins to get a picture of what life was like during the occupation.

The film show starts at 2pm and, as always, admission is strictly for Library members only. There is no admission fee and refreshments, including ice cream, will be on sale during the intermission.

Check out the film trailer below.

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Tales of family, love, secrets and redemption

14th August 2018 by Graham Taylor

NEW TO the shelves of the Library this month are a collection of titles that take us from the swamps of Ohio to pre-war Paris, taking in Scotland along the way, as Tracy Chevalier, Clare Dyer, Kate Furnival and Jenny Colgan give us their take on family, love, secrets and redemption.

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Pompeii

4th July 2018 by Graham Taylor

THE MASSIVE eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD is the dramatic subject of the Library’s next Film Club on Thursday August 30. Pompeii tells the story of freed slave turned gladiator Milo as he races against time to save his true love while the Roman town is being destroying around him. Click on ‘Read more’ to see the film trailer…

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Don’t miss our Summer Art Market

11th June 2018 by Graham Taylor

DON’T MISS our new summer venture, an Art Market featuring the work of a number of local artists. It will all take place on Saturday, June 30th in the Library garden between the hours of 11.30am and 6pm. Refreshments will be available.

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