Libraries and leisure

When is a book not a book?

Find out about other items for loan at your library.

Graphic Novels
If you like your novels graphic, check out our graphic novels. Twenty Two libraries around Hertfordshire have displays of graphic novels for teenagers with titles including the Simpsons, King of Hell, Batman, X-Men and Fruits Basket alongside many others.

The 22 libraries are:

• Berkhamsted Library
• Bishops Stortford Library
• Borehamwood Library
• Bushey Library
• Cheshunt Library
• Chorleywood Library
• Harpenden Library
• Hatfield Library
• Hemel Hempstead Library
• Hertford Library
• Hitchin Library
• Hoddesdon Library
• Letchworth Library
• North Watford Library
• Oakmere Library
• Oxhey Library
• Rickmansworth Library
• Royston Library
• St Albans Central Library
• Stevenage Library
• Ware Library
• Watford Library
• Welwyn Garden City Library

Don't worry if you can't get to any of these libraries. If you are under 16 our Graphic Novels can be requested FREE to be delivered to your local library for you to pick up.


Books on cassette and CD

Let Books speak to you...with our great range of teenage novels on CD and cassette. These are free to borrow for 3 weeks.

Magazines and newspapers

Why not curl up in the library with a good magazine or newspaper? Titles include Bliss, Total Film, NME, The Guardian and The Daily Mirror. Many libraries also have magazines for loan which you can borrow for a week and relax with at home. Why not check out the latest issues of Company Magazine or FHM!