In honour of Refugee Week, the Library hosted another brilliant author-led literary evening on July 10. Two distinguished writers, Kamila Shamsie – author of 'HOME FIRE', the astonishing novel set in Preston Road that won the Women’s Prize for Fiction – and Caroline Smith, the much-lauded Wembley-based poet, came to the Library to discuss their works. Kamila... Read More

BBC reporter, Asad Ahmad, with Preston Community Library's Inspiration, the sculpture, especially created for us by Carl Gabriel,  hits the headlines during the BBC London report on Carnival.  BBC London's report on preparations for Carnival provided fine views of our sculpture Inspiration which is currently on display at the Tabernacle, Notting Hill during our temporary move to... Read More

To mark the 50th anniversary of the disastrous 1973 Coup in Chile, come to a screening of the award-winning documentary Cruel Separation with director, Sarah Boston. Cruel Separation is the story of the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973 from the point of view of four women who lived through it: Hortensia Bussi de Allende, widow... Read More

On September 16, PCL had a stall at a Fun Day organised by the Mayor, Cllr Orleen Hylton, and Brent Health Matters at the Century Bowling Club in Logan Road. The event offered health checks, arts and crafts, cookery demonstrations and many other activities. Funds raised were shared between the Mayor’s two charities – Preston... Read More

An evening with the Author! Over a million Indian soldiers left their villages for the mud-filled trenches of France and Flanders - their contribution largely forgotten. Some 4,742 Indian and Nepali soldiers who fell have no known grave. Historian Shrabani Basu’s book tells the personal stories of some who went to fight the on the... Read More

  Sunday 4th February 2024, at 7:30pm The Windermere Pub, Windermere Ave, Wembley, South Kenton HA9 8QT Opposite South Kenton Tube/Overground Station: 223 Bus Entrance: £8.00; £5.00(concs) - proceeds to help keep our Library open. Raising funds for: PRESTON COMMUNITY LIBRARY  

Tuesday 6th February 2024 7:00 pm THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT: Please register here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shylock-tickets-797225622297?aff=oddtdtcreator ‘Armstrong is nothing short of incredible… It is an exceptional piece of theatre. Everyone should see it.’ Independent on Sunday A villain? A victim? Or something even more intriguing? The tragic, funny, and often unbelievable life, of fiction’s most famous Jew.... Read More

Sunday 27th October 2024, 3:00 pm in Ashley Gardens In 1924, Wembley Park was the venue for the British Empire Exhibition, which brought people from countries across the world, which were all “under the British flag” at that time, to show their cultures and their produce. Philip Grant of the Wembley History Society will introduce... Read More

On September 3rd 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared ‘We are at War with Germany’, when Terry was four years old.When WW2 ended in 1945 he was ten, and all his formative childhood years were coloured by the wartime experience.We often hear the reminiscences from an adult perspective but few from the child’s point-of-view. The... Read More