Craving a crafty Christmas? Waverley Library's eMagazine collection can answer the call. Our magazine collection includes crafting classics like Dream Christmas, Handmade Christmas and BH&G Christmas Ideas. Featuring patterns and plans for festive friends like reindeer, elves and penguins these Christmas maker magazines will bring you holiday cheer by the sleighfull. Available through Libby by Overdrive.

Christmas is a special time of year when loved ones travel from all over to spend happy times together. And when people gather, there's plenty of food and fun to be had. Set the scene with all the trimmings, including glorious desserts! Inside this bookazine, you'll find inspirational, step-by-step holiday treat ideas to make and share with family and friends.

Book: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea.

Book: Lessons by Ian McEwan

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, 11-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

TV Series: Call the midwife. Christmas special

Following an eventful Christmas special, the series continues with an episode set in Easter 1967. Celebrations are underway for a colourful Easter Bonnet parade outside Nonnatus House. Sister Monica Joan and Reggie are excited about the Eurovision song contest and Nancy, having just passed her midwifery examinations, is about to don her red cardigan for the first time.

It's Christmas time in Australia and Reindeer is having a whole lot of fun giving presents to his friends Cat, Dog and Guinea Pig. But even when it's warm and sunny outside, it's hard to be far from home and family on Christmas Eve. But Christmas is a time for exciting surprises and this year Reindeer might just get one of his very own...

Book: The Finkler question by Howard Jacobson

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. They share a sweetly painful evening revisiting a time before they had loved and lost.

Book: The matzah ball by Jean Meltzer

When her publisher insists that she write a Hanukkah romance, Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a Jewish woman with a secret career as a Christmas romance novelist, unexpectedly finds inspiration when she encounters a childhood aquaintance at the Matzah Ball, a Jewish music celebration on the last night of Hanukkah.

Book: Sadie's almost marvelous menorah by Jamie Korngold

When Sadie runs to show her mother the Hanukkah menorah she made in school, she trips, the menorah shatters, and she is devastated. But she finds that the shammash candle is unbroken, and a new family tradition is born.

Film: Three Mothers

The Hakim sisters, Rose, Flora and Jasmine, were born in Alexandria in 1942. Their saga is one of powerful love and deadly deceit played out in three languages and across three generations. Jews became unwelcome and the family fled to Israel in 1958. Rose's daughter becomes entangled in their complex family history when Jasmine confesses to a long-held secret.

Love the Coast Photo Competition

1 December 2022 - 6 January 2023

Calling all local photographers; get outdoors, start snapping and enter your inspiring photos in Waverley Council’s Love the Coast photography competition. Prizes: $300 and a private session with the judge for the winner, $200 for people’s choice.

Reusable Cloth Nappies

Calling all new and expecting parents! Waverley Council is offering residents a rebate for the purchase of reusable cloth nappies to support parents make the switch away from single-use, disposables. This sustainable switch reduces waste to landfill and will save you money long term! Receive 50% of the cost of your purchase up to $100. Hurry limited funds apply.