The Kittiwake Trust

Multilingual Library

languages currently in the library

Afrikaans - Albanian - Amharic - Amsterdams - Antwerps - Arabic - Aramaic -  Armenian - Bahamian - Bahasa Indonesia - Basque - Bayerisch - Belarusian - Bengali - Berber - Bosnian - Brabants - Braille - Brazilian Portuguese - Breton - Bulgarian - Cantonese - Catalan - Chickasaw - Chinese - Choctaw - Corsican - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dari - Doric - Drents - Dundee - Dutch - Dzongkha - English - Esperanto - Estonian - Faroese - Farsi - Finnish - French - Frisian - Fula/Fulani - Gaelic - Galician - Gents - Geordie - Georgian - German - Greek - Gronings - Guernsey - Gujarati - Haags - Hebrew - Herero - Hindi - Hungarian - Icelandic - Inuktitut - Irish - Italian - Japanese - Jersey French - Kazakh - Khasi - Khmer - Klingon - Korean - Kurdish Sorani - Lao - Latin - Latvian - Limburgs - Lingala - Lithuanian -  Luxembourgish - Macedonian - Malagasy - Malay - Malayalam - Maltese - Mandarin - Maori - Marathi - Mongolian - Montenegrin - Nahuatl - Nepali - Norwegian - Nyanja - Orkney - Oromiffa - Oshindonga - Otomi - Papiamento - Papua New Guinea Pidgin - Pashto - Polish - Portuguese - Punjabi - Puter - Romanian - Romansh -  Rotterdams - Russian - Sanskrit - Scots - Serbian - Sesotho - Shetlandic - Shona - Sinhalese - Slovak - Slovene - Somali - Spanish - Sranan Tongo - Swahili - Swedish - Sylheti - Tagalog - Tamil - Thai - Tibetan - Tigrinya - Turkish - Twents - Twi - Ukrainian - Urdu - Utregs - Vallader - Vietnamese - Welsh - Westvlams - isiXhosa - Yiddish - Yorkie - Yoruba - Zeeuws -  isiZulu

American Sign Language - British Sign Language

​We currently have well over 24,000 books for adults and children, in more than 140 languages and dialects - and Geordie!

 

Subjects range from fiction to biography, sport, crafts, art, travel, poetry, history, music.... you name it and it's quite probably on a shelf somewhere.

 

Some of the children's picture books are not for loan as they are very expensive to replace if lost. We encourage families to read together in the library and see it as a second home. The African languages are also not for loan as they are incredibly hard to source and difficult to replace. We hope you will sit down and read them in the library.

 

We also have a few journals - Race and Class being the one with the longest complete run. Others include Banipal, Index on Censorship and some (rather old) music journals such as Sangeet Natak.

Membership

​Library membership costs £5 per year.

Free for those awaiting decisions on their asylum applications

Newsletter

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