Ian Sansom (1) (1966–)
Autor(a) de The Case of the Missing Books
Para outros autores com o nome Ian Sansom, veja a página de desambiguação.
About the Author
Ian Sansom is a frequent contributor and critic for the UK, publications The Guantian, Daily Telegraph, London Review of Books, and The Spectator, and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. He is the author of nine books, including Paper: An Elegy and the Mobile Library series.
Image credit: BBC
Séries
Obras de Ian Sansom
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1966-12-03
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Essex, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Northern Ireland, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University
Emmanuel College (Fellow), Cambridge University - Ocupação
- Journalist
Author
Professor of English and Comparative Studies, Warwick University
Director of Trinity College (Dublin) Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing (Dublin)
reviewer
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 3,222
- Popularidade
- #7,945
- Avaliação
- 3.2
- Resenhas
- 193
- ISBNs
- 124
- Idiomas
- 6
An offer of the position of District Branch Librarian in Northern Ireland has brought Israel across from England on and 18 hour journey by coach and ferry, only to be greeted by locked doors and a posting on the library door. Library Closed.
Is this to be the beginning of a nightmare, and adventure or a joke? He needed this job and it was no joke.
Israel meets Lind Wei, Deputy Head of Entertainment, Leisure and Community Services, the person he had spoken to earlier. It seems the council had a wee change of plans. The building is to be redeveloped. Library services are to be transitioned to a mobile system…a bookmobile! They are pulling the old bookmobile out of mothballs and bringing it back!
There are a few snags: the van is over 25 years old and been in storage for the last three years in a barn. It needed “freshening-up”…as in paint, tune-up, battery, alternator, air filter, fuel filter…. Oh, and all the books are missing…or are they?
Israel’s accommodations weren’t that great either. A chicken coop on George’s family farm — not the most fragrant surroundings or warm.
The characters, the events, the surroundings make for an entertaining read. Israel’s exposure to small town living in Ireland, with humour and feelings, leads him to find there is more to life besides his bad luck and books. There are people and events to care about that make life worthwhile.… (mais)