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From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves.
Using memoir, history, polemic and some short stories too, The Library Book celebrates 'that place where they lend you books for free' and the people who work there.
All royalties go to The Reading Agency, to help their work supporting libraries.
This was an inadvertent BB from mstrust who initially used the wrong touchstone. It caught my eye because I spotted Alan Bennett’s name in the drop down description. However, there were many favourite authors in this anthology created in support of libraries: Ann Cleeves, Caitlin Moran, Val McDermid, Zadie Smith, and more. The story from Kate Mosse was a hair-raising ghost story. And Alan Bennett’s essay was so typically personal that I could hear his voice. Both interesting and inspirational, this was a very enjoyable read, and just imagine, without mstrust’s mistaken touchstone, I may never have found it. ( )
I love going into my local library! I get something from being there that I don’t get anywhere else. All the contributors in this book feel the same way. Libraries are special places and if you think so too you’ll enjoy this lovely book about what makes them so special. ( )
An interesting little book full of essays on what libraries have meant to the writers. A varied collection of authors, some well known, others not, but all very much appreciate libraries. It was a lifeline for many, escaping from home, poverty, ... A good read. ( )
This is a book published by the reading agency, as an eulogy to the institution that is the public library system. All the authors in this book are fans of libraries, either because they have fond memories of them as children, or they were pivotal in their life. It has a couple of fictional extracts, and the remainder are essays on the reason that we cannot let national government abolish these essential parts of the community.
I am a complete library addict. I see them as a free bookshop, and normally visit once a week. ( )
A refrain runs through this essay collection, published to support the Reading Agency's library programmes: libraries made me what I am. Val McDermid, growing up in Kirkcaldy, made a "home from home" of her local library. Stephen Fry first read Oscar Wilde thanks to the mobile library near his home in rural Norfolk. For many contributors, personal recollection mutates into anger at the current government's library-closing tendencies: Zadie Smith mounts a scathing attack on the "shameful" dismantling of public services. Yet libraries are haunted by a spectre greater than cost-cutting: the rise of the ebook. What function will libraries have when books are downloaded? In one of the few forward-looking pieces, Seth Godin imagines the library of the future being "a place where people come together and do co-working and coordinating". Is this inspiring or depressing?
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The Library Book began with a simple idea; to celebrate libraries.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Like many people without a lot of money, we relied on our public services. Not as a frippery, not as a pointless addition, not as an excuse for personal stagnation, but as a necessary gateway to better opportunities. Like millions of British people, we paid our taxes in the hope that they would be used to establish shared institutions from which all might benefit equally. -- Zadie Smith
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves.
Using memoir, history, polemic and some short stories too, The Library Book celebrates 'that place where they lend you books for free' and the people who work there.
All royalties go to The Reading Agency, to help their work supporting libraries.
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