num_pages: 182
description: Whether brand new or steeped in history real or imagined libraries feature in everyone's lives. In memoirs essays and stories that are funny moving visionary or insightful twenty-three famous writers celebrate these places where minds open and the world expands.Public libraries are lifelines to practical information as well as to the imagination but funding is under threat all over the country. This book is published in support of libraries with all royalties going to The Reading Agency's library programmes.
language: English
title: The Library Book
publisher: Profile Books