Profile Books is to publish The Library Book in time for National Libraries Day (twitter hashtag #NLD12) on 4 February – celebrating the theme Love Libraries. All royalties from The Library Book are coming to The Reading Agency to support our library reading programmes, so please buy your copy.
We also have a reading group set of 10 copies of The Library Book to give away. Please send us a short email saying why your reading group loves your library by 4 February.
About The Library Book
From Alan Bennett’s Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan’s Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they’re important. They are joined by 18 other of our most outstanding writers who describe libraries real or imagined, past, present, and future – why they matter and to whom. The Library Book’s contributors recognise that without libraries we would not have the writers of today and tomorrow. They include Anita Anand, Julian Barnes, Bella Bathurst, Alan Bennett, Michael Brooks, James Brown, Anne Cleeves, Stephen Fry, Seth Godin, Susan Hill, Tom Holland, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Lucy Mangan, Val McDermid, China Mieville, Caitlin Moran, Julie Myerson, Adele Parks, Bali Rai and Lionel Shriver.
If you are a reading group, library-based or not, why not remind yourselves about all the many great things that libraries offer? And make sure you are in touch with your local library. Check back on your Reading Group profile to make sure that you have the correct library service showing against your profile so your local library service can find you too.
