With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith raises her voice in defence of our public libraries, celebrating their essential place in our culture and history. Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. Why are books so very powerful What do the books weve read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us What does the unravelling of our. These stories are about what we do with books and what they do with us: how they travel with us how they shock us, change us, challenge us, banish time while making us older, wiser and ageless all at once how they remind us to pay attention to the world we make. The Wellesley Free Library’s Library of Things has an expansive list of items members can sign out, including crochet hooks, sewing machines, white noise machines, gaming consoles, e-readers and bird-watching kits. It seems somehow wrong that I now own my copy of Public Library, Ali Smiths fifth collection of short stories. Sheer inventive power'' ObserverĪnd what does the vanishing of public libraries say about us?

Sent every other month, suggestions cover everything from new releases to. A richly inventive collection of stories about our enduring love of books from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women''s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet Now Read This are the BPLs brand-new reading recommendation email newsletters.

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