An English Library Journey With Detours to Wales and Northern Ireland

John Bevis is a writer and book-lover on an eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in England. In a ten-year mission criss-crossing the country-from Solihull to Slough, from Cleveland to Cornwall-he enrolls at libraries of all shapes and sizes: monuments to Art Deco or Brutalism; a converted corset factory; one even shaped like a pork pie. With the architectural eye of Pevsner and the eavesdropping ear of Bill Bryson, he engages us at every step with anecdotes and aperçus about the role of the public library in our national life, while ruing its decline in the age of austerity. As interested in the people he finds as he is in the buildings and their history, he is a humane, witty, and erudite guide. The result is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever used a library.

ISBN:	9781785633089
Publisher:	Eye Books
Imprint:	Eye Books
Published date:	15 Jul 2022
DEWEY:	021.0942
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	240
Weight:	322g
Height:	138mm
Width:	206mm
Spine width:	26mm

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