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. 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.

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.

Articles Recommendations Features Extracts Quizzes View all articles Children's articles Children's articles Recommendations Extracts Games & activities Quizzes View all children's articles Most viewed Most viewed Where to start with. 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. 8 Items in the Series Art of the story Whatever happened to interracial love : stories, Kathleen Collins Catastrophe : and other stories, Dino Buzzati. Public Library and other stories by Ali Smith Penguin Shop Find your next read. Nationwide librarians are developing a community center. Sheer inventive power' ObserverĪnd what does the vanishing of public libraries say about us? The public library as community center: books, latte, yoga The public library branches out with new ways to bring bodies to the stacks. 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

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