With this brilliantly inventive collection, Ali Smith joins the campaign to save our public libraries and celebrate their true place in our culture and history. Ali Smith is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Other Stories and Other Stories, Hotel World, The Whole Story and Other Stories, The Accidental, Girl Meets Boy, The First Person and Other Stories, There but for the, Artful, How to be both, Public library and other stories and Autumn. Public Library and Other Stories, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£16.99, 240 pages. Public libraries are places of joy, freedom, community and discovery - and right now they are under threat from funding cuts and widespread closures across the UK and further afield. The stories in Ali Smith's new collection 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. What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?
What do the books we've read over our lives - our own personal libraries - make of us? Public library and other stories by Ali Smith - Penguin Books Australia Play sample Published: 18 July 2016 ISBN: 9780241974599 Imprint: Penguin General UK Format: Paperback Pages: 240 RRP: 22. A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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