Stories of Books and Libraries

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Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemis enchanting Books and Roses); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Elizabeth McCrackens eccentric library did not happen in real life - even down to the murder; and it is rumoured that on 3 June 17 the British Museum Reading Room really was visited by the ghost of Max Beerbohms obscurest of poets, Enoch Soames...
Fiction and reality merge in Cortazars A Continuity of Parks. Characters step out of their books in Fay Weldons Lily Barts Hat Shop, while Jasper Ffordes Jurisfiction operatives enter Wuthering Heights to deliver a Rage-Counselling session. Charles Lamb muses on the annoying book-borrowing habits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the teenage Teffi is overawed by Tolstoy; Helene Hanff in Manhattan launches her famous correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road.
Reading, as the Queen informs an appalled private secretary, is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. And also, of course, a lot of fun. Sit comfortably, then, and begin.