Library Lives CTB The Spectator 'splendid'

The Spectator 'splendid'

While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs

Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have together sold over 40 million copies

The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to bees

From San Francisco’s Oracle Park to Baltimore’s Camden Yards

Library Lives CTB The Spectator 'splendid'Library Lives plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library in Manchester, its collections drawn from every corner and period of the textual and meta textual world. How do we read and what can we read from a potsherd, a locket, a fragment of papyrus, a gorgeously illuminated medieval manuscript, an envelope, a seemingly ordinary book? Stella Halkyard, one of the library's erstwhile archivists, tells the