An English Library Journey Pride and the spiteful viciousness of

and the spiteful viciousness of its juvenile zealots and their cowardly adult enablers’ Richard Dawkins

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Will Mary find true love at last

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if good travel writing is all about things going horribly wrong

An English Library Journey Pride and the spiteful viciousness ofA hymn of praise. Absolutely exquisite Ian McMillan 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 enrols 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