In the run up to National Libraries Day on 6 February, and to celebrate the publication of Public Library and Other Stories by the great and talented Ali Smith, Penguin and The Reading Agency have invited library visitors and librarians across the country to get involved in the #MyPublicLibrary competition!
#MyPublicLibrary
Library visitors and librarians around the country have been invited to tweet or Instagram a picture of themselves with a favourite book they discovered at a library using the hashtag #MyPublicLibary to be in with a chance of winning their very own curated library from Ali Smith herself.
We will also be giving away signed posters and signed copies of Public Library and Other Stories to two lucky runners up.
The competition closed on 31 January. Look out for the announcement of the winner on National Libraries Day, 6 February.
Public Library and Other Stories
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.
Why are books so very powerful?
What do the books we’ve read over our lives – our own personal libraries – make of us?
What does the unravelling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?
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.
