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 1997 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 RageCounselling session. Charles Lamb muses on the annoying bookborrowing 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.