The Case of the Missing Books
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Ian Sansom. The Case of the Missing Books
The Mobile Library. The Case of the Missing Books. Ian Sansom
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DEPARTMENT OF ENTERTAINMENT. LEISURE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES. LIBRARY CLOSURE
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Acknowledgements
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About the Author. The Mobile Library
Also by Ian Sansom
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About the Publisher
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For the librarians of Ongar, Epping, Loughton,
Romford, Harlow, Cambridge, Oxford, London,
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This was how most of the big decisions in life got taken, in Israel’s experience, and contrary to what he’d always been given to understand from his reading of the world’s great literature: you needed to go to the toilet, or you were bored, or you were just tired from arguing and you couldn’t think of anything else to do, and suddenly you found yourself married, or you’d signed the petition, or you’d volunteered for something you wouldn’t normally consider doing even if you were paid for it, or you’d accepted a job driving a mobile library in a godforsaken corner of the north of the north of the island of Ireland.
‘Oh, that’s great! That’s great!’ exclaimed Linda, punching the air with her salty, chubby fists. ‘I’m delighted, delighted, delighted. Wonderful!’ She reached over her desk and shook his hand. ‘It’ll be like a holiday for you.’
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