I began to know and love crime fiction in the late 1970s when I borrowed a copy of Julian Symons’ history of the genre, Bloody Murder, from the Horsham public library in West Sussex. I still dip into it today.
Philip Pullman has made a stirring speech on the massive closures planned for the UK’s public libraries. It has become something of a viral sensation – articulate, passionate and inspirational stuff – you can access it online at this address:
http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/save-oxfordshire-libraries-speech-philip-pullman
