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You can find the latest details of my newest book here, to be updated as more details become available. If you scroll down you can access my other book titles in print, or click the link to visit the archive of earlier printed work. If you need further information on any of these please feel free to get in touch.

An English Library Journey

John Bevis

Eye Books, spring 2022. Hardback, 268pp, £14.99

Available to order at https://www.eye-books.com/books/an-english-library-journey

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 of Pevsner and the eavesdropping ear of Bill Bryson, he engages us at every step with anecdotes and aperçus about the role of the public library in our national life, while ruing its decline in the age of austerity.

As interested in the people he finds as he is in the buildings and their history, he is a humane, witty and erudite guide. The result is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever used a library.

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CURRENT BOOKS

Here are books currently in print featuring my writing, either as sole author or principal author. Click each for full publication details. Or click below to visit the archive, where you can see a complete backlist of small press publications and artists book published 1976-2000.

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