‘Leave the libraries alone. You don’t know the value of what you’re looking after. It is too precious to destroy.’ Philip Pullman makes a brilliant speech defending libraries from Pickles’ Axe

Posted on 2011/01/27 , tagged as

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No Icon book to sell here, but anyone who cares about books and reading will want to read this speech by novelist Philip Pullman made in Oxford last week.

He lambasts the government cuts to local authority spending which are going to massively reduce the number of libraries available to the public. For anyone who’s experienced the wonder that a public library can provide, it’s a rousing address.

Oh and, all right then – here’s an Icon book to mention at the same time – Nicolas Tucker’s Darkness Visible, a guide to the world of Philip Pullman’s fiction, especially the His Dark Materials trilogy…