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The majestic Old Library at Trinity College Dublin, where some of Ireland’s most ancient and valuable books are stored, is a popular tourist

The conservation effort — informally named “The Great Decant” — started on April 1, when the first tome, Volume 1 of Reeves’s “History of English Law,” printed in London in 1869, was taken from its place on shelf 1.1., in the Long Room’s upper gallery, which is closed to tourists. The book was dusted with a specially modified vacuum cleaner, it was measured, its physical condition was noted, and its details were checked against the Long Room’s catalog, written in 1872.

The book was then labeled with a radio-frequency identification tag and put in a bar-coded box — the first of more than 700,000 books, manuscripts, busts and other artifacts that will be relocated from the Old Library to a climate-controlled, off-campus storage facility.

If you haven't seen the magnificent Long Room at Trinity College, go now. Starting in October 2023, it will be closed to the public for a three-year restoration project.

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The Wainwright Prize Longlist 2020

The Wainwright Prize for nature writing longlist:

Bird Therapy by Joe Harkness

Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard

Dark, Salt, Clear by Lamorna Ash

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape by Patrick Laurie

On the Red Hill by Mike Parker

Rootbound by Alice Vincent

Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie

The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange

The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith

Wanderland by Jini Reddy

Wild Child by Patrick Barkham

Wintering by Katherine May

The Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation longlist :

Bloom: From Food to Fuel by Ruth Kassinger

Greenery by Tim Dee

Harvest by Edward Posnett

Irreplaceable by Julian Hoffman

Life Changing by Helen Pilcher

Losing Eden by Lucy Jones

Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell

Rebirding by Benedict Macdonald

Sitopia by Carolyn Steel

What We Need to Do Now by Chris Goodall

Working With Nature by Jeremy Purseglove

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On This Day

William Wordsworth was born 250 years ago in 1770

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Digital library subscriptions have reportedly increased by as much as 770 per cent in some areas of the UK

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The New York Public Library published a list of the most checked-out books of all time to celebrate its 125th year of existence. At the top

Merry Christmas book lovers

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Annual survey shows sharp cuts to local authority funding have led to the loss of 17% of branches, alongside sharp staff and funding shortfa

Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evari both win Booker Prize for 2019

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It's Libraries Week 2019

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The Booker Prize Shortlist 2019

Margaret Atwood The Testaments

Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport

Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other

Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of Minorities

Salman Rushdie Quichotte

Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World

OTD

Mary Shelley was born in 1797

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The Bookshelf this July/August - Crime books around the world

Original Sin by P D James (London)

Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon (Venice)

The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri (Sicily)

Faceless Killers by Henning Manuel (Sweden )

In the Woods by Tana French (Dublin )

A Death in Valencia by Jason Webster (Valencia)

Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin (Scotland)

The three Evangelists by Fred Vargas (France)

Winter in Madrid by C J Sansom (Madrid)

Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski (Wrocław)

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (Egypt)

The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville (Belfast)

#books to read #the bookshelf #july #august #crime fiction #books #book displays

Arthur C Clarke Award winner

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Announced 18th July

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Branford Boase Award winner

Winner of the 2019 Branford Boase Award is Muhammad Khan for I Am Thunder

Announced 4th July

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Wainwright Prize Shortlist

Underland by Robert Macfarlane (Hamish Hamilton)

Wilding by Isabella Tree (Picador)

Time Song by Julia Blackburn (Jonathan Cape)

Our Place by Mark Cocker (Jonathan Cape)

Thinking On My Feet by Kate Humble (Aster)

Out of the Woods by Luke Turner (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland (Sandstone Press)

Announced 2nd July

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Daggers Shortlist 2019

CWA GOLD DAGGER

Claire Askew: All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)

M W Craven: The Puppet Show (Constable)

Christobel Kent: What We Did (Sphere)

Donna Leon: Unto Us a Son is Given (William Heinemann)

Derek B Miller: American by Day (Doubleday)

Benjamin Wood: A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better (Scribner)

CWA JOHN CREASEY (NEW BLOOD)

Claire Askew: All the Hidden Truths (Hodder & Stoughton)

Alex Dahl: The Boy at the Door (Head of Zeus)

Chris Hammer: Scrublands (Wildfire)

Vicky Newham: Turn a Blind Eye (HQ)

Laura Shepherd-Robinson: Blood &Sugar (Mantle)

Vanda Symon: Overkill (Orenda)

CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION

Sue Black: All That Remains (Doubleday)

Mikita Brottman: An Unexplained Death (Canongate)

Claire Harman: Murder by the Book (Viking)

Kirk Wallace Johnson: The Feather Thief (Hutchinson)

Ben Macintyre: The Spy and the Traitor (Viking)

Hallie Rubenhold: The Five (Doubleday)

CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

Megan Abbott: Give Me Your Hand (Picador)

Dan Fesperman: Safe Houses (Head of Zeus)

Luke Jennings: Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (John Murray)

Stephen Mack Jones: Lives Laid Away (Soho Crime)

Holly Watt: To the Lions (Bloomsbury)

Tim Willocks: Memo from Turner (Jonathan Cape)

CWA SAPERE BOOKS HISTORICAL DAGGER

Liam McIlvanney: The Quaker (Harper Fiction)

S G MacLean: Destroying Angel (Quercus Fiction)

Abir Mukherjee: Smoke and Ashes (Harvill Secker)

Alex Reeve: The House on Half Moon Street (Raven Books)

C J Sansom: Tombland (Mantle)

Laura Shepherd-Robinson: Blood & Sugar (Mantle)

CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER

Dov Alfon: A Long Night in Paris, tr Daniella Zamir (Maclehose Press)

Karin Brynard: Weeping Waters, tr Maya Fowler & Isobel Dixon (World Noir)

Gianrico Carofiglio: The Cold Summer, tr Howard Curtis (Bitter Lemon Press)

Keigo Higashino: Newcomer, tr Giles Murray (Little, Brown)

Håkan Nesser: The Root of Evil, tr Sarah Death (Mantle)

Cay Rademacher: The Forger, tr Peter Millar (Arcadia Books)

CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER

Martin Edwards: Strangers in a Pub in ‘Ten Year Stretch’ edited by Martin Edwards and Adrian Muller (No Exit Press)

Syd Moore: Death Becomes Her in ‘The Strange Casebook’ by Syd Moore (Point Blank Books)

Danuta Reah*: The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing in ‘The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables’ (Fantastic Books)

Teresa Solana: I Detest Mozart in ‘The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories’ by Teresa Solana (Bitter Lemon Press)

Lavie Tidhar: Bag Man in ‘The Outcast Hours’ edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (Solaris)

*Danuta Kot writing as Danuta Reah.

DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY

M C Beaton

Mark Billingham

John Connolly

Kate Ellis

C J Sansom

Cath Staincliffe

DEBUT DAGGER

The CWA’s renowned competition for the opening of a crime novel by an uncontracted writer

Shelley Burr: Wake

Jerry Krause: The Mourning Light

Catherine Hendricks: Hardways

David Smith: The Firefly

Fran Smith: A Thin Sharp Blade

DIAMOND DAGGER

Presented to Robert Goddard.

Announced 25th July 2019

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