Lionel Shriver, Rupert Thomson and Sasha Dugdale
On the Shelf - A Modern Love Affair with Libraries
From the great monastic collections of mediaeval Christendom to today's multimedia repositories, libraries have been endemic to our pursuit of knowledge across the ages. As they are increasingly redefined in this information age, what do they mean to us, who do they belong to and what is their future?
In this special event, three key novelists - Lionel Shriver (who has bequeathed her future assets to the Belfast Library Board), Sasha Dugdale (poet and translator) and Rupert Thomson, author of Soft, The Book of Revelation and Death of a Murderer, discuss what libraries mean to them as writers, scholars and 21st century citizens.