Award-winning Irish writer John Connelly yesterday
pledged his support for public libraries. He said: “When libraries start
closing, something is very wrong with our culture, and I think that in this
time of cuts, we as authors we have a duty to support libraries”.
He was speaking at a special event organised by publishers
Hodder & Stoughton and Headline joined forces with The Reading Agency
yesterday (1 October) to offer librarians an exclusive chance to meet author
John Connelly during his current book tour.
John is well-known for his series of crime thriller
novels starring US-based private detective Charlie Parker (including Every Dead
Thing, Dark Hollow, The Killing Kind, The White Road, Bad Men, Nocturnes, The
Reapers etc).
However, John’s tour is to promote Conquest: Chronicles of the Invaders –
a new science fiction series for teenagers – and The Creeps, the latest
instalment in his ‘Samuel Johnson’ series. So this event was primarily aimed at
children's librarians and librarians looking after young people, giving them a
chance to meet the author and his publishing team at their central London
offices. In 2009, John published The Gates, his first novel for young adults. A
sequel was published in 2011, entitled Hell’s Bells in the UK.
Whilst signing copies of his books for attending librarians, he said:
“Librarians are approaching your work from a love of books and reading. They
are very in touch with local readerships, and are in a really important
position to recommend books. Children, of course, don’t read book reviews or
adverts; in engaging with them you are totally dependent on local booksellers
and librarians to recommend a book to them, and then if they enjoy it they’ll
recommend it on to other young readers”.
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