A short story will be omitted from a reprint of David Walliams' The World's Worst Children book next year, after it was criticised for its racial stereotyping.
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Audiobooks and online reading were the stories of the year at Shetland Library, which noticed a change of literary habits during the pandemic.
With the library closed for a time during lockdown, borrowers turned in larger numbers to eBooks and audiobooks to maintain their reading.
The library’s most borrowed list shows the top spot for ‘physical loans’ in adult fiction went to Jojo Moyes’ The Giver of Stars, a novel about packhorse librarians in America.
When ebooks and audiobooks were added it was checked out 146 times.
Under Currents (Nora Roberts),
Nine Perfect Strangers (Liane Moriarty),
The Guardians (John Grisham),
Redemption (David Baldacci) and
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About 3.3 million books were issued across Christchurch City Council’s library network in the past 12 months. Well-known names lead the library waitlist, with Lee and Andrew Child’s
Sentinel the most requested, followed by chef Chelsea Winter’s
Supergood, Kiwi Rose Carlyle’s debut novel,
The Girl in the Mirror, and David Walliams’
The World’s Worst Parents. In the children’s section, J. K. Rowling’s
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is firmly on top, followed by