Dumfries supermarket launches book donation and exchange station
Morrisons community champion Myra Smyth hopes the Little Library will promote reading and literacy
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Myra Smith has launched a children s Little Library in the Dumfries branch of Morrisons. (Image: Jim McEwan)
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The copyright to F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age novel expired at the end of 2020, meaning anyone is now allowed to adapt it into a film, make it into an opera or stage a Broadway musical without permission from the estate.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said
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“It contains some of my favourite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”
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Also in the running are Barbadian writer Cherie Jones’ story of gritty life on a beautiful island, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, and two books by British writers: Susanna Clarke’s literary fantasy Piranesi and Claire Fuller’s rural family saga Unsettled Ground.
Booker Prize-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo, who is chairing the judging panel, said several of the novels depicted communities that aren’t really written about in fiction and tough subjects such as domestic violence, addiction and depression. But they’re not miserable books, she said. They’re all really beautifully crafted stories. … They’re not lightweight, but they are a thrilling read.