Book Read Free

The Bad Book Affair: A Mobile Library Mystery

Page 27

by Ian Sansom


  About the Author

  IAN SANSOM is a regular contributor to The Guardian and the London Review of Books. He lives in Northern Ireland.

  www.iansansom.net

  Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.

  ALSO BY IAN SANSOM

  The Book Stops Here

  Mr. Dixon Disappears

  The Case of the Missing Books

  The Impartial Recorder

  The Truth About Babies

  The Enthusiast Almanack

  The Enthusiast Field Guide to Poetry

  Credits

  Cover design by Milan Bozic

  Cover photograph of book by 123foto/iStockphoto

  Cover photograph of grass by Xsandra/Shutterstock Images

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  “Bookmobile,” courtesy of Joyce Sutphen, was previously published in Coming Back to the Body, 2000.

  THE BAD BOOK AFFAIR. Copyright © 2010 by Ian Sansom. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

  EPub Edition © December 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-196604-0

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

  About the Publisher

  Australia

  HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

  25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321)

  Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com.au

  Canada

  HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

  55 Avenue Road, Suite 2900

  Toronto, ON, M5R, 3L2, Canada

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.ca

  New Zealand

  HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Limited

  P.O. Box 1

  Auckland, New Zealand

  http://www.harpercollins.co.nz

  United Kingdom

  HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

  77-85 Fulham Palace Road

  London, W6 8JB, UK

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.uk

  United States

  HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

  10 East 53rd Street

  New York, NY 10022

  http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com

  Table of Contents

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Contents

  1

  2

  3

  4

  5

  6

  7

  8

  9

  10

  11

  12

  13

  14

  15

  16

  17

  18

  19

  20

  21

  22

  23

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Other Books by Ian Sansom

  Credits

  Copyright

  About the Publisher

 

 

 


‹ Prev