Libraries Week - Saturday. The surprising history of libraries in wartime. Bodice-rippers in the blackout, steamy shelter novels and how wartime women changed the way we read today.

Send us a text So many readers have got in touch with me since reading The Little Wartime Library to tell me how much they enjoyed reading about libraries in wartime, a facet of history many of us know so little about. When I began to research the novel I realised I knew precious little about the history of librarianship, so I was lucky enough to stumble upon Anne Welsh. Anne has been a librarian for quarter of a century, mostly working in small, special libraries. Although she has held oth...