![]() ![]() With the narrative weaving in and out of the events that take place in A Christmas Carol, The Last of the Spirits tells the tale of these two strange children, and how they came to be enclosed in the folds of the spirit’s robes. As a little present in this season of goodwill, we enclose a wonderful book, The Last of the Spirits, by one of our favourite authors, Chris Priestley. The spirit identifies them as ‘Ignorance’ and ‘Want’. When we meet the towering, benevolent Ghost of Christmas Present, hidden in his robes we glimpse two disconcertingly withered children. I’m sure you know and love Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as much as we do. This is what we wrote:Ī reminder from a Christmas past that our actions foreshadow certain ends The letter set out the impact of library closures, the loss of employed, qualified librarians and the loss of funding for the purchase of new books, on the children and adults who use them today, on the future of literacy in this country and also on the British book industry as a whole. ![]() In December 2017 we wrote a letter and, enclosing a book, sent it to Theresa May, British Prime Minister. ![]()
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