The first issue of The London Library's new look magazine contains a six page interview with Bill Bryson, a member since 2008, whose recent book The Body was largely written here and drew heavily on the Library’s collection. In a wide-ranging interview Bill discusses his research, his favourite working spaces and why he finds the Library so special. “This Library”, he says, “is so perfect. It’s got something of everything”.
Alongside interviews with leading author Giles Milton, and scriptwriter Jonathan Holloway and theatre producer Natasha Rickman (who worked on Creation theatre’s recent stage production of The Time Machine in the Library), the magazine also explores the richness of the collection and the range of events and activities taking place here. And there’s news of the very recent discovery that Mark Twain joined the Library shortly after his arrival in London in 1896.
