Our most recent display, created by brilliant volunteer Sheila Bradley, is inspired by Russia and consists of books from the library collection -all of which are available to loan. Here are just some of the titles on display, reviews about them, and a couple of photographs taken in the library.
- Book covers & library photograph as background
- Book covers & library photograph as background
- Morrab Library photographs
- I almost don’t want to share this, it feels like lost treasure -the photographs were only discovered in Paris in 1987- beautiful &illuminating early colour photography, intimate images of a writer, his family, his friends, alongside expansive landscapes -all capturing the time and place in which he lived. Because of copyright I can’t share the photographs themselves -come, take it out of the display, and look for yourself.
- Review excerpt & book cover, Morrab Library photographs in background
- Photo of Elena Shvarts
- Morrab Library photographs -Nabokov’s Butterflies is edited and annotated by Brian Boyd & Robert Michael Pyle, published by Penguin
- Review excerpt
- Review excerpt & background image from TV series of the book
- Review excerpt
You can find the display in the glass cabinet in the main reception room. We create a new display with a different topic every month or so -it’s always worth a look in case something that was hidden when it was on the shelves catches your eye.
Click on title for full reviews – Odessa, Letters to Véra, Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People, The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry