Book launch used in campaign to save library
A BEST-selling North Devon author swapped the Edinburgh Book Festival for Appledore Library to launch his new book, Measly Medicine.
Nick Arnold - whose Horrible Science books have sold millions of copies around the world - opted for the more modest surroundings of the under-fire library in a bid to aid the fight against Devon County Council's plans for its closure.
Also joining the fight for a reprieve is budding author of the future, six-year-old Appledore resident Katie May Huxtable - a keen library user who has just won a county-wide writing prize organised by Devon Libraries.
"Like Katie, I visited Appledore Library when I was younger and wouldn't be writer today if were not for libraries," said Nick.
"For a community like Appledore, a local library is just as important as the big book festivals for the country as a whole. If it hadn't been for public libraries I wouldn't have become an author at all and this is my way of putting something back.
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