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| One literary prize authors don’t
want |
A COMPUTER programming manual has pipped the Louis De Bernieres
bestseller Captain Corelli’s Mandolin to scoop the unwanted
title of Camden’s most frequently lost or stolen adult library
book.
A Freedom of Information Act request by the New Journal has revealed
that a dozen copies of MS-DOS 6 Explained by N Kantaris and PRM
Oliver are missing – one more than the De Bernieres novel which
was turned into a hit Hollywood movie starring Nicholas Cage in
2001.
The Town Hall does not record a figure for how much it spends replacing
lost or stolen books.
Devotees of the Beat writer Jack Kerouac might not be surprised
to learn that his 1957 masterpiece On the Road is the fourth most
stolen book. And Mad Frank, the memoirs of former east end gangster
Frankie Fraser makes perhaps an unsurprising entry as the 11th most
stolen book, just three places ahead of his contemporaries in John
Pearson’s The Rise And Fall Of The Krays.
Copies of Witchcraft: A Beginner’s Guide (30th most stolen)
and Magician (37th) presumably flew from the shelves under a spell.
Anyone caught stealing the fifth most missing book, First English
Grammar, will at least be able to address the judge in the finest
Queen’s English.
But employers checking over the resumés of thieves of the
sixth most missing book, Preparing Your Own CV, might be less inclined
to hire them if they knew the full facts.
And it is unclear what maths teachers would make of their students
running off with Brian Speed’s GCSE Mathematics guide, the
ninth most stolen book.
The most borrowed book, Dan Brown’s blockbuster The Da Vinci
Code, entered the list at number 35.
A Town Hall press official said: “With over two million people
using Camden’s libraries last year, unfortunately some books
will go missing, including those some people steal.”
“Camden Council does all it can to prevent this, with the majority
of the borough’s libraries having electronic security systems
in place, and CCTV in some libraries.”
Top ten missing Camden library
books
• Noel Kantaris – MS-DOS 6 Explained.
• Louis De Bernieres – Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.
• Thomas Harris – Red Dragon.
• Jack Kerouac – On The Road.
• Celia Blissett – First English Grammar.
• Rebecca Corfield – Preparing Your Own CV.
• Howard Marks – Mr Nice Guy.
• Ray Williams – Mathematics.
• Patricia Cornwell – Cruel and Unusual.
• Zadie Smith – White Teeth. |
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