Adopt a Book Inspiration

Adopting a book from The London Library is the perfect way to share in and support our rich collection. With 1 million volumes to choose from, let us help you with some ideas for books to adopt. All funds go towards the care of the collection.

Adopt a Book: Faber & Faber

Founded 96 years ago in April 1929, Faber & Faber is one of the world’s best-known independent publishers. Published authors include notable Library members T S Eliot (who was both London Library President and an editor at Faber), Kazuo Ishiguro, Edna O’Brien and Harold Pinter.

To celebrate the Library’s connection with Faber & Faber, why not Adopt a Book written by a Faber writer from our collections? You’ll receive a personalised certificate, as well as your name written on a permanent bookplate inside the book.

You might want to consider:

· Plays One by Harold Pinter, including The Birthday Party and A Slight Ache

· The Collected Prose by TS Eliot

· Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

· Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard

· Country Girl by Edna O’Brien

· Thinking Again by Jan Morris

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