Public Library and Other Stories (14 page)

Acknowledgements and grateful thanks to the following publications, where stories from this collection first appeared:
Ox-Tales Fire
;
New Statesman
;
Goodbye to All That
;
Elsewhere
;
The Times
;
Harper's Bazaar
. ‘The beholder' was originally commissioned by Durham Literature Festival and published, along with ‘The poet', in
Shire
(2012). ‘The definite article' was first published in the Park Stories series and is dedicated to Mary Chadwick.

Thank you to everyone
who helped in some way with this book, by telling me or sending me their library stories.

Special thanks to Kate Atkinson, Lori Beck, Xandra Bingley, Tracy Bohan, Lesley Bryce, Mary Chadwick, Helen Clyne, Lucy Gulland, Alexandra Harris, Debbie Hodder, Pat Hunter, Anna James, Clare Jennings, Jackie Kay, Eve Lacey, Olivia Laing, Sophie Mayer, Cathy Moore, Helen Oyeyemi, Richard Popple, Simon Prosser, Anna Ridley, Kamila Shamsie, Miriam Toews, Miriam Toews's mother, Emily Wainwright, Natalie Williams, Emma Wilson, Sarah Wood.

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First published 2015

Copyright © Ali Smith, 2015

Cover image: “La Chinoise”, a film by Jean-Luc Godard. © 1967 Gaumont / Ciné-Mag Bodard / Roissy Films / M. Nicolas Lebovici

The moral right of the author has been asserted

‘Play To Me Gypsy (The Song I Love)', words and music by Jimmy Kennedy and Karel Vacek. Copyright © 1932, reproduced by permission of EMI Music Publishing Ltd, London W1F 9LD; ‘Red Sails In The Sunset', words and music by Jimmy Kennedy and Wilhelm Grosz. Copyright © 1935, reproduced by permission of Peter Maurice Music Co. Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd, London W1F 9LD and Redwood Music Ltd, London NW1 8BD; ‘Broken English', words and music by Marianne Faithfull, Joe Mavety, Barry Reynolds, Stephen York and Terence Stannard. Copyright © 1985. Reproduced by permission of EMI Music Publishing Ltd, London W1F 9LD, Warner/Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), Blue Mountain Music Ltd and Bandbase Music; ‘Looking On The Bright Side', words and music by Howard Flynn. Copyright © 1932, Cameo Music Publishing Company. Chester Music Limited trading as Campbell Connelly & Co. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by Permission of Chester Music Publishing Company; ‘The War Song' by Culture Club, words and music by George O'Dowd, Jonathan Moss and Michael Craig. Copyright © 1984, BMG VM Music Limited. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by permission of Music Sales Limited; ‘Wish Me Luck (As You Wave Me Goodbye)' by Phil Park and Harry Parr-Davies, Chappell Music Ltd (PRS), all rights administered by Warner/Chappell Music Ltd; ‘The Vikings', ‘The Pilgrim', ‘The Poet (III)' and ‘The Unwanted Child' from
The Wrong Music: The Poems of Olive Fraser, 1909–1977
, ed. Helena M. Shire (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1989); ‘Dear Library' by Jackie Kay. Copyright © Jackie Kay, 2015, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited

ISBN: 978-0-241-97458-2