Fallen Among Scribes: Conversations with Novelists, Poets, Critics

Within the library profession David Gerard is known for various accomplishments and achievements, not least among them being his efforts to record oral history. The tapes of his interviews with a wide range of leading figures of the earlier generation in the UK profession are both a fascinating and important contribution to library history. How rewarding actually to listen to the voices of figures who were leaders in the profession at the beginning and early stages of my own career, as much, it seems, for the sound of their voices and manner of their expression as for what they were...