Forget the library, head to Marylebone this May for your free reading fix.
Woo! Free books! Yes, on 5th May 500 Asian themed books will be released onto the mean streets of Marylebone to be picked up by unsuspecting passers by. Part of the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature, this unique literary treasure hunt, staged with a little help from the world's largest online book group, BookCrossing, will encourage the public to read Asian themed books.
In addition to the the release of books by a whole host of contemporary authors, including William Dalrymple, Sathnam Sangera and Vikram Chandra, the public will be invited to come and let loose a few tomes of their own in coffee shops, restaurants and clothes shops across the area. All the Asia House books will be labelled to persuade people to follow the drill: pick them up, read them and then let them go again for another reader to stumble across. In conjunction with BookCrossing, a serial number on each novel means that the reader will be able to go online, register where they left the book and follow it as it makes its way to who knows where.
This event is one of many planned for the Asia House Festival of Asian Literature taking place between 5th and 27th May. Now in its fourth year, the festival, the only one in the UK dedicated to writing about Asia, will feature 40 of the most acclaimed writers in the field, including Fatima Bhutto, Neel Mukherjee and Daljit Nagra, who'll be appearing in 20 events over the month of May.
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