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    Requiem. Books in Orbit

    Requiem.

    David Butler offers a tender requiem for Éireann, his unborn daughter, weaving Irish landscape, family…
    David Butler
    David ButlerJune 30, 2026

    In This Issue

    • Brand New Gulliversary!
    • Satirical Foot Notes
    • The Storytellers: From Herodotus to Dean Swift and beyond.
    • On going across the water to university
    • Were the early efforts of the London Missionary Society in the South Pacific truly ethical? 
    • A Village of Stories: On Books, Imagination and the Quiet Defiance of a High Street Bookshop
    • Andrew Carnegie – Robber Baron or Visionary Philanthropist?
    • Old libraries and the new literacy
    • The importance of libraries to communities
    • In Pursuit of our Foreverton Commons
    • From Everton to Belfast and Armagh
    • Libraries Are the Heart of a Community
    • Flower Library
    • An Autumnal Performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • The Layered Stratigraphy of Crime: Ann Cleeves’ The Killing Stones
    • Hu Anyan, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing. A story that resonates.

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    ORB’s inaugural mission was to the moon, marking the 250th anniversary of a hymn on a lunar eclipse as seen from Olney! Now this second issue celebrates the 300th anniversary of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.

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