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Authors name their choices for ‘five star’ Leicester Square library

Assistant manager Denne Dempsey places books on the shelves of the new library
Assistant manager Denne Dempsey places books on the shelves of the new library
JACK HILL FOR THE TIMES

A glossy cocktail bar on the corner of Leicester Square is the unlikely setting for Britain’s most intriguing new library.

At a time when campaigners are fighting to prevent library closures across the country the arrival of the (W)riter’s Library is potentially a shot in the arm for the borrowed book.

Inside the £200 million W hotel, on the site of the old Swiss Centre, the library has been conceived as the antidote to the rows of tacky airport novels that pass for book selections in most hotels.

Ten writers, including the American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis and David Nicholls, British author of the hugely popular novel One Day, have each picked out the ten books they would most like to find in
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