Orkney Library is hilarious on social media. They created a book display for Valentine’s Day this year which still makes me laugh every time I think of it. They assembled an array of erotic novels, all with their covers facing out and entitled it “Help, these men have lost their shirts”.

I showed it to Kitty at book club and she nearly fell off her chair she was laughing so hard. Finally she caught her breath and asked, “but Nina, where will I find somebody like that to model for the cover of my book if I self-publish it? Would Alex do it for me?”

That was my cue to laugh uproariously. Alex is lovely but a) he’d rather die and b) he’d have to spend a year in the gym to get that ripped. Being a librarian may give you decent biceps thanks to lifting bo...

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