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<p>Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi''s enchanting ''Books and Roses''); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Elizabeth McCracken''s eccentric library did not happen in real life - even down to the murder; and it is rumoured that on 3 June 1997 the British Museum Reading Room really <i>was</i> visited by the ghost of Max Beerbohm''s obscurest of poets, Enoch Soames...<br>Fiction and reality merge in Cortazar''s ''A Continuity of Parks''. Characters step out of their books in Fay Weldon''s ''Lily Bart''s Hat Shop'', while Jasper Fforde''s Jurisfiction operatives enter <i>Wuthering Heights</i> to deliver a Rage-Counselling session<i>.</i> Charles Lamb muses on the annoying book-borrowing habits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the teenage Teffi is overawed by Tolstoy; Helene Hanff in Manhattan launches her famous correspondence with a London antiquarian bookshop at 84 Charing Cross Road.<br>Reading, as th