This quirky book shaped bench was installed to celebrate Geraldine McCaughrean winning the prestigious Carnegie medal in 2018 for Where the World Ends, a novel set on the isolated archipelago of St Kilda. The Carnegie Medal was introduced by the Library Association in 1935, named in honour of Andrew Carnegie in the centenary year of his birth and it is awarded for outstanding children’s literature by a British author. What could be more appropriate than a book shaped bench outside the world's first Carnegie library!
