Reading is both a virtue
and a duty.

Contact :
sharonkivland@wanadoo.fr
Sharon Kivland
20 Sandrock Road
London SE13 7TR
Tel: + 44 (0)7752 395781

MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE commits to adhering to the Palestinian international call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and to complying with the underlying guidelines for the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE is a not-for-profit project by the artist and writer Sharon Kivland. The publications are modest yet attractive, and constitute her library, initially based on her purchase of a hundred ISBN numbers, though she is now into the next lot of numbers. In her role as The Editor, she invites authors she considers to be good readers, whom she would like to house in her library or to become her library, inhabited. She agrees with Nabokov that a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader, is a re-reader. She knows her writers and they know her, even when they have not yet met. They have read each other, or believe themselves to have done so. They are flirtatious, ruffling pages. She promises to do her best. The best is reading.

‘Je veux un travail élégant et érudit, avec un aspect modeste et pourtant agréable à contempler. Je veux un contenu léger et néanmoins sérieux’.

Editor: Sharon Kivland
Editorial Assistants: Juliette Pépin, Joe Edwardes-Evans
Sales: David Hall

MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE books are now distributed by Art Data. Sales from the e-site will continue, of course, but we hope to see more of our books in bookshops soon. So far, a selections of titles are available (to our knowledge) from Broadway Books, Camden Art Centre, London Review of Books, ICA, Koenig Whitechapel & Serpentine Galleries, Artwords Broadway Market, Burley Fisher Books, South London Gallery Bookshop, The Common Press, Donlon Books, London, The Hastings Bookshop, Good Press and Burning House Books, Glasgow, After 8, Paris, Rile*, Brussels, Hopscotch Reading Room and b-Books, Berlin, Rotorbooks, Leipzig, Print Room, Rotterdam, Nord Books, Stockholm, Politikens Boghal, Copenhagen

Address any queries to : sharonkivland@wanadoo.fr

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST HERE

MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE orders are sent as and when we can. Usually we will let you know when to expect your book/s. Post is 2nd-class to the UK.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WITH GREAT REGRET, MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE IS NO LONGER ABLE TO POST OUTSIDE THE UK. FOR THESE ORDERS, PLEASE GO TO ART DATA.

IF MORE THAN ONE BOOK IS ORDERED, THE EDITOR OFTEN ADDS ANOTHER BOOK GRATIS, ACCORDING TO HER WHIM.

We regret that we are unable to accept unsolicited proposals. Please do not send anything blindly.

RECORDINGS