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 is a not-for-profit project by the artist and writer Sharon Kivland. The publications are modest yet attractive, and constitute her library, based on her purchase of a hundred ISBN 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 from Broadway Books, Camden Art Centre, London Review of Books, ICA, Koenig Whitechapel, Artwords Broadway Market, South London Gallery, 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.

Address any queries to : sharonkivland@wanadoo.fr

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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, standard international to Europe (sometimes delays due to Brexit), economy international everywhere else, no tracking so it is in the lap of the gods, and may take longer than expected. We try to send out orders as quickly as possible, but we do this in our spare time, so please forgive any delay.
EU countries: please note that customs charges may be imposed at the time of delivery, in addition to postage charges paid at the time of ordering.

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. If you insist on sending something, do make sure that you have bought a number of our books before you do so, as this will curry favour and provoke less rolling of our eyes. It seems only fair, no?

Sharon Kivland Le Bottier de la jeunesse, 2018

Sharon Kivland
Le Bottier de la jeunesse, 2018