AWOL Book Returned

An overdue library book has been returned to a library in Scotland – 38 years late. The novel To Sea in a Sieve by Peter Bull was dropped off at a library in southern England, some 1000 kilometres from its rightful destination. The Shetland Library finally regained the absentee book after it was hand-delivered by staff from a community library in England. “It was due back on 12 July, 1983 – which pre-dates myself,” said the support services librarian. Officials said it had been brought in by a woman who found it at an estate sale in Suffolk.