A fundraising campaign has raised nearly £250,000 to repair a library in Liverpool that was torched by rioters during unrest earlier this month, with hundreds of authors pledging to donate their books.
Recent donations to Spellow Hub library’s GoFundMe page have more than doubled the £120,000 that was raised in the few days after the riot. The initial fundraising target of £500 was very quickly met, with Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library, donating £5,000, alongside contributions from food writer Nigella Lawson, children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and thousands more from the general public.
