From canny medical journals in Agatha Christie novels, to Don Quixote getting too engrossed in chivalric romances, the fiction we read is filled with fictional readers. Books can help characters, betray them, or offer a new twist in their journey.
Dr Karen Attar is the curator of rare books at the Senate House Library in the University of London, and author of new book Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction.
She joins Emile Donovan from the UK.
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