On Saturday 19th June, Shauna McMullan presented her Blue Spine installation at the Mitchell Library. Over 500 books spanned the Jeffrey room, each with a blue spine, written by a woman and donated by women from across Scotland.
The books made a fascinating and illuminating display, covering a whole range of subjects, with fiction, non-fiction and poetry – choices both popular and obscure, and very often personal. A list of the books, and those who contributed, is available to download:
Download: Blue Spine Book List (pdf)
Download: Blue Spine Contributors (pdf)
Many of the contributors were able to take part in a photograph of the exhibit in the afternoon.
More images of the Blue Spine installation are available on Flickr, or you can watch a slideshow below.
Shauna spoke to Radio Scotland’s Book Cafe about the Blue Spine project – broadcast on 28th June, it’s available for listening on the BBC iPlayer until the end of this week.
Photographs by Alan Dimmick.
