London bookshop offers prize of a lifetime: free books for the rest of your life

Library of a Lifetime award asks readers to nominate the title that means most to them, with a new book every month offered as the prize

Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet and Paul Beatty might be competing for the Man Booker prize and a £50,000 cheque if they win next month, but readers around the world are being offered the opportunity to vie for their own literary award – where the winner will “never have to buy a book again”.

Launched on Friday by independent London bookshop Heywood Hill to mark its 80th anniversary, the Library of a Lifetime award will give its winner “one newly published and hand-picked hardback book per month, for life, delivered anywhere in the world”.

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