Murdoch’s library up for sale

The Beeb Is Reporting Novelist Dame Iris Murdoch’s personal collection of almost 1,000 books will go on sale for between £125,000 and £150,000 on Thursday.

The books are being sold by the novelist’s widower, Professor John Bayley, who said it was “painful” to sell his late wife’s library but he had no room for them in his Oxford home.