From The Times:
The popularity of Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton is waning as they have slipped from the list of authors who are clocking up more than one million library loans a year.
Nationwide library figures published today show that Catherine Cookson, the doyenne of traditional romance, has maintained her position as the most borrowed author for the 19th year running. She achieved more than three million loans, with The Thursday Friend, her story of a longstanding friendship threatened by jealousy, topping the adult fiction list.
A decade ago, Dahl, author of irreverent children’s books, and Blyton, whose prolific output included Noddy and the Famous Five, were in sixth and seventh places respectively on the top 12 list . . .
More. Still more on the report from the London Evening Standard.
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