“Trestle tables are strewn with everything from well-thumbed copies of Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize winner, to a pristine biography of Sigmund Freud. Children sit on the grass listening to storytellers. William Orbit plays from a portable sound system. An upright coffin with the words ‘RIP Barnet Libraries’ on the side leans against the tent. Here, on a patch of green in an entirely unassuming part of north London, the ‘People’s Library’ is in full swing.”