Rabat – The Grammy-winning pop star Dua Lipa has launched “The Manifesto Library,” a collection of banned books inside Livraria Lello bookshop in Porto, Portugal.
The release came as part of the new international book festival “BABELL – City of Books” that holds 100 disallowed books in various countries.
Dua Lipa planned to build a home for writers and readers after launching “Service95 Book Club” in 2023 which is a platform that recommends a book each month and presents Dua´s interviews with the featured authors.
The selected books explore four key themes: power, control, voice, and memory, including Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Reginald Dwayne Betts´ “Felon” alongside selected works from Kae Tempest and Salman Rushdie.
The British-Albanian singer-songwriter expressed through the Bookclub Instagram page her passion and profound love for reading, recognizing how it opens her eyes to opinions and worlds beyond her own experiences.
Francisca Pedro Pinto, Head of brand at Livraria Lello said in a statement “For 120 years, Livraria Lello has been built on a simple conviction: the book is a technology of freedom. The Manifesto Library grows from that belief”.
