If any of you make it to South Africa this summer (or should I say “winter”), the National Library is hosting an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible - which is this year. Not only is the KJB the most printed book in history, it was also the first book read in space by the Apollo 8 astronauts in 1968. The National Library’s first copy of the Bible was given to it by Prince Albert, son of Queen Victoria when the library opened in the mid-1800s.

Among the curiosities, a tiny Bible, the size of a pinky fingernail and a shorthand Bible.