Library Book Returned 65 Years Late

By Dianna Dilworth 

What’s the longest you’ve ever held on to a library book? Hopefully less time than Sir Jay Tidmarsh.

The eighty-two year-old UK man checked out a book from his school library 65 years ago and only recently returned it. He paid the library a £1,500 fine to make up for his overdue book.

The Guardian has the scoop:

Sir Jay Tidmarsh, 82, came across the long-forgotten copy of Ashenden by W Somerset Maughan as he cleared out his shelves. The former businessman opened the cover and spotted the stamp of his old school inside, which he had left in 1949.