Dinner with Joseph Johnson: books and friendship in a revolutionary age; Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world; Speaking volumes: books with histories: Dinner with Joseph Johnson: books and friendship in a revolutionary age, by Daisy Hay, London, Chatto & Windus, 2022, 384 pp., $33.90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-7847-4018-4; Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world, by Irene Vallejo, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2022, 464 pp., $62.90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-5933-1889-8; Speaking volumes: books with histories, by David Pearson, Oxford, Bodleian Library, 2022, 240 pp., $62.90 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-8512-4562-8 - Steele, Colin (Journal of the Australian Library & Information Association, 2023)