When we reached passport control, we were told ’No books allowed - we can dispose for you - just pop them into this rubbish bag.’ We had the time, so we rushed back to the post office and posted them back to ourselves at home.
We moaned a lot about this and felt lost without a book for duration of our journey. I wondered what security risk a book might be. And just recently I remembered that The Book is a potential hiding place and has been used in many contexts as a place of concealment.
In Ian Fleming’s From Russia with Love, the villain hides a gun in a hollowed out copy of War and Peace. In the film Shawshank Redemption, a character hides a useful escape tool in a copy of The Bible. Research should find me some more examples.
In trawling the web I noticed that a book could serve as a useful iPod case and if you need to know how to hollow out a book to hide your jewellery etc then you only need to visit how2dostuff
PageToScreen - Concealed in a Book?.
