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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist
£12.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780857529121 | ISBN 10: 0857529129
THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams. 'I definitely want to visit ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593101544 | ISBN 10: 0593101545
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarka ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781728238593 | ISBN 10: 1728238595
Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following a librarian whose quiet life is turned upside down when a priceless manuscript goes missing. Soon she has to ask: what holds more secrets in the library — the ancien ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529107425 | ISBN 10: 1529107423
The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, th ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474605922 | ISBN 10: 1474605923
Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Besieged by government forces since 2011, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by bombs and missiles, and shot at by snipers. But while the streets above echoed with ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529104776 | ISBN 10: 1529104777
For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world – and the most dangerous. 'It wasn’t an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poo ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241330234 | ISBN 10: 0241330238
In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole. Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole f ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780008126650 | ISBN 10: 0008126658
Two tales of a city: The historical race to reach one of the world’s most mythologized places, and the story of how a contemporary band of archivists and librarians, fighting to save its ancient manuscripts from destruction at the hands of al Qaeda ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781476777412 | ISBN 10: 1476777411
To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean’s Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journe ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241974599 | ISBN 10: 0241974593
A richly inventive new collection of stories from Ali Smith, author of How to be both, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize and the Costa Novel Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Why are books so very powerful? What do t ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447274711 | ISBN 10: 1447274717
Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku is an archivist of his mother. He catalogues traces of her life and waits for her to return home. Bobby thinks that he's been left to face the world alone until he meets lonely single mother Val and her daughter R ... more
View book details£14.95 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780500517772 | ISBN 10: 0500517770
Boats, camels, phone boxes, rail stations, hotels, pre-fabs, pop-ups, pubs, peoples palaces and your own back garden welcome to the libraries of the future. Books and book culture are triumphantly alive across the globe, in out-of-the-way ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780224089524 | ISBN 10: 0224089528
Audrey Niffenegger's two novels, The Time Traveller's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry, have made her one of the most popular writers in the world. She is also the author of two extraordinary novels-in-pictures, The Three Incestuous Sisters and The Adve ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444715248 | ISBN 10: 1444715240
When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780300151305 | ISBN 10: 0300151306
Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on books and reading, has taken up the subject of libraries. Libraries, he says, have always seemed to me ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780007177424 | ISBN 10: 0007177429
The new novel from the author of March and Year of Wonders takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure. When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her ... more
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