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The Liberation

The Liberation
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1945

The Liberation is set in Italy in 1945 as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated country and Italy’s population fights to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate – her father is dead, her mother has...

The Librarian

The Librarian
  • Author(s): Salley Vickers
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

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...

The Librarian of Basra

The Librarian of Basra
  • Author(s): Jeanette Winter
  • Location(s): Basra
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

This is the true story of Alia Baker, written for children, who saved the books from the main library in Basra when war broke out in 2003. Told for children it conveys the value of books and reading, set,...

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq

The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq
  • Author(s): Jeanette Winter
  • Location(s): Basra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

“In the Koran, the first thing God said to Muhammad was ‘Read.'”* –Alia Muhammad Baker Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books....

The Library

The Library
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Warwickshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lonely bookworms. An unexpected friendship. A library that needs their help. Teenager Tom has always blended into the background of life. After a row with his dad and facing an unhappy future at the dog food factory, he...

The Library at the Edge of the World

The Library at the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Felicity Hayes-McCoy
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After divorcing her cheating husband, 51-year-old Hanna Casey finds herself living back home in the Irish countryside with her overbearing mother. Having Hanna lived a sophisticated life in London while she was married, she has to reaccustom herself to...

The Library Book

The Library Book
  • Author(s): Susan Orlean
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Looking back to 1980s

After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morning of 29 April 1986: who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library,...

The Library Murders

The Library Murders
  • Author(s): M R Mackenzie
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alyssa Clark is about to find out that reading really can be murder. She thought her new job in Thornhill Library would be safe and uneventful. Boring, even. But on her first day at work, a masked gunman storms...

The Library of Heartbeats

The Library of Heartbeats
  • Author(s): Laura Imai Messina
  • Location(s): Kamakura, Teshima
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still...

The Library of Musical Instruments

The Library of Musical Instruments
  • Author(s): Jung-hyuk Kim
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The second short-story collection by Kim Jung-hyuk, the author of Penguin News, features a total of eight short stories, including Syncopation D which won the 2nd Kim You-jeong Literary Award in 2008. They represent the many sounds sampled by...

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