The Library at the Edge of the World
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 19th century
The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Faith’s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings...