- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1914
A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW1
‘Your job is to bind the books, not read them.’ When the men of Oxford University Press leave for the Western Front, Peggy, her twin sister Maude and their friends in the bookbindery must shoulder the burden at home....
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, an excellent trivia team and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller’s search for his lost love. Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books and literature – in particular the golden age of Shakespeare, Jonson and Marlowe – The Bookman’s...
- Location(s): Europe, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Mid 18th Century
In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what...
- Location(s): Denver
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Nothing is as permanent as it appears… Denver, 1962 Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence....
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Max—an elderly Paris bookstall owner—is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent...
- Location(s): Bristol
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE SETTING When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Renaissance
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings – the dazzling handiwork of the city’s artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers. At a...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘A remarkable portrait, with deftly woven accounts of weddings and journeys, books and bookselling, relations and squabbles, firmly anchored by pleasing details about food and customs, all set against the backdrop of a derelict city.
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