The Librarians of Rue de Picardie
- Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1918 / 1987
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book… 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from...
- 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
- 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): 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
The Library of Unrequited Love
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Moden
One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and...
- 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...
The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
- Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Scotland
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pen and Alice, childhood best friends from Toronto, are in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own reasons. Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something...
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