"This is a novel to lose oneself in, and it promotes the sort of reading experience we remember from childhood - of complete absorption into a fantasy world" Irish Times Published in 2017, this was to be Carlos Ruiz Zafón's last novel before his untimely death in June...
The third in Ruiz Zafon's Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, the first two installments being The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game. Although each work within the cycle presents an independent, self-contained tale, they are all connected through characters and...
Set in Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling Eliza Sommers, a spirited, sparky and ambitious romantic who becomes embroiled in a forbidden love affair with the...
Set in Normandy just before the outbreak of the Second World War, The Watcher in the Shadows tells the story of a mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, and fourteen-year-old Irene whose mother has taken the job as housekeeper in the house which...
It's 1932, Ben and his friends are due to leave the orphanage which has been their home for sixteen years. Tonight will be the final meeting of their secret club, in the old ruin they christened The Midnight Palace. Then Ben discovers he has a sister - and together...
"The Angels's Game draws with relish on all the conventions beloved of Wilkie Collins and Dickens...weaving them into something entirely original and surprisingly moving that holds the reader's expectations until the final twist." The Observer In an abandoned mansion...
1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city to an old wooden house on the coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen: Max discovers a garden filled with eerie statues; his sisters are plagued by...
"One who reads is worth two who don't." Our Riches celebrates the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who in 1935, at the age of twenty, founded Les Vraies Richesses, an iconic Algerian bookstore/printing press/library. Charlot, famous for discovering...
At the Bar Lume, in a small coastal resort in Northern Italy, between shots of espresso and hands of cards, four old-timers and Massimo the barman while away the time chatting, arguing and theorising about the murder of a young woman in their town.They analise the...
The first in the famous Neapolitan quartet of novels, in My Brilliant Friend we meet Elena and Lila for the first time as they navigate the beginning of their lifelong friendship, the poverty of 1950s Naples, and the inexplicable behaviour of adults. A literary...