Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his ten-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book and...
"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 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...
Did you know that before beginning his acclaimed Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, Ruiz Zafón wrote several books for young adults? As he writes in his preface, Marina is the final one he completed before embarking on The Shadow of the Wind, and it is a book that...