The first time I have come across a book written originally in Catalan, this is a classic that deserves to be much better known. Natalia is a young woman from Barcelona who enjoys her job at a bakery but gives it up to marry Quimet shortly before the outbreak of the...
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...
"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...
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...