fiction about bookish things (bookselling, libraries, publishing, printing, conservation, etc) primarily via twitter (twitter.com/wynkenhimself/status/1411715062889422854), so cannot vouch for many of these
novels about books Public
Created and curated by sarah
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The blind assassin by Margaret Atwood
More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story …
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Pale fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Everyman's library)
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an …
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
4 stars
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
