Fiction

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – July 2024

”What are you looking for?” So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recommendation to help them find it. We meet five visitors to the library, each at a different crossroads, from a hopeful young manga artist to a mother facing demotion at work – they all go to the library to find that special book only she can find for them.  //  Discuss in the Fiction reading group  //  

What You Are Looking for is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Paperback

The Bookshop by the Loch

Julie Shackman
The Bookshop by the Loch
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – June 2024

Their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He's turning into a great white shark, and has less than a year left to live as a human…  An extraordinary novel of love, loss, hope and happiness, Shark Heart explores the shapes that love takes, in all its many forms, and asks us to ask ourselves: what makes us human? Praised by none other than Anthony Doerr as ”a fantastical, original and beautifully written novel”.   // Discuss in the Modern Fiction reading group  //  

Shark Heart

Emily Habeck
Shark Heart
Paperback

The Seven Year Slip

Ashley Poston
The Seven Year Slip
Paperback

Bellies

Nicola Dinan
Bellies
Paperback

Modern Fiction Book of the Month – May 2024

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, the residents tend to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to unspool her memories, the obituarist listening to her is sceptical. Stories of captivity, friendship, murder, assumed identities and spying. A life that moves from WWII Indonesia to Busan during the Korean war; from cold-war Pyongyang to a Protestant church in China. The adventures are so colourful and various, at times so unbelievable. Surely they can’t all belong to the same woman. Can they?  // Discuss in the Modern Fiction reading group  // 

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

Mirinae Lee
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
Paperback

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Paperback

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