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The Bookshop Book

By Mark Lawrence
Series: The Library Trilogy
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An epic fantasy adventure through cosy, cluttered bookshops, set in the world of Sunday Times bestseller Mark Lawrence's groundbreaking The Library Trilogy. Bookshops have always been places where worlds collide. Places where ideas make war, where cultures meet and mate. Frederick 'Red' Archer is hanging on... Read More
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An epic fantasy adventure through cosy, cluttered bookshops, set in the world of Sunday Times bestseller Mark Lawrence's groundbreaking The Library Trilogy.

Bookshops have always been places where worlds collide. Places where ideas make war, where cultures meet and mate.

Frederick 'Red' Archer is hanging on at the edge of society, in the care of the state, when he wanders into the bookshop that will change his life.

Rose Penrose is watching the world from the other side of the page, exiled by an act of awful violence, and is now fleeing from story to story whilst searching for her own.

The Great Smith has had a hand in both their pasts and an eye on their future. They are tools that he has fashioned for a greater purpose. Tools to be used up and discarded.

All that is certain is that a story has them all in its jaws. And that it is about to bite.

Series: The Library Trilogy

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    The Bookshop Book
    An epic fantasy adventure through cosy, cluttered bookshops, set in the world of Sunday Times bestseller Mark Lawrence's groundbreaking The Library Trilogy. Bookshops have always been places where worlds collide. Places where ideas make war, where cultures meet and mate. Frederick 'Red' Archer is hanging on at the edge of society, in the care of the state, when he wanders...
    By Mark Lawrence
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    $2999
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    Out 27 Oct 2026
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    The final volume in the The Library Trilogy, following The Book That Wouldn't Burn and The Book That Broke the World. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its champions and set them on the board. The fate of an infinite library hangs on one book, a book that holds the power to break the unbreakable. In the...
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    All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written. The greatest story can reach the stars... This is the start of an incredible new journey from the internationally bestselling author of Prince of Thorns, in which,...
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  • The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
    All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written. The greatest story can reach the stars... This is the start of an incredible new journey from the internationally bestselling author of Prince of Thorns, in which,...
    By Mark Lawrence
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ISBN: 9780008800413

Publisher: Unknown

Format: Paperback

Date Published: 13 October 2026

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Weight: 250g

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