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6 book trails

  • Location: Anywhere there is a basement

The Light of the Fireflies

2000s: A boy lives with his family in a basement….

  • Location: Venice

The Floating Venice Bookshop

2025: Can a bookshop bring two hearts together?

  • Location: London, Kinshasa

Where You Go I Will Go

1980s, 2004: A novel exploring familial legacies and queer lives.

  • Location: Republic of the Congo, Kisangani / Storyville

First Blood

1964: A moving fictionalized account of Nothomb’s own father,

  • Location: England, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Attic Child

1907 and decades later : Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a secret.

Featured Book

Ravenglass

1700s: Kit Ravenglass grows up in a house of secrets.

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