Why a Booktrail?
21C: There are certain books that if you read them, they give you special powers to access people’s thoughts and feelings…In a bookshop in Copenhagen, there is a society of book lovers who know this secret well.
The Library of Shadows
What you need to know before your trail
On a dark and unassuming Copenhagen street there is a mysterious old bookshop. Selling second hand novels, the shop is a maze of staircases, shelves, ladders and books which whisper if you walk past. Well, if you know how to access that gift. for not everyone can. And those who do, must use this skill in the right way.
Jon inherits the shop from his father when the latter is brutally murdered. Then another tragedy strikes. Is the bookshop the target and if so why? Just what does it contain within its cellar?
A literary treasure far more powerful than Jon could ever have imagined.
Travel Guide
There are many superpowers that we at the booktrail would like but what if your superpower was not flying or being invisible but the ability to speak out loud and change or enhance the way someone experienced a book? What if you could tap into that energy that books give out to its readers for your own ends?
Well – get yourself off to Copenhagen for such a bookshop with these powerful books exists and believe us you will never see books on shelves in the same way again?
“Jon glanced down at the book. It looked like any other book, a stack of pages and letters and words, without a hint of the life and wealth of colours he had just experienced. He closed the book and turned it in his hands, examining it.”
Enter the bookshop and allow your finger to glide over the spines. Hear anything? Go to the library and see even more books, look at who is reading what and wonder why.
The streets of Copenhagen seem dark and cobbled, and the home of special readers and book clubs with secrets. All around, the nature of power, organised sub government shows a darker side to this Copenhagen. Equally the realisation that racism is also within its society shows a darker side to the city and places a reality against the backcloth of supernatural goings on.
Copenhagen sadly doesn’t have a Libri de Luca but we think it should and if it did it would be a bit like the classic Books and Company. Oh could this be the inspiration and the company is actually that of the books themselves? Take a moment to sit here and enjoy a coffee and maybe purchase a copy ofFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Or the Rose by Umberto Eco.
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