The second volume in the ground-breaking Library Trilogy,
following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.
We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we
want to be true.
Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each
other's reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable
foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover her book if she's to
return to her life. While Evar's journey leads him outside into the vastness of
a world he's never seen, Livira's destination lies deep inside her own writing,
where she must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which
they were written.
And all the while, the library quietly weaves thread to
thread, bringing the scattered elements of Livira's old life – friends and foe
alike – back together beneath new skies.
Long ago, a lie was told, and with the passing years it has
grown and spread, a small push leading to a chain of desperate consequences.
Now, as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence, it
threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has
chosen its champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they
must fight for what they believe, or lose everything.
The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure,
discovery, and romance, but it's also a love letter to books and the
places where they live. The focus is on one vast and timeless library, but the
love expands to encompass smaller more personal collections, and bookshops of
all shades too.
Mark Lawrence's book 'The Book That Held Her Heart' was a
Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-04-07.
About the Author
Mark Lawrence is married with four children, one of
whom is severely disabled. His day job is as a research scientist focused on
various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence. He
has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. At one point
he was qualified to say 'this isn't rocket science ... oh wait, it actually
is'.
Between work and caring for his disabled child, Mark spends
his time writing, playing computer games, tending an allotment, brewing beer,
and avoiding DIY.
