The Bookman

Lavie Tidhar

Jan 2025 · The Bookman Histories Book 1 · JABberwocky Literary Agency, Incorporated

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In a 19th century unlike our own, the shadowy assassin known as the Bookman moves unseen. His weapons are books; his enemies are many. And when Orphan, a young man with a mysterious past, loses his love to the sinister machinations of the Bookman, Orphan would stop at nothing to bring her back from the dead.

In The Bookman, World Fantasy Award winner Lavie Tidhar writes a love letter to books, and to the serial literature of the Victorian era: full of hair-breadth escapes and derring-dos, pirates and automatons, assassins and poets, a world in which real life authors mingle freely with their fictional creations – and where nothing is quite as it seems.

"Pulls off the impossible." – Locus

"Skillful, clever and highly enjoyable." – SFX

" The Bookman is a delight, crammed with gorgeous period detail, seat-of-the-pants adventure and fabulous set-pieces." – The Guardian

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Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction ( Maror, Adama and Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom winning Central Station (2016). He has also written comics ( Adler, 2020), children's books such as Candy (2018) and The Children's Book of the Future (2024), and created the animated movies Loontown (2023) and The Radio (2024). He is a former columnist for the Washington Post and a current honorary Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at the American International University in London. His work has been translated into multiple languages. He lives in London.

Lavie Tidhar's work encompasses literary fiction ( Maror, Adama and Six Lives), cross-genre classics such as Jerwood Prize winner A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) and World Fantasy Award winner Osama (2011) and genre works like the Campbell and Neukom winning Central Station (2016). He has also written...

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