Twenty-four books that do not exist.
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The Lamp Inspector
Odile Marrow
A municipal inspector audits every streetlamp in a city that has forgotten what night is for.
FictionMysteryShelf A3 -
Salt Atlas
M. Oyelaran-Quist
Forty-one poems drawn as coastlines, each one redrawn by the next tide.
PoetryNatureShelf B1 -
Four O’Clock Weather
Perrin Halloway
Essays written in the dead hour, on insomnia, bread ovens and the radio shipping forecast.
EssaysSleeplessShelf B4 -
A Field Guide to Small Hours
Ione Takabe
Moths, foxes, night buses: a naturalist’s catalogue of everything awake after midnight.
NatureSleeplessShelf C2 -
The Recto Problem
Wilhelmina Dray
Two archivists find the same letter, one on each side of the paper, telling opposite stories.
FictionShelf A1 -
Ink for Beginners
Casimir Ferrow
A comic cookbook in which every recipe is also a small crime.
GraphicCookeryShelf D2 -
Nine Tides to Haverlow
Sunniva Ostrander
A ferry that only runs when the moon is below the horizon, and the nine people aboard.
FictionNatureShelf A5 -
Quiet Machines
Dr. Aurelio Benn
How clocks, compasses and kettles taught us to trust devices that do one thing well.
ScienceEssaysShelf C4 -
The Night Librarian’s Almanac
Thea Lindqvist-Roe
A year of after-hours notes: what gets returned, what gets lost, who comes in to get warm.
EssaysSleeplessShelf B2 -
Meridian Soup
Bao-An Delacroix
Broths from twelve time zones, translated by a cook who never left her kitchen.
CookeryTranslatedShelf D1 -
What the Moth Knows
Linnea Quarrier
Short poems for the long wait between a light going on and someone arriving.
PoetrySleeplessShelf B3 -
The Ledger of Unsent Letters
Hester Vandemar
A dead-letter office clerk starts answering the mail that nobody collected.
FictionMysteryShelf A2 -
Orbit of a Teacup
Mirela Atwood-Sen
Gravity, tides and stirring: a graphic essay in which every panel is a cup of tea.
ScienceGraphicShelf D3 -
Paper Dawn
Kofi Aldermere
Translated from an invented language, a novel told entirely through shop-window signs.
FictionTranslatedShelf A4 -
Notes Toward a Lighthouse
Rowan Tidewell
Fourteen short pieces about keeping one light on, written by a keeper of none.
EssaysNatureShelf C1 -
The Sleepless Cartographer
Ludovic Maren
A mapmaker who cannot sleep draws the city as it looks to the people who are awake in it.
FictionSleeplessShelf A6 -
Bread, Salt, Dark
Ottilie Brandvold
The night baker’s handbook, with a long chapter on why dough rises when nobody watches.
CookeryEssaysShelf D4 -
Spine Weather
Yusra Pellingham
Poems arranged by shelf order: each book on the wall lends one line to the next.
PoetryShelf B5 -
An Inventory of Echoes
Gideon Marsh-Avery
Rooms, tunnels, stairwells: a measured survey of how places answer back.
ScienceEssaysShelf C3 -
The Last Tram Home
Priya Okonkwo-Lund
Twelve strangers share a final tram, and each tells the story of how they came to be on it.
FictionTranslatedShelf A7 -
Moonwork
Tess Calloway-Brune
A wordless graphic novel about the people who clean office towers between midnight and dawn.
GraphicSleeplessShelf D5 -
Seven Kinds of Dusk
Anselm Vireo
A sequence of seven long poems, one for each way the light leaves a valley.
PoetryNatureShelf B6 -
The Quiet Crimes of Ada Rook
Fenwick Alder
A retired night nurse solves small neighbourhood mysteries without leaving her armchair.
MysteryFictionShelf A8 -
How Clocks Learned to Lie
Beatrix Sorrel
A short, illustrated history of daylight saving, railway time and the hour that doesn’t exist.
ScienceGraphicShelf C5
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