The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature The scent of just-crushed rosemary

The scent of just-crushed rosemary and trailing bay leaves lingers softly on the skin

Elaine Risley

pit the locals against one another

Keep this book to benchmark the country's progress on that pathway

John Murray PressISBN: 9781473695993Extent: 272 pages

The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien #literature The scent of just-crushed rosemaryWhy did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time? Lina and her ailing father have taken refuge at an enclave called the Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Lives of Voyagers encyclopaedia series. In this mysterious and shape shifting building, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her unusual neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth