Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

£9.99

Fiction

Paperback

9780008478674

Published by HarperCollins Publishers

Published September 2022

Books > Fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for a distant exoplanet, decades from now.

A single copy of an ancient text – the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land – provides solace, mystery, and the most profound human connection to these five unforgettable characters.

Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Zeno, Seymour, and Konstance are dreamers and misfits, on the cusp of adulthood, struggling to survive and finding resourcefulness and hope in the midst of peril.

Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway | 9780241714904

Karla’s Choice

Nick Harkaway

£22.00

Gliff by Ali Smith | 9780241665572

Gliff

Ali Smith

£18.99

The Party by Tessa Hadley | 9781787335554

The Party

Tessa Hadley

£12.99

A Spring of Love by Celia Dale | 9781914198946

A Spring of Love

Celia Dale

£9.99

The Vegetarian by Han Kang | 9781846276033

The Vegetarian

Han Kang

£9.99

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk | 9781804271087

The Empusium

Olga Tokarczuk

£12.99