The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina (Bonnier Books, 2025)
Fiction
Newly published is The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina (ISBN: 9781786583116, hardback). Set on the Japanese island of Teshima, this is a gentle story of loss, loneliness and forging new bonds between Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, whose mother has just died, and eight-year-old Kenta, a child who wanders like a shadow around Shuichi's house.