The Memory Bookshop

Song Yu-jeong author Shanna Tan translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:12th Mar '26

Should be back in stock very soon

This hardback is available in another edition too:

The Memory Bookshop cover

Spellbinding and uplifting, the perfect new novel for book lovers and fans of heartwarming Korean translated fiction for 2026

THE KOREAN SENSATION

For lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away…

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If you're lost, you'll find The Memory Bookshop

Where the shelves are endless. The books, strangely familiar. And where memories are bound in pages.

When Jiwon cautiously crosses the threshold, she's met by Manager K and offered no explanation, only a mysterious hourglass and a rare opportunity: to travel back to three chapters of her life.

But returning to the past isn't without risk. In exchange, Jiwon has to give up time in her future.

As she wanders between the shelves, the bookshop humming with memories and regrets, she must ask herself: can the past truly be rewritten? Or does the real magic lie in the life she's yet to live?

Warm, wise and full of wonder, The Memory Bookshop is a story about the power of books to carry us home.

Reader Reviews:
'If you’ve read and loved Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, then The Memory Bookshop is one book you need to add to your TBR'
'This is a gentle, emotional read that explores memory, loss, and healing in a way that feels both personal and universal. Definitely worth picking up if you’re in the mood for something soft, reflective, and quietly magical'
'Both heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Memory Bookshop is a tender and comforting read that may just make you re-evaluate your own relationships with those closest to you'

ISBN: 9780008742850

Dimensions: 204mm x 135mm x 22mm

Weight: 260g

192 pages