Returns is a collection of two short stories.
The first is called Returns (8,000 words). It looks at the journey of a single book outside the library and the journey of two librarians (Yute is one of them) sent to recover it. It's a story about varying ways different people interact with the book. When people say, "Did we read the same book?" there's a truth behind that question and I examine it here.
The second story is About Pain (6,000 words). Here the tale concerns the interactions of just two people (Clovis is one of them) with a particular book, and how what they take from the novel changes over the course of their lives. When we consume a book we may find between those covers a very different story from the next person, but more than that, when we come back to it ten years later, twenty years, thirty ... we find that the more powerful a book is, the more its contents will have changed.
Here's the cover art from the great Tom Brown.
You can buy it as prints:
A4: https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/wentworth-in-the-library-a4-print-1
A3: https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/product/wentworth-in-the-library-a3-print
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UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CTYNQGBX
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207589471-returns
