Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the center of London, The
House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of
financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head
publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and chief editor Drusilla
focused on finding a supposedly priceless but famously missing
manuscript, there is hardly anyone left to steer the ship. Young
Mortimer Blackley, assistant editor, charts the descent of the House in
his logbook as it lurches from one failure to the next. Will mysterious
Russian buyers, lurking in the wings, stop the ship from sinking at
great cost to all? Or will Drusilla find the legendary Daybreak
Manuscript and save the day?