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Genevieve Cogman

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Genevieve Cogman got started on Tolkien and Sherlock Holmes at an early age, and has never looked back. But on a perhaps more prosaic note, she has an MSC in Statistics with Medical Applications and has wielded this in an assortment of jobs: clinical coder, data analyst and classifications specialist. Although The Invisible Library is her debut novel, she has also previously worked as a freelance roleplaying game writer. Genevieve Cogman’s hobbies include patchwork, beading, knitting and gaming, and she lives in the north of England.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 191,210 ratings · 18,985 reviews · 45 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 66,961 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Masked City (The Invisible Library, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 28,861 ratings — published 2015 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Burning Page (The Invisible Library, #3) 4.05 avg rating — 22,010 ratings — published 2016 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Plot (The Invisible Library, #4) 4.17 avg rating — 17,833 ratings — published 2017 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mortal Word (The Invisible Library, #5) 4.19 avg rating — 14,490 ratings — published 2018 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Chapter (The Invisible Library, #6) 4.17 avg rating — 11,652 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Archive (The Invisible Library, #7) 4.18 avg rating — 10,093 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Untold Story (The Invisible Library, #8) 4.30 avg rating — 8,584 ratings — published 2021 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarlet (Scarlet Revolution, #1) 3.61 avg rating — 4,059 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elusive (Scarlet Revolution, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 2024 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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upcoming Waterstones event

On Thursday 15th October, at 7pm, I’m going to be at Waterstones in Leeds, to discuss my just-released (I hope) new book, A Scholar’s Guide to Demonology and Other Dark Arts. Be there or be a rectangular object!

https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-genevieve-cogman-in-leeds/leeds

Other than that, the weather is, thank goodness, turning a bit cooler. Now we just need some rain. Lots

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Genevieve Cogman answered Ana Clara's question: Hi, I'm Ana from Brazil, love your books. I dont know anyone in my country that read this amazing book .I don', have anyone to talk about it.Ihave a question.The power of Language is in another language (like...a magic spell) or is in english? I'm asking this because i'm a linguistic student. And I'm doing a research, and that is killing me. I need to know 😱(english isn't my1°language srry) Hi Ana - thanks for reading my books. The Language is a particular language which only Librarians are able to speak or write - to anyone else it looks or sounds like their native language. It gets its power from the Library itself. (The question of w See Full Answer
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“The atmosphere of the place soothed her automatically; the rich lantern lights, the sheer scent of paper and leather, and the fact that everywhere she looked, there were books, books, beautiful books.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

tags: books, library

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“Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?'
Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

tags: fae, humour, illegal-actions

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“and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to shut the rest of the world out, and have nothing to worry about, except the next page of whatever she was reading.”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Invisible Library

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