The Grandest Bookshop in the World

Pearl and Vally Cole live in a bookshop. And not just any bookshop. In 1893, Cole's Book Arcade in Melbourne is<br/>the grandest bookshop in the world, brimming with every curiosity imaginable. Each day brings fresh delights for<br/>the siblings: voice-changing sweets, talking parrots, a new story written just for them by their eccentric father.<br/>When Pearl and Vally learn that Pa has risked the Arcade - and himself - in a shocking deal with the mysterious<br/>Obscurosmith, the siblings hatch a plan. Soon they are swept into a dangerous game with impossibly high stakes:<br/>defeat seven challenges by the stroke of midnight and both the Arcade and their father will be restored. But if they<br/>fail Pearl and Vally won't just lose Pa - they'll forget that he and the Arcade ever existed.