The Travelling Bookshop #5: Mim and the Vicious Vendetta

Publisher details

Authors
Cheryl Orsini, Katrina Nannestad
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Children’s Fiction
Released
06 March, 2024
ISBN
9781460716786

The Travelling Bookshop #5: Mim and the Vicious Vendetta

Synopsis

The right book might just change your life ...

Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy.

Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they're needed most ... the place where the perfect book will find its way home.

Now Mim has arrived in wonderful Venice, city of canals, palaces, bridges, boats and ... quarrels. Gondolier battles, cat-nappings and laundry theft are just the beginning. The Magnifico family and the Forte family are at war.

Mim knows they're here to help the feuding families. To show them a better way to behave. To bring an end to the vicious vendetta.

If only Mim could find each of them the right book. If only they'd all stop reading the wrong books.

The lively new adventure from award-winning author Katrina Nannestad and beloved illustrator Cheryl Orsini.

Cheryl Orsini
About the author

Cheryl Orsini

Cheryl Orsini is the much-loved illustrator of The Fairy DancersThe Tales of Mrs Mancini and The Magic Bookshop. She has illustrated more than thirty children's books, and her work regularly appears in magazines and exhibitions.

Books by Cheryl Orsini

Katrina Nannestad
About the author

Katrina Nannestad

Katrina Nannestad is an award-winning Australian author. Her books include We Are WolvesThe Girl Who Brought Mischief, the Girl, the Dog and the Writer series, the Olive of Groves series, the Red Dirt Diaries series, the Lottie Perkins series and Bungaloo Creek.Katrina grew up in country New South Wales in a neighbourhood stuffed full of happy children. Her adult years have been spent teaching, raising boys, perfecting her recipe for chocolate-chip bickies and pursuing her love of stories. She now lives near Bendigo with her family and an exuberant black whippet called Olive

Books by Katrina Nannestad

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                1. Edmund White says:

                  I really enjoyed the latest instalment of The Travelling Bookshop—it captures how books can be both journeys and destinations in themselves. The way Mim’s vendetta unfolds feels clever and layered, turning what seemed a simple narrative into something richer. I also found an interesting resource on Wowfare reviews that might be useful for anyone looking into unconventional travel‑adjacent narratives. The author’s blend of place, plot and emotion gives this bookshop series a warm, adventurous feel. It’s definitely a story worth following for anyone who loves reading about discovery and setting.