Smell : The Tale of a Fading Sense - Bjorn Berge Publication Date:01/07/2026 Luna McNamara's exquisitely written debut

Luna McNamara's exquisitely written debut will appeal to fans of Madeline Miller

�internationally�bestselling author of�The Priory of the Orange Tree`The Rainshadow Orphans�shimmers with wondrous worldbuilding and sublime writing

'One of the most perfect books I've ever read' NPR'A piercing

while a nameless narrator cycles through the discarded nametags of sacked colleagues

a young girl namedEmine is married off to a man she hardly knows

Smell : The Tale of a Fading Sense - Bjorn Berge Publication Date:01/07/2026 Luna McNamara's exquisitely written debutThe sense of smell is often linked to the dark, the antisocial, the primitive the very opposite of modernity and progress. Today we live in an almost odourless world, where everything is reduced to images. Yet smell plays a vital role in how we relate to others and our surroundings, forming our experiences and our memories. Tracing a history of smell from the first ancient cities, through medieval plagues and the Industrial Revolution to the present