Wizard's Bakery

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781035428045
  • Weight: 186g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jun 2025
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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The award-winning, shocking Korean bestseller, a unique tale where magic comes at a price.

'A story of choice and consequence. Unique and unorthodox' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'I didn't want to stop reading, I still don't want the story to be over' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Don't we all need a little magic in our lives sometimes?'

Open twenty-four hours a day in a quiet Seoul neighbourhood, The Wizard's Bakery seems like any other where you can buy bread, cakes, and pastries, with a somewhat grumpy man behind the counter.

For a desperate runaway teen, it's a refuge from a fractured home - until he discovers the pastries hold magic: madeleines to fix broken hearts, almond bars to unearth memories buried deep within and cinnamon cookies for your worst enemies.

But each of these items come with a warning: the power contained in the treats inevitably alters the order of the world and can produce dramatic consequences for those who consume them, consequences that need to be weighed carefully.

Under the stern eye of the bakery's gruff wizard and his mysterious blue-haired assistant, the boy learns about the responsibility that comes with working in a bakery where every bite comes with a price.

** Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang **

READERS ARE COMPLETELY BEWITCHED BY THIS MAGICAL TALE:
'A very profound story with a lot to take away' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Absolutely charming and unexpectedly poignant' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
'Magic has never been so tempting' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Gu Byeong-mo was born in 1976 in Seoul. She studied Korean language and literature at Kyung Hee University, and worked as an editor. She made her literary debut with the novel Wizard Bakery (2009), which won the Changbi Prize. It became bestseller in Korea and was translated into many different languages. Her short story collection Hoping That It Wasn't Only Me (2015) received Writer of the Year Award and Hwang Sun-won Literary Award for New Writers.