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The White Octopus Hotel
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  • Published: 28 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804957080
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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The White Octopus Hotel

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Paperback
6 Oct 2026
Tr. Paperback
28 Oct 2025
Hardback
28 Nov 2025
EBook
28 Oct 2025
Audiobook
28 Oct 2025
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From critically acclaimed author of The Winter Garden, Alexandra Bell, comes this new brilliant whimsical fantasy novel.

The White Octopus Hotel follows Anna, an art valuer, who is asked by an old man to value a strange ornamental white octopus as his dying wish.

As she investigates, she follows its trail to the wreck of a glamourous art deco hotel, once known for a collection of magical artefacts.

Anna manages to track down a key, but when she uses it, she is transported through time to the White Octopus Hotel as it was during its heyday in the 1930s and is caught up in a scavenger hunt. Here, Anna will find the key to unlocking her family's mysterious past, and a passionate love story with a young artist.
  • Published: 28 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804957080
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

Praise for The White Octopus Hotel

Effortlessly weaves mystery, romance, and a hint of magic into a captivating tapestry of love, tragedy, and time.

Cassandra Clare, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sword Catcher and The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Beautiful and bittersweet . . . The convincing, emotional love story, lavish settings, and a wealth of spooky side characters make this sing.

Publishers' Weekly

An exquisite, fantastical puzzle box of a novel in which love, art, and magic are inescapably bound up with the trauma of childhood loss and war.

Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love

The White Octopus Hotel is not like anything you’ve ever read before. It’s a completely fresh, brilliantly imaginative way of welcoming us, with all our fear, grief, and guilt, into a fabulous, unpredictable, enchanting world where love is the magic that transforms us all.

Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Summer Light on Nantucket