The Binding

 8vo., navy blue publisher’s boards, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt to both covers and spine; all edges stained bright blue; decorative ‘marbled paper’ endpapers with integrated Ex Libris to ffep (remaining blank); together in the matching unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£12.99 to front flap) designed by Michael Alcaino; pp. [xi], 4-438, [ii]; the book very lightly bumped at spine tips, with ever-so-slight edgewear to the upper and lower edges of text block; near-fine in like dustwrapper, with just a hint of creasing to the edges. 

First edition. This copy signed by the author in black felt pen to the decorative title page. 

A wonderfully compelling and dark novel, and the author’s debut following a series of plays and books for young adults. At its centre, the novel stems around one key concept; the idea that by binding your deepest secrets, painful memories or treacherous acts into book form, they can be instantly forgotten. When the protagonist Emmett Farmer is sent to become an apprentice to the master binder, he makes a chilling discovery; that one of the books already has his name on it. 

Shortlisted for the Waterstones book of the year, one Goodreads reviewer writes “If I could bind my memories into a book, I would start with the time I spent reading this”. 

SKU: 1800162