The binding / Bridget Collins.
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TextPublisher: London : The Borough Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 438 ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0008288593; 9780008288594 (tpb); 9780008272111 (hbk); 0008272115Subject(s): 1800-1899 | Secrets -- Fiction | Memories -- Fiction | Memories -- Fiction | Bookbinding -- Fiction | Bookbinders | Bookbinding | Books and reading | Magic | Memory | Social classes | Bookbinders - Fiction | Bookbinding - Fiction | Memory - Fiction | Books and reading - Fiction | Magic - Fiction | Secrets -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Bookbinders -- Fiction | Books and reading -- Fiction | Magic -- Fiction | Memory -- Fiction | Social classes -- England -- Fiction | England | Great Britain | Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Alternative histories (Fiction). | Alternative histories (Fiction). | Fantasy fiction. | Historical fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Fantasy fiction. | Fiction. | Alternative histories (Fiction). | Alternative histories (Fiction). | Fantasy fiction. | Historical fiction. Additional physical formats: ebook version: No titleDDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: PR6103.O4467 | B56 2019Summary: Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. If there's something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it. THE BINDING is an unforgettable, magical novel: a boundary-defying love story and a unique literary event.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F COL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42100060933B |
Scheduled to be published December 2018.
Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a Bookbinder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. If there's something you need to erase, he can assist. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it. THE BINDING is an unforgettable, magical novel: a boundary-defying love story and a unique literary event.
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