The Binding - Blue Sprayed EdgesI wish I had written it Erin Kelly Imagine you could erase your grief. Imagine you could forget your pain. Imagine you could hide a secret. Forever. 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

It's time to send in a man as dangerous as the prey

only ninety of them mapped

But even the master detective cannot prevent tragedy when it inevitably arrives wielding Jarrells missing revolver

All brightened by her mischievous sense of humour

le Carr gives us a glimpse of a writer's journey over more than six decades

Kydd and Renzi experience all the horror of a major Fleet action

waylay their victims

mightier help will be required

I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit

then the novel is changing too

Nothing scares men like witchcraft

he seems like the answer to their prayers