The Binding

I 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 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.

Literature & Fiction

Bridget Collins

Contemporary

The Borough Press

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 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.

It begins with a game. 
It ends with betrayal. 
From the Number 1 bestselling author of THE BINDING 
‘Another triumph’ ERIN KELLY 
‘Totally addictive’ JOANNA GLEN 
‘A rich delight’ SANDRA NEWMAN 
‘Just beautiful’ JOANNA CANNON 
‘Dizzyingly wonderful’ THE TIMES 
If everything in your life was based on a lieWould you risk it all to tell the truth? 
When Léo joined the Montverre academy he was a nobody, but he dreamed of winning its legendary Great Game. 
When Carfax joined, he was notorious: the son of a family renowned for their brilliance – and their madness. 
Their rivalry would end in tragedy. 
Years later, Léo returns to Montverre. Carfax is gone, but his sister is now the first ever female master of the Game. 
As secrets whisper in the walls, what will Léo do to win this time? 
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‘Another sumptuous act of imaginative world-building. . . . If you’re looking for an absorbing, transporting work of fiction -and why would you not be? – The Betrayals is just the thing . . . settle in, and enjoy getting lost in this captivating book’ OBSERVER 
‘More lavish magical escapism from the unit-shifting author of The Binding’ IRISH INDEPENDENT 
‘Brilliant… a captivating, imaginative tale’ WOMAN & HOME 
‘A storyteller of rare imagination… This intricate symphony of a novel is both a disturbing portrait of fascism and a soaring meditation on artistic expression’ MAIL ON SUNDAY

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Winter, with its unsettling blend of the cosy and the sinister, has long been a popular time for gathering by the bright flame of a candle, or the warm crackling of a fire, and swapping stories of ghosts and strange happenings.\nNow eight bestselling, award-winning authors - master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring this time-honoured tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding collection of new and original haunted tales.\nFrom a bustling Covent Garden Christmas market to the frosty moors of Yorkshire, from a country estate with a dreadful secret, to a London mansion where a beautiful girl lies frozen in death, these are stories to make your hair stand on end, send shivers down your spine and to serve as your indispensable companion to the long nights of winter.\nSo curl up, light a candle, and fall under the spell of The Haunting Season . . .\nFeaturing new and original tales from:\nBridget Collins 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding\nImogen Hermes Gowar 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock\nKiran Millwood Hargrave 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies\nAndrew Michael Hurley 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loney\nJess Kidd 
International award-winning author of Things in Jars\nElizabeth Macneal 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory\nNatasha Pulley 
Sunday Times bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street\nLaura Purcell 
Award-winning author of The Silent Companions

The Haunting Season: Nine Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

Andrew Michael Hurley

Laura Purcell

Natasha Pulley

Jess Kidd

Kiran Millwood-Hargrave

Imogen Hermes Gowar

Elizabeth Macneal

Literary

SPHERE

Палітурник

Мирослав Томащук

КСД

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Sichuan Literature & Art Publishing House

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