The book-makersA celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY

leaving a super-void

the world over

masterminded by a middle-class art student raised in the church

nostalgic pleasure and a connection with the wonders of nature

Fancy playing a game of charades where all of the books

Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands

address and general aura

This is also a love story

weirdly hidden from view

In the late 1970s an extraordinary document came to light

and three remarkable lives - all connected by a single drop of water