COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
120 Pages, 9 x 11.25
Formats: Cloth
Cloth, $39.95 (US $39.95)
Publication Date: November 2016
ISBN 9780224097024
Rights: US
Penguin Random House UK (Nov 2016)
Jonathan Cape
The Bind charts the rise and fall of Egret Bindings, once the most prestigious firm of bookbinders in London. In 1910 brothers Guy and Victor Egret take on an ambitious commission: a deluxe, jeweled binding of a collection of poems, A Moonless Land. It proves to be a moment of hubris. The work triggers their ruin, watched by the disapproving spirit of their father, Garrison Egret. A darkly humorous tale of sibling rivalry and creative one-upmanship, The Bind shows once again that William Goldsmith is an incomparable storyteller and a marvelously inventive artist.
"Takes the reader to another world. . . . The Bind is about dreams, deception, disaster and redemption as well as bookbinding. . . . Goldsmith’s palette is muted but evocative, and his characterisation playful, the nods, winks, panic and confusion of his characters mixing engagingly with winding staircases, vast bookcases, toiling minions and antique tools of the trade." —Guardian