The Bookbinder Of Jericho Shortlisted For BookPeople Book Of The Year
17 April 2024
BookPeople has announced the shortlists for the 20234Book of the Year Awards, formerly the Booksellers Choice awards, and Pip Williams' The Bookbinder Of Jericho has been nominated under the Adult fiction book of the year category.
The Bookbinder Of Jericho by Pip Williams
Published in large print in August 2023.
Oxford, 1914. When the young men are drawn away to fight, it is the women who must keep going. Twin sisters Peggy and Maude work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of studying - but is often reminded that her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, is extraordinary and vulnerable. She wants nothing more than what she has, and Peggy must watch over her.
When refugees arrive from devastated Belgium, it sends ripples through the community and the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future: one where she can use her intellect and not just her hands. But as war and illness reshape her world, it is love, and the responsibility that comes with it, that threaten to hold her back...