The Binding: The most captivating novel of 2019
always said that books were more than words on paper; they were portals to other places, other lives.
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I shaved long, flat strips from the bones of her legs. Plaiting sinew and tendon, I stretched muscle into interwoven pages and bound them with flax. I made the bow of these, setting the fibres and grains of her tissue in opposition, the raw arc congealing, twisting, and shrinking into its proportion of purpose. I removed her unused womb and placed
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Barbara Erskine • The Ghost Tree: Gripping historical fiction from the Sunday Times Bestseller
IN THE DARKNESS, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.