The Bookbinder's Secret by A. D. Bell An unusual and captivating story about an apprentice bookbinder in Oxford in 1901.Rare for the times, a young woman builds her trade as a bookbinder while also helping at her father's bookshop. She has a good reputation as a binder and is offered a commission and she comes across a burned book that doesn't seem quite right. On further investigation she discovers a letter stitched in the binding. It is only part of a letter and she guesses that more will be in the other books by this author. And [...]
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