Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books, Eric Marshall White

Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books, Eric Marshall WhiteNew Hardback Johannes Gutenberg is famous as the inventor of Europes first typographic printing method, and his life and legacy have long fascinated a wide audience. Due to scant and vague fifteenth century documentation, however, Gutenbergs career has long been obscured by derivative storytelling, competing agendas and scholarly guesswork. This new biography removes these barriers to retell his story directly, through his pioneering work:

who was enslaved and shipped from his home village in East Africa to India

underpinned by an urgent environmental message

a witness at the scene

A lone ship journeys south

Mustard endpapers

With astonishing illustrations on every page by Gavin Scott

the goal being the ‘cultural caretaking of the bomb-battered population and our soldiers’

advocating for women's rights or adapting fairy tales to process an abusive relationship

Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld

The Witch-ionary distils her years of knowledge into a fun and informative format that respects that the modern witch is a busy witch

Designed by Eric Heyman as part of his British Birds collection

it was books that kept her afloat