The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives, Adam Smyth

The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives, Adam SmythNew Paperback The Book Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and American Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin.

Come nightfall

There were no definite answers for almost 100 years

This volume of Virginia Woolf's diary has a slower pace: she is finishing The Waves and wrestling with the shape of her next novel (The Years)

000 kilometres and through eight decades

budget conscious and approachable without being too time consuming

with disruptive new parties on the far left and far right

A quest for belonging through the forsaken landscapes of Britain

a dedicated naturalist

Where do they sleep

large and small

it explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons

But the wildlands are exactly that: wild