Check out this stunning video of Pip Williams hand-binding a copy of her new novel! ‘Your stitching is what will hold the story together’, Ma says to Peggy in The Bookbinder of Jericho. And so it is Pip’s own stitching that holds her story together.

Huge thank you to Peter Zajicek, Senior Conservator at the State Library of South Australia, who taught Pip the art of bookbinding so that she could accurately describe these processes in the novel – and now she has a gorgeous leather-bound copy made by her own hand to show for it.

The Bookbinder of Jericho is on sale now.