The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip WilliamsWhat is lost when knowledge is withheld? In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of going to Oxford University, but for most of her life she has been told her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile,

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revealing a fascinating side of her personality that often remains hidden from the public Never one for false sentiment

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drawing on his own years in a USSR prison camp and laying bare the perils of totalitarianism ( Financial Times )

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he prefers to stay home with a book

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Readers will laugh

A smog has spread

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He loses his job