The Songlines was the book that crowned Bruce Chatwin’s unconventional but brilliant literary career. In it, he merges stories of his childhood and of his restless wanderings around Africa, fascinating theories on early man’s development and, of course, his passionate evocation of the invisible lines that criss-cross Australia, sacred to the Aborigines and along which they passed their “dreamings” about the world’s creation.

Winner of the Hewit Prize for the most Interesting use of Leather in the Competion.

The 2011   Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition exhibition will run from Saturday 26 November 2011 until Sunday 22 January 2012 at the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

A fun rebinding of a classic text from 1943 on the identification of nests and eggs.

The front cover is formed from a section of a tree branch, and the nest made from leather scraps trimmed and shaped.

The back cover is natural calf leather with embossed lines.

Another fantasy  book, sewn onto cords  and then  attached to a central wooden branch core acting as the spine.The book is attached to the  supporting “shoe” by a small peg