Booker Shortlist Bindings

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world. Every year six Fellows of Designer Bookbinders each bind one of the six shortlisted titles. These bindings are then presented to the authors on the night of the Booker award ceremony. In the short period between shortlist announcement and the award ceremony, the binders must read, design and produce a hand bound fine binding. A process which might normally take three months or more has to be telescoped into as many weeks, but it is this which makes the commission such an interesting one. Made even better if the book you have bound is announced the winner.