The Pope's Bookbinder

"Entertaining, moving, informative, intelligently hopeful: I know of few other books like this one to warm the cockles of a booklover's heart." Alberto Manguel "For anyone who loves books too wellwho lusts after them, lives in them, mainlines themDavid Mason’s memoir will be a fix from heaven. Heartful, cantankerous, droll, his tales of honour and obsession in the trade gratify the very book-love they portray. An irresistible read." Dennis Lee "An atmospheric, informative memoir by a Canadian se