Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose invention of moveable metal type was to change the written word for ever and alter the course of history itself. Johann Gutenberg died 60 years later, robbed of his business, his printing presses and, so he thought, of his immortality.
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Blake Morrison has been a journalist, literary editor (Independent on Sunday), poet and successful memoirist. He still writes regularly for the Independent on Sunday and Observer. Author of bestselling memoir about his father, And When Did you Last See Your Father? and As If about the Bulger case. This is his first novel.
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