This edition of Damon Galgut’s winning book ‘The Promise’ was created by @katehollandbook, a member of the Designer Bookbinders society. Kate says: “Underpinning this book, behind the themes of apartheid and racism, are the constantly returning motifs of the veld landscape, the grasses, the lightning, the koppie hill, the tree and I chose to bring this centre and front. A huge thunderstorm rolls over an expansive Pierneef landscape of the high veld grasslands. A lightning bolt hits a Pierneef tree, a pivotal event in the book, but also a symbol of the majority power of the white minority raining down on the black population, a people with insignificant power but deep roots. Inside the doublures feature a photograph by @gideonmendel (reproduced with his kind permission) from his series ‘The Struggle’: ‘after the funeral of a three-year-old child shot in the head by a policeman’s rubber bullet, angry mourners clash with the police near the family’s home. In this confrontation a woman f...