Today’s in-progress shots of this year’s bound books are from maker @Katehollandbook who has worked in collaboration with fellow @db_bookbinding_uk member Derek Hood to bind the cover of Shuggie Bain by #2020BookerPrize shortlisted author, @douglas_stuart. Kate shares the process behind the binding design below: ‘The main inspiration for the design is the housing estate Sighthill in Glasgow where we first meet Agnes and Shuggie, the pebble dash and blues and greys of the high rise buildings, and on the top floor Agnes leans out of her window gazing down on the carpet of Glasgow. On the back cover elements of black and white for Shug with the red light of his receding taxi cab. Over both loom the colliery wheels of Pithead depicted in a myriad of gold dots. Inside Elizabeth Taylor, Agnes’s heroine and touchstone, watches over a Sighthill walkway whilst a gilded beer can stain lies opposite.’ The winner of the #2020BookerPrize will be announced as the culmination of our winner cere...